Los Angeles born guitarist and composer Anthony Wilson is one of the leading jazz musicians of his generation, known for a wide-ranging body of musical work that moves effortlessly across genre boundaries.
With fourteen albums to his credit, Wilson’s first recording, for a nine-piece band, received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Recording, and was followed by the critically acclaimed “Goat Hill Junket” and “Adult Themes.” His album Power of Nine was included in the New Yorker’s roundup of that year’s top-ten jazz albums. The celebrated “Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art” documents, in music and video, the story of Wilson’s collaboration with master luthier John Monteleone on a suite of music written specifically for Monteleone’s masterpiece “Four Seasons” quartet of archtop guitars. Recent albums “Frogtown,” “Songs and Photographs,” and “The Plan of Paris” combine Wilson’s deep jazz roots with an equal commitment to the art of storytelling through songcraft. The recent albums “Collodion,” a mostly improvised and electronic recording, and “Hackensack West,” a quartet date featuring Wilson alongside longtime colleagues John Clayton, Gerald Clayton, and Jeff Hamilton, have demonstrated the breadth Wilson’s artistic vision.
The guitarist of choice for singer/pianist Diana Krall for nearly two decades, Wilson has also performed live, arranged for, and recorded with a diverse roster of artists that includes Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Melody Gardot, Barbra Streisand, Leon Russell and Aaron Neville, as well as with jazz legends Ron Carter, Charles Lloyd, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Bennie Wallace, and Wilson’s father, the renowned trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Gerald Wilson.
