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Will Anderson (background, alto saxophone) and his twin brother Peter Anderson (foreground, tenor saxophone) on a New York City street near the High Line, photographed for the cover of *Peter and Will Anderson Featuring Jimmy Cobb* (Outside In Music, 2020). This is a joint photograph of both twins, not a solo portrait of Will alone; no free-licensed or joint photograph showing Will individually was found (see below). The same underlying photograph, framed from the opposite figure, is used as the portrait for the sibling profile `492-peter-anderson-profile`; this is disclosed rather than hidden, since it is genuinely the only clean, high-resolution photograph of either twin found in this research. Album cover art (not a CC-licensed artist photo) - used as the only available image of the artist, joint with his twin brother, since no free-licensed photograph of either twin exists. Copyright holder: Outside In Music (label) / the duo, per the label's own press materials. Used here for identification purposes as the site's established fallback practice, per spinoff-profile-build-spec.md. — Outside In Music, official press release and artist/release page - https://www.outsideinmusic.com/artistsandreleases/2020/5/15/peter-and-will-anderson-peter-and-will-anderson-featuring-jimmy-cobb (hosting the label's own "hi res JPEG" of the cover art, downloaded directly by this build; the same page also hosts a separate, more tightly cropped promotional image of the same photograph, "Anderson Oct 2014 Promo 62 cropped.jpg," used only to double-check identification, not as the file adopted here)
Will Anderson was born March 27, 1987, in Washington, D.C., ten minutes after his identical twin brother Peter, and the two were raised in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, attending Walt Whitman High School. Both were mentored locally by the saxophonist Paul Carr and by drummer and vibraphonist Chuck Redd, and while still in high school they toured the United Kingdom, performed on Capitol Hill, and appeared on television. At eighteen the brothers moved to New York for the Juilliard School, earning a Bachelor of Music (2005-2009) and a Master of Music (2009-2011) under Joe Temperley, Victor Goines, Frank Wess, Benny Golson, Kenny Washington, and Joe Wilder, and both held the Illinois Jacquet Scholarship in Jazz Studies from 2007 to 2009. During their undergraduate years the twins were selected from an international pool for Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program, including a residency of performances at the Kennedy Center. Discogs's own artist biography for Will specifically identifies him as the twin whose primary instruments are alto saxophone, clarinet, and flute, against Peter's tenor saxophone and clarinet, a division confirmed on session after session; press coverage has also noted that Will is the taller of the two by about an inch and a half, Peter having arrived ten minutes earlier.
Will and Peter made their recording debut as co-leaders with Correspondence (Smalls Records, 2012), a quartet date with three of their Juilliard mentors, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Ben Wolfe, and drummer Kenny Washington, singled out by Vanity Fair alongside new releases by Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter. The following year brought Music of the Soprano Masters (Gut String Records, 2013), on which the twins are joined by veteran soprano saxophonist and clarinetist Bob Wilber and by pianist Ehud Asherie, whose own Discogs artist page lists "Anderson Twins Sextet" among its group affiliations, the connection linking this profile to Asherie's. That sextet billing documents a real recorded unit: Asherie, Peter, and Will, with bassist Clovis Nicolas, drummer Kevin Dorn, and trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, self-released Celebrating the Music of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman (2010), the group's sole release. The brothers next recorded as the Peter and Will Anderson Trio with guitarist Alex Wintz on Reed Reflections (Gut String Records, 2014), reviewed by the Washington Post, then returned to full quintets on A Sax Supreme (SteepleChase LookOut, 2015), featuring Ken Peplowski and Grant Stewart alongside Asherie, and Deja Vu (Gut String Records, 2015), an all-originals record with drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath.
