Downbeat Hall of Fame Scholarship student at, and Summa Cum Laude
Graduate of Berklee. Anderson has received the Outstanding Achievement
Award alongside fellow alumnus Alf Clausen and was named one of
Berklee's Fifty Outstanding Alumnus as part of Berklee's 50th
Anniversary celebration.
In 1973 Anderson became a member of Woody Herman's Thundering Herd and
spent the next five years touring as music director and chief arranger
for this legendary jazz band. After seven albums and tours with Frank
Sinatra & Tony Bennett as well performances with Joe Henderson, Charlie
Mingus, Chet Baker and many others, Anderson decided to settle into the
New York scene and soon found his niche as a studio arranger,
orchestrator and composer for television, film and the Broadway stage.
Since the late 1970s Anderson has written for Network and Cable
Television, Documentaries, Telefilms & Dramatic Series, Feature Films,
Broadway, Off Broadway and Radio City Music Hall as well as 100s of
commercials and albums.
He joined several world tours as a performer or musical director,
including Woody Herman's Thundering Herd, Charles Mingus, Joe
Henderson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Mel
Torme, Gerry Mulligan, and Chet Baker.