December 4, 2005 at All Souls at Sundown:

Wess "Warmdaddy" Anderson,
sopranino and alto saxophones

Wess Anderson (alto & sopranino saxophones) is a native of Brooklyn and began playing the saxophone at age 14. A member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1988, he also played lead alto for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra from 1992 to 2005. As a leader, Wess has recorded and released four solo albums: Warmdaddy in the Garden of Swing (1994), The Ways of Warmdaddy (1996), Live at the Village Vanguard (1998), and Space (December, 2005). He is professor of saxophone at Michigan State University and served on the faculty of the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies in 2001 and 2002.

This Evening's Poet: Pablo Neruda

One of the most influential poets of the Twentieth Century, Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize in 1971. The delights of his poetry—earthy, sensual, and transcendent—emerge in the recent collection Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon.