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Anthony E. Nelson, Jr. and Increase will celebrate coming together musically and spiritually through jazz.
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Anthony Nelson, Jr. is a multi-talented musical artist who, skillfully plays the saxophone, flute, clarinet, and bass clarinet, to any style of music, is also a composer and arranger who ignites fans with melodic originality. Nelson fuses together jazz’s classic tranquility, gospel’s spirituality, funk’s rougher edges and neo-soul’s undeniable velvet ease to produce a sound unlike anything on today’s shelves.
Born with the gift of music, Anthony began his notoriety as a member of Cantoris, the prestigious boy’s choir of Plainfield, New Jersey. At age 11, he started with the alto saxophone but would begin study of the flute and clarinet and go on to be mentored by Radam Schwartz at the Jazz Institute of N. J. Nelson would later be featured on Schwartz’s album, Magic Tales. This would be the beginning of many times Anthony would gain wisdom from great people or institutions of higher learning, from the University of the District of Columbia, under master arranger Calvin Jones, to William Paterson University, under Gary Smulyan and Vincent Herring.
Anthony Nelson would go on to play with an array of phenomenal figures such as Billy Hart, John Hicks, Don Braden, Regina Carter, Ojays, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Faith Evans, “Joe,” the Ray Charles Orchestra, Henry McKenzie Davis, James Weidman, Ralph Peterson, the Count Basie Orchestra, Cab Calloway Orchestra, Cecil Brooks III, T.S. Monk, and Steve Turre.
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