2 Days in April is a double album by a free jazz quartet
consisting of saxophonists Fred Anderson and Kidd Jordan, bassist William
Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, documenting two 1999 concerts at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at
Cambridge.
Fred Anderson (1929 –2010) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago. Anderson's playing was rooted in the swing music and hard bop idioms, but he also incorporated innovations from free jazz.
Anderson was also noted for having mentored numerous young musicians.
Critic Ben Ratliff called him "a father figure of experimental jazz in
Chicago". Writer John Corbett referred to him as "scene caretaker,
underground booster, indefatigable cultural worker, quiet force for good."
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