Anita Eccleston - So It Goes with Confidence
Anita's influences range from Amy Winehouse to Brad Turner, and from Radiohead to Dolly Parton.
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On the Rhythm Changes Podcast, Anita Eccleston covers her whole artist’s journey to date. Her influences range from Amy Winehouse to Brad Turner and Radiohead to Dolly Parton.
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We talked about:
- Gardening
- Anita’s parents were both musicians who got real jobs
- Growing up in Kamloops and going to Vancouver to buy Anita‘s first trumpet
- Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music programs
- Early figures to look up to like Ingrid Stitt and Metalwood
- What it feels like to finally hit a jazz lick and feel like a young improviser
- Coming to terms with your rock band breaking up in your youth
- The enduring influence of Brad Turner
- Going to McGill with saxophonist Al McLean, bassist Graham Clark, trumpeter Andy King, Jim & Chet Doxas, Matt Warnock, Anna Ruddick, and a member of Arcade Fire
- How Montréal tested Anita’s confidence
- Going DIY in the MySpace era after moving back to BC
- Generational tropes
- The case for what Dan Mangan and Side Door Access are doing
- Anita’s gig at the 2021 Vancouver Jazz Festival
- The Socratic confidence Anita has now that she didn’t have in her early twenties
- The making of Anita’s projects
- Songwriting insights from Gordon Lightfoot, Dan Mangan, and Emily Carr
- The constraints of jazz music culture when it comes to how much rehearsal time you get
- Our favourite Radiohead albums
- Being in on the Radiohead song “True Love Waits” long before it came out on an album
- Anita’s gigs with her twin sister Liz under the name Girl A Girl B
- Our longing to enjoy jazzfest
- Wanting to crossover the genre on Anita’s upcoming music
- The downfall of PledgeMusic
- What she would do for merch and funding on her next project
- Playing with Kerry Galloway at one of Anita’s last gigs before the pandemic
- What if BC had a Banff Centre
- Brasstronaut and Sam Davidson bringing out Anita
- Her favourite number for her upcoming jazzfest gig
- the total number of her all-time gigs she has listed on her website