Alongside the recording career, the brothers created, produced, and starred in a series of off-Broadway shows at Manhattan's 59E59 Theaters built around specific songbooks and eras, among them Le Jazz Hot, The Count Meets the Duke, The Fabulous Dorseys, and Joy of Sax, eventually totaling eight sold-out runs; Le Jazz Hot was nominated for the 2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue, and the duo won a 2018 Bistro Award. The working group kept recording through the rest of the decade: Two Against One (Gut String Records, 2016); Clarinet Summit (SteepleChase LookOut, 2017), pairing the twins on clarinet with Ken Peplowski and the Cuban-born clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera; Blues for Joe (Gut String Records, 2017), dedicated to their late Juilliard mentor Joe Temperley and featuring guitarist Peter Bernstein and organist Pat Bianchi; and Wind Power (Gut String Records, 2018). After Temperley's 2016 passing, the brothers raised more than $25,000 to establish the Joe Temperley Juilliard Student Scholarship Fund and an accompanying tribute album.
Separately from the duo, Will built an individual career centered on New York's hot-jazz and swing revival scene: All About Jazz and SmallsLIVE both identify him, distinctly from Peter, as the lead saxophonist in Vince Giordano's Grammy-winning Nighthawks, the 1920s-and-'30s repertory big band whose work put Will on camera and on soundtrack in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, and the film Revolutionary Road, alongside Peter's own credit on the Boardwalk Empire soundtrack. Will has also performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, guitarist Frank Vignola, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant. His individually documented studio sideman work, distinct from the joint duo catalog, includes trombonist Emily Asher's Dreams May Take You (2012), on which Discogs credits "William Anderson (19)" alone on alto saxophone with no matching Peter credit; a 2012 "Appearance" credit on Baby Soda's Live at Radegast, playing clarinet in a hot-jazz septet with cornetist Bria Skonberg and trombonist Emily Asher; Wycliffe Gordon's film score Within These Gates of Mine (Blues Back Records, 2016), on which Will, credited as "William Reardon Anderson," plays alto saxophone in the Wycliffe Gordon Jazz Orchestra while Peter is separately credited on tenor and clarinet; and the Jill McCarron Trio's Jazz Motif (2021), reviewed by All About Jazz's Jack Bowers as opening with "Will Anderson's irrepressible alto saxophone" and featuring him again on flute, a credit belonging to Will alone with no Peter involvement found anywhere in this research. Both brothers, jointly credited as "Peter R. Anderson" and "Will R. Anderson" on reeds, are heard on Boardwalk Empire Volume 1: Music from the HBO Original Series (Elektra, 2011) with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, winner of the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
The duo's most recent studio album, The Best of Berlin (Arbors Records, 2025), is a 13-track program devoted to Irving Berlin, arranged throughout by Peter with Will on alto saxophone and clarinet; it followed Peter and Will Anderson Featuring Jimmy Cobb (Outside In Music, 2020), recorded July 23, 2018, with pianist Jeb Patton, bassist David Wong, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, the last surviving member of the Miles Davis rhythm section on Kind of Blue, released within days of Cobb's death in May 2020. Will's most recent individually documented sideman credit found in this research is on vibraphonist Chuck Redd's Painting With Blue (Dalphine, 2026), where he plays flute alongside guitarist Peter Bernstein and pianist Mike LeDonne, a session not shared with Peter. The brothers have appeared repeatedly on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, closing out their final appearance in 2016 with a duo reading of "Lotus Blossom" for Billy Strayhorn's centennial, and their ensemble has toured more than 40 U.S. states plus Brazil, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Both brothers remain active as teaching artists through Juilliard's Nord Anglia program, having lectured and given clinics at more than 100 schools and universities.
The New York Times called the twins "virtuosos on both clarinet and saxophone," and Will's share of that dual command, an alto voice paired with clarinet and flute, sits opposite Peter's tenor-and-clarinet role on nearly every joint recording since Correspondence (2012). His vocabulary was shaped directly by his Juilliard mentors, including Frank Wess and Benny Golson, and by direct contact with veterans Bob Wilber and Jimmy Heath, but Will's individual performing career leans further into pre-bebop repertoire than the duo catalog alone suggests: his standing chair as lead saxophonist in Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, a band built entirely around 1920s and '30s dance-band and hot-jazz repertoire, and his individually documented sideman work with hot-jazz specialists Bria Skonberg, Emily Asher, and Baby Soda place him squarely in New York's swing-and-Dixieland revival scene, distinct from Peter's more hard-bop-leaning individual credits (Loudon Wainwright III, the Harry Allen Orchestra). The joint working group's repertoire nonetheless runs the full range from 1920s and '30s dance-band and Tin Pan Alley material (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Irving Berlin) through swing-era small-group jazz and into hard bop, reflected in the "Hard Bop" and "Bop" style tags Discogs applies to Deja Vu, Blues for Joe, and Clarinet Summit, and the twins' original compositions on Deja Vu (2015) extend that same repertoire-conscious approach to newly written material.
