Celebrating Fred Anderson is an album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, which was recorded live in 2015 at Chicago's Constellation and released on Nessa.

He takes the AACM's emphasis on creating new, original music as immutable gospel, and it is a major sign of respect that Mitchell has paid homage to the great Chicago tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson on this bracing new effort.

"[2] Derek Taylor of Dusted Magazine wrote: "Recorded five days after what would have been the Chicago saxophonist's 85th birthday, Celebrating Fred Anderson accomplishes exactly that through a program of challenging concert music that parallels the spirit if not letter of its dedicatee... Anderson would no doubt be honored by his old friend's observance and the continued tenacity of his creative endeavors.

"[4] Jazz Word's Ken Waxman commented: "Confirmed is the abiding power of, plus the continued sonic research involved in creating, the sounds that Anderson and Mitchell helped nurture.

"[5] Clifford Allen, writing for The New York City Jazz Record, noted that "Mitchell's music may appear to be a methodical extension of Coltrane's scalar improvisations and while playing different instruments... and with the elder Anderson drawing from the bebop of Gene Ammons and Charlie Parker, their similarities are more than apparent."