The KCCK Featured Album for September is “What Next?” from Russ Anixter’s Hippie Big Band. The arranger, orchestrator, and bandleader has developed his orchestral expertise through more than three decades as a Broadway music copyist. His ensemble is built around a close circle of longtime collaborators who emerged from the pandemic together. The band’s second disc balances structure and spontaneity, humor and sophistication, demonstrating Anixter’s vision of a jazz band that thrives on transformation, color and collective energy. Purchase