- Correspondence (2012, Smalls Records) - the duo's debut as leaders, a quartet date with Juilliard mentors Kenny Barron, Ben Wolfe, and Kenny Washington, singled out by Vanity Fair alongside new Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter releases. Not found by verified Spotify album lookup.
- Music of the Soprano Masters (2013, Gut String Records) - with soprano saxophonist Bob Wilber and pianist Ehud Asherie, whose "Anderson Twins Sextet" Discogs group affiliation is the fact connecting this profile to Asherie's. Not found by verified Spotify album lookup.
- A Sax Supreme (2015, SteepleChase LookOut) - a quintet date with Ken Peplowski, Grant Stewart, and Asherie. Spotify - A Sax Supreme Listen
- Clarinet Summit (2017, SteepleChase LookOut) - the twins on clarinet alongside veterans Ken Peplowski and Paquito D'Rivera. Spotify - Clarinet Summit Listen
- Boardwalk Empire Volume 1: Music from the HBO Original Series (2011, Elektra), Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks - Will's Grammy-winning sideman credit (2012 Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media) with the working band in which he is individually documented as lead saxophonist.
- Jazz Motif (2021, Jill McCarron Trio, self-produced) - an individually credited, non-duo session; All About Jazz's review opens on Will's alto saxophone playing and features him separately on flute. Not found by verified Spotify album lookup.
- Peter and Will Anderson Featuring Jimmy Cobb (2020, Outside In Music) - recorded July 2018 with pianist Jeb Patton, bassist David Wong, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, released days after Cobb's death. Not found by verified Spotify album lookup.
- The Best of Berlin (2025, Arbors Records) - an all-Irving Berlin program with Will on alto saxophone and clarinet, every chart arranged by Peter. Spotify - The Best Of Berlin Listen
Will Anderson - Full Discography
Will Anderson's entire leader/co-leader catalog is recorded jointly with his identical twin brother Peter, as "Peter and Will Anderson" (or variant billings "Peter & Will Anderson," "Anderson Twins," "Peter and Will Anderson Trio"). Ten such releases are listed below under "As Leader / Co-Leader"; all ten are included since the catalog is not large enough to require curation. A separate "As Sideman" table covers Will's individually documented non-duo credits, which on Discogs are split across a second artist entity for him alone (detailed under "Where the sources disagree"). This file also lists the two additional group-billing entities relevant to the Ehud Asherie hub connection: the Anderson Twins Sextet and the Peter and Will Anderson Trio.
Verified against the Discogs API: Will Anderson main artist ID 4702790, plus his split entity "William Anderson (19)" (artist 8711920), and the group entities Anderson Twins Sextet (artist 14525002) and Peter And Will Anderson Trio (artist 15725166). Cross-checked against Wikipedia's "Peter and Will Anderson" discography, All About Jazz, and the duo's own site, peterandwillanderson.com.
Spotify links were found by targeted web search for each album title, then verified by reading each album's own embed payload for track count. Albums that could not be matched that way read "Not found by verified lookup" rather than being guessed at.
