Anders Griffen is a drummer, composer, and trumpet player from Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, New York. Griffen works in a range of contexts including folk, jazz, pop, improvised music, and modern dance theater.

Career

Griffen is known for his work with songwriters and jazz musicians, playing the drum set sensitively and quietly enough to accompany acoustic music. His first appearance on record was in 1997, a tribute to Charles Moffett entitled Vision Blue with tenor saxophonist, Frank Lowe

Frank Lowe

Frank Lowe was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone and then moved to San Francisco...

. Other notable artists that have sought Griffen’s accompaniment include Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor

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, Paleface, Jeffrey Lewis

Jeffrey Lewis

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 and Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson

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, and their “super-group,” The Bundles , and bands like Dufus

Dufus (band)

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 and Death to Anders

Death to Anders

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In recent years Griffen has formed a partnership with singer-songwriter Diane Cluck

Diane Cluck

Diane Cluck is an American singer and songwriter of intuitive folk. Although known as a solo performer, she has often collaborated with others, including a recent association with drummer Anders Griffen on tours in the US and UK....

. They perform as a duo and have toured the Pacific Northwest and the United Kingdom .

Reviews

• “Anders Griffen is a very different drummer than Moffett, far quieter and unobtrusive.” Derek Taylor, 2001
• "drummer Anders Griffen ... brings backing rhythm to the solo pieces with ghostly finesse ... Griffen’s technique is so understated and tailored to [the] music that sometimes it feels like he isn’t playing at all." Sam Wolby, 2010

External links

• http://www.andersgriffen.com/bio.html
• http://www.antifolkonline.com/AndersGriffen.html
• http://www.last.fm/music/Anders+Griffen
• http://andersgriffen.bandcamp.com/
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anders-Griffen/251395113638