Bassist Jeffrey Charles Anderson was born in Lawrence Kansas and moved to St. Louis Missouri when he was 8 years old.  He is a graduate of the University City High School’s class of 1975, where he was admitted to Who’s Who among American High School Music Students. Jeffrey plays saxophone, bass, and piano.

 

 In 1976, he was honored with the University of Wisconsin Jazz festival Award for Outstanding Saxophone Soloist in a Combo and in the Big Band category.  A 1982 graduate of Morris Brown College, with a BA in Music Performance, he has gone on to teach various summer camps at Kirkwood High School and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.  Jeffrey has also taught in the Sunrise Conservatory Program sponsored by the University City School District, and taught at the University of Missouri St. Louis. He was a graduate assistant at the University of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville, where he received his Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance. In 1996, Jeffrey was Musician, Music director and Composer for (“For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf”) The People’s Light & Theater Company St. Louis MO. 

 

 Jeffrey has performed with many artists such as Peabo Bryson, The Dells, Jamey Abersold, Marlena Shaw, Spanky Wilson, Lou Donaldson, Dakota Station, Jean Carne, Vanessa Rubin, Hugh “Peanuts” Whalum, Kirk Whalum, Phil Woods, Johnny O’Neal, John Hicks, Mary Stallings, and many talented local musicians in various cities in the United States and abroad. 

 

 Jeffrey is now married to his wife Edie of 4 years, he’s part owner of Nu Millennium Studios and High Resolution Records in St. Louis MO.