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As Leader / Co-Leader
| Album Title | Recording Date(s) | Release Date | Label | Catalog Number | Format(s) | Personnel | Role | Reissue History | Spotify | Buy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correspondence | Not stated | 2012 | Smalls Records | SRCD-0053 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone, producer), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone, producer), Kenny Barron (piano), Ben Wolfe (bass), Kenny Washington (drums) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Not found by verified lookup | - | Debut as leaders; named alongside new Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter releases in a Vanity Fair piece |
| Music of the Soprano Masters | Not stated | 2013 | Gut String Records | GSR 011 | CD | Will Anderson (saxophone, clarinet), Peter Anderson (saxophone, clarinet), Bob Wilber (soprano saxophone, clarinet), Ehud Asherie (piano), Mike Karn (bass), Phil Stewart (drums) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Not found by verified lookup | - | Features Ehud Asherie, the hub this profile was spun off from |
| Reed Reflections | Not stated | 2014-02 | Gut String Records | GSR 016 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone, clarinet), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Alex Wintz (guitar); billed to the Peter And Will Anderson Trio | Co-leader (trio) | None found | Not found by verified lookup | - | Reviewed by the Washington Post. Discogs flags this release "Appearance" on Will's main artist page rather than "Main"; treated here as a co-leader trio date, consistent with how the sibling Peter Anderson profile treats the same release, since the billing and Wikipedia's own account both describe it as a co-led trio, not sideman work |
| A Sax Supreme | Not stated | 2015 | SteepleChase LookOut | SCCD 33122 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone), Grant Stewart (tenor saxophone), Ken Peplowski (tenor saxophone), Ehud Asherie (piano), Neal Miner (bass), Aaron Kimmel (drums) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Spotify - A Sax Supreme | - | With Ken Peplowski and Grant Stewart |
| Deja Vu | Not stated | 2015 | Gut String Records | GSR 020 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone), Jeb Patton (piano), Dave Wong (bass), Albert "Tootie" Heath / Phil Stewart (drums) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Not found by verified lookup | - | All-originals set; Discogs style tag "Hard Bop" |
| Two Against One | Not stated | 2016-05 | Gut String Records | GSR 021 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone, clarinet), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Alex Wintz / Felix Lemerle (guitar) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Spotify - Two Against One | - | |
| Clarinet Summit | Not stated | 2017-03-10 | SteepleChase LookOut | SCCD 33133 | CD | Will Anderson (clarinet), Peter Anderson (clarinet), Ken Peplowski (clarinet), Paquito D'Rivera (clarinet), Tardo Hammer (piano, uncredited), David Wong (bass), Kenny Washington (drums) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Spotify - Clarinet Summit | - | With Ken Peplowski and Paquito D'Rivera |
| Blues For Joe (Dedicated To Joe Temperley) | Not stated | 2017 | Gut String Records | GSR 026 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone), Peter Bernstein (guitar), Pat Bianchi (organ), Kenny Washington (drums) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Not found by verified lookup | - | Dedicated to their late Juilliard mentor Joe Temperley |
| Wind Power | Not stated | 2018-09 | Gut String Records | GSR 035 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone, clarinet, flute), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Felix Lemerle (guitar) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Spotify - Wind Power | - | |
| Peter And Will Anderson Featuring Jimmy Cobb | July 23, 2018, Trading 8's Studios, Paramus, NJ | 2020-05-15 | Outside In Music | OiM 2003 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone), Jeb Patton (piano), David Wong (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Not found by verified lookup | - | Released days after Jimmy Cobb's death; foreword by Benny Golson |
| The Best Of Berlin | Not stated | 2025 | Arbors Records | ARCD19494 | CD | Will Anderson (alto saxophone, clarinet), Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone, clarinet, arranger) | Co-leader with Peter Anderson | None found | Spotify - The Best Of Berlin | - | 13 Irving Berlin compositions; Peter arranged every number |
Related group entities (not additional leader releases)
- Anderson Twins Sextet (Discogs artist 14525002): Peter Anderson, Will Anderson, Ehud Asherie (piano), Clovis Nicolas (bass), Kevin Dorn (drums), Jon-Erik Kellso (trumpet). Sole documented release: Celebrating the Music of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman (self-released CDr, 2010). This is the group affiliation named on Ehud Asherie's own Discogs page and is the fact connecting this profile to his.
- Peter And Will Anderson Trio (Discogs artist 15725166): the billing used for Reed Reflections (2014), listed above under its own row rather than repeated here.
As Sideman (Will's individually documented credits)
Selected, not exhaustive. Discogs splits Will's own sideman credits across a second artist entity that resolves to the same person: "Will Anderson (7)" [4702790, carrying the joint duo catalog plus two individually billed "Appearance" credits] and "William Anderson (19)" [8711920, whose namevariations field also carries "William Reardon Anderson"]. This table merges both. Credits genuinely shared with Peter (both twins named in the same extraartists list) are marked; credits confirmed for Will alone, with Peter absent from the same release's credit list, are marked as well, since distinguishing exactly this was a core requirement of this build.
| Year | Project (Leader) | Title | Label | Catalog | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (Various Artists) | Boardwalk Empire Volume 1: Music from the HBO Original Series | Elektra | Not confirmed | Reeds | Joint credit: "Peter R. Anderson" and "Will R. Anderson" both credited on reeds; won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media |
| 2012 | Emily Asher | Dreams May Take You | Not on label | Not confirmed | Alto Saxophone | Will-only credit: only "William Anderson (19)" appears in the release's extraartists list; Peter is not credited on this release |
| 2012 | Baby Soda | Live At Radegast | Not on label (self-released) | none | Clarinet | Will-only credit: "Will Anderson (7)" on clarinet in a hot-jazz septet with Bria Skonberg (trumpet), Emily Asher (trombone), and Kevin Dorn (drums); Peter is not credited on this release |
| 2016 | Wycliffe Gordon (Wycliffe Gordon Jazz Orchestra) | Within These Gates Of Mine (An Original Film Score And Soundtrack) | Blues Back Records | Not confirmed | Alto Saxophone | Will credited as "William Anderson (19)" / "William Reardon Anderson"; Peter separately credited (tenor saxophone, clarinet) as "Peter Reardon Anderson," a distinct Discogs entity confirming the twins are individually, not jointly, billed on this session |
| 2021 | Jill McCarron Trio | Jazz Motif | Self-produced / CD Baby | none | Alto Saxophone, Flute | Will-only credit, not found in Discogs's own (empty) extraartists list for this release but confirmed by All About Jazz's June 27, 2021 review (Jack Bowers), which opens on Will's alto saxophone and separately describes his flute playing; no Peter involvement found in any source |
| 2023 | The Harry Allen Orchestra | With Roses | Triangle7 | Not confirmed | Clarinet | Joint credit: both Peter and Will credited on clarinet, alongside Grant Stewart and Harry Allen on tenor saxophone |
| 2026 | Chuck Redd | Painting With Blue | Dalphine | DR003 | Flute | Will-only credit: "Will Anderson (7)" alone on flute, alongside Peter Bernstein (guitar) and Mike LeDonne (piano, organ); Peter Anderson is not credited on this release |
Also documented but not tabled
- Screen and broadcast appearances found only in prose sources, not as standalone Discogs release credits: HBO's Boardwalk Empire and Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (on-screen and soundtrack work with Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, per All About Jazz and SmallsLIVE), Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (per All About Jazz), the film Revolutionary Road, and multiple appearances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. No Discogs release entry naming Will Anderson individually was found for the Maisel or Killers of the Flower Moon soundtrack albums; both franchises have their own "Various Artists" Discogs soundtrack releases, but none checked in this research lists Will Anderson (or any Anderson) in its credits, so these remain sourced to All About Jazz's and SmallsLIVE's prose biographies only.
- Standing performing affiliations not tied to a single dated release: lead saxophonist, Vince Giordano's Nighthawks; Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; Vanguard Jazz Orchestra; David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band; performing collaborations with guitarist Frank Vignola, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant (per All About Jazz and SmallsLIVE; none of these three has a jazzprofiles.com profile as of this writing).
- Juilliard-era student and campus recordings named in Wikipedia's joint "As Sidemen" discography for the two brothers together, none individually attributable to Will alone from the sources checked in this research: Juilliard Jazz Orchestra's Waltz Masquerade (M&I, 2009) and Above and Beyond featuring Benny Golson (Juilliard Jazz, 2007), Juilliard Jazz Ensemble's Blues in the Church (2009), and the Capitol Focus Jazz Band's Renewing the Tradition (Vol. 5, 2003; Vol. 6, 2005).
- Sharel Cassity's Just For You (2008) and Thomas Barber's Janus Bloc Snow Road (2009) are, per the sibling Peter Anderson profile's research, Peter-only Discogs credits (billed to "Peter Reardon Anderson"); listed here for completeness but explicitly excluded from Will's own table, since neither release names a Will Anderson entity in this research.
- Educational and outreach work: teaching artists through Juilliard's Nord Anglia program, clinics and residencies at more than 100 schools and universities, and the Joe Temperley Juilliard Student Scholarship Fund the brothers established following Temperley's 2016 death.
Where the sources disagree
- Discogs splits Will's individual sideman identity across two separate artist entities. "Will Anderson (7)" (4702790) carries his main-artist and duo/trio credits plus the Live At Radegast and Painting With Blue "Appearance" credits; "William Anderson (19)" (8711920), whose
namevariationsfield confirms "William Reardon Anderson" as a genuine middle name, carries the Dreams May Take You and Within These Gates of Mine credits. Neither page cross-references the other via Discogs's ownnamevariationsoraliasesfields; this profile traced the connection by cross-matching instrument (alto saxophone, clarinet, flute on every "Will"/"William" entity) and by the parallel split on Peter's side (a second and third entity, "Peter R. Anderson" and "Peter Reardon Anderson"), documented in the sibling Peter Anderson profile. - A same-named but unrelated Discogs artist entity, "Will R. Anderson" (artist 3749845), is a distinct historical namesake, not this profile's subject. Its release list is almost entirely 1903-1918 wax-cylinder and shellac recordings by an early-20th-century vocalist of the same name, decades before this profile's subject was born; the one 21st-century item on that page, a "Boardwalk Empire Volume 1" master entry, resolves via Discogs's own
main_releasefield to release 3148834, the same modern release already cited above and correctly credited to "Will R. Anderson" as this profile's subject. No other release from artist 3749845 is used anywhere in this profile or discography; this is a Discogs same-name collision distinct from, and in addition to, the "Peter Anderson (10)"/"Peter R. Anderson"/"Peter Reardon Anderson" split documented in the sibling profile. - "The Anderson Twins" (Discogs artist 3391481) is not Peter and Will Anderson at all. Per the sibling Peter Anderson profile's research, its sole listed release is a 1982 cassette on which "The Anderson Twins" appears only as a
TrackAppearancecredit for an unrelated act. Not used anywhere in this profile. - Discogs flags Reed Reflections (2014) as an "Appearance," not a "Main" credit, on Will's own artist page, despite it being a genuinely co-led trio date (billed to the Peter And Will Anderson Trio, reviewed as such by the Washington Post). Treated here as a leader/co-leader release, consistent with the sibling Peter Anderson profile's treatment of the same release, rather than trusting the Discogs role flag alone.
- Personnel could not be fully confirmed for several releases where Discogs supplies label, year, and catalog number but no (or only a partial) extraartists list: Correspondence, Two Against One (guitarist appears as both Alex Wintz and Felix Lemerle across different secondary sources; both are listed rather than one being silently dropped), and Deja Vu.
- Recording dates are almost never stated. Discogs supplies release years reliably from 2012 onward but a specific session date for only one release, Peter and Will Anderson Featuring Jimmy Cobb (confirmed independently via the label's own press materials as July 23, 2018).
- Catalog numbers for most of Will's individual sideman-only releases could not be confirmed from Discogs or any other source checked in this research (marked "Not confirmed" above).
- Peter Anderson - identical twin brother (older by ten minutes), co-leader of every duo, trio, and quintet recording in this discography, and a musician with his own separately documented individual credits (tenor saxophone and clarinet, arranger of The Best of Berlin, sideman dates including Loudon Wainwright III and the Harry Allen Orchestra) that this profile does not claim for Will.
- Ehud Asherie - pianist on Music of the Soprano Masters (2013) and A Sax Supreme (2015), and a member of the Anderson Twins Sextet (Celebrating the Music of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman, 2010), the group affiliation connecting this profile to his.
- Vince Giordano - bandleader of the Nighthawks, in which Will is individually documented as lead saxophonist, a standing chair distinct from the joint duo's own Grammy-winning Boardwalk Empire soundtrack credit (2011).
- Wycliffe Gordon - trombonist and leader of the Wycliffe Gordon Jazz Orchestra on the film score Within These Gates of Mine (2016), on which Will plays alto saxophone as an individually billed credit, separate from Peter's tenor/clarinet credit on the same release.
- Ken Peplowski - clarinetist and saxophonist on both A Sax Supreme (2015) and Clarinet Summit (2017).
- Grant Stewart - tenor saxophonist on A Sax Supreme (2015).
- Harry Allen - leader, arranger, and producer of the Harry Allen Orchestra's With Roses (Triangle7, 2023), on which Will plays clarinet, a joint credit shared with Peter.
- Emily Asher - trombonist and leader of Dreams May Take You (2012), on which Will alone (not Peter) is credited on alto saxophone.
- Jill McCarron - pianist and leader of Jazz Motif (2021), an individually credited Will Anderson session reviewed by All About Jazz.
- Chuck Redd - drummer and vibraphonist who mentored both brothers in Washington, D.C. before Juilliard, and leader of Painting With Blue (2026), on which Will alone plays flute.
- Jimmy Cobb - drummer and title collaborator on Peter and Will Anderson Featuring Jimmy Cobb (2020), recorded in 2018.
- Kenny Barron, Ben Wolfe, and Kenny Washington - the rhythm section, and Juilliard mentors, on the duo's debut Correspondence (2012).
- Joe Temperley - Juilliard mentor to both brothers; Blues for Joe (2017) is dedicated to him following his 2016 death, and the brothers established the Joe Temperley Juilliard Student Scholarship Fund in his memory.
- Official site: peterandwillanderson.com
- Spotify: Peter & Will Anderson (duo artist page)
- Discogs: Will Anderson (7), artist 4702790
- Discogs: Anderson Twins Sextet, artist 14525002
- Wikipedia: Peter and Will Anderson (birth date and place, education, Juilliard scholarships, Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead, joint career chronology, discography, awards)
- All About Jazz: Will Anderson biography (individual biography: lead saxophonist in Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, screen credits on Boardwalk Empire, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Revolutionary Road, collaborations with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Wynton Marsalis, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and Frank Vignola, Bistro Award, Drama Desk nomination)
- All About Jazz: "Jazz Motif," review by Jack Bowers, June 27, 2021 (confirms Will Anderson's individual alto saxophone and flute credit on the Jill McCarron Trio's Jazz Motif)
- SmallsLIVE: Will Anderson artist profile (individual biography distinct from the joint duo copy; venue and touring history, Vince Giordano's Nighthawks affiliation)
- SmallsLIVE: Peter Anderson artist profile (used only for comparison, to confirm the twins' individual biographies differ from each other and from the joint duo copy)
- Discogs: Will Anderson (7), artist 4702790 (official artist biography distinguishing Will's alto sax/clarinet/flute from Peter's tenor sax/clarinet, birth date, group affiliations, full "Main"/"Appearance" release list)
- Discogs: William Anderson (19), artist 8711920 (namevariations field confirms "William Reardon Anderson"; carries Will's individually billed Dreams May Take You and Within These Gates of Mine credits)
- Discogs: Anderson Twins Sextet, artist 14525002 (confirms the six-member lineup, Ehud Asherie included, backing the hub's own group-affiliation fact)
- Discogs: release 3148834, Boardwalk Empire Volume 1 (2011) (confirms "Peter R. Anderson" and "Will R. Anderson" both credited on reeds)
- Discogs: release 17240827, Emily Asher, Dreams May Take You (2012) (confirms "William Anderson (19)" alone on alto saxophone; no matching Peter credit)
- Discogs: release 18308233, Baby Soda, Live At Radegast (2012) (confirms "Will Anderson (7)" on clarinet)
- Discogs: release 17996548, Wycliffe Gordon, Within These Gates of Mine (2016) (confirms "William Anderson (19)"/"William Reardon Anderson" on alto saxophone, separate from Peter's tenor saxophone and clarinet credit)
- Discogs: release 28926886, The Harry Allen Orchestra, With Roses (2023) (confirms both twins credited on clarinet)
- Discogs: release 38204424, Chuck Redd, Painting With Blue (2026) (confirms "Will Anderson (7)" alone on flute; no Peter credit on this release)
- outsideinmusic.com: Peter and Will Anderson Featuring Jimmy Cobb press release (recording date and location, personnel, release date, and the cover photograph used for this profile's portrait)