Editing Ian Anderson (section)

===Later career===
Anderson already wished to start a solo career in 1980, when Jethro Tull was going to take a break after [[John Glascock]]'s death. He wrote the album ''[[A (Jethro Tull album)|A]]'' as a solo record, but had Jethro Tull's [[Martin Barre]] participating, and [[Dave Pegg]] on bass. Record company pressure forced the record to be released under the Jethro Tull name. His first official solo album was ''[[Walk into Light]]'', in 1983, in which [[Peter-John Vettese]] played an important role in the electronic direction of the music.

In the 1990s, he began working with simple bamboo flutes. He uses techniques such as over-blowing and hole-shading to produce note-slurring and other expressive techniques. Anderson said that around this time his daughter began taking flute lessons and noticed his fingering was incorrect, prompting him to relearn his extensive catalog with the right fingering.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://newsok.com/article/2447855/jethro-tull-flutist-reforms-technique/ |title=Jethro Tull Flutist Reforms Technique |date=12 November 1993 |access-date=1 April 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1995, Anderson released his second solo album, ''[[Divinities: Twelve Dances with God]]'', an instrumental work composed of twelve flute-heavy pieces pursuing varied themes with an underlying motif. The album was recorded with Jethro Tull keyboard player [[Andrew Giddings]] and orchestral musicians. Anderson released two further song-based solo albums, ''[[The Secret Language of Birds]]'' in 2000 and ''[[Rupi's Dance]]'' in 2003. In 2003, Anderson recorded a composition called "Griminelli's Lament", in honour of his friend, the Italian flutist {{ill|Andrea Griminelli|it}}.

[[File:Jethro Tull 5.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Anderson with Jethro Tull at London's [[Hammersmith Odeon]], March 1978]]

In 2011, with the end of Jethro Tull touring, and the question of his friend [[Derek Shulman]] (whatever happened to Gerald Bostock?),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/02/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-on-thick-as-a-brick-2-the-grammys-and-more/|title=Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson On Thick As A Brick 2, The Grammys And More - American Songwriter|work=American Songwriter|date=2 February 2012}}</ref> Anderson began to produce a sequel to ''[[Thick as a Brick]]'' (1972), titled ''[[Thick as a Brick 2]]'' or ''TAAB2'', was released on 3 April 2012. It is billed as being performed by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson instead of being a Jethro Tull album proper. Anderson toured performing both albums in their entirety. A trailer for ''TAAB2'' was posted on YouTube.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jZMCBEsZM| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/q7jZMCBEsZM| archive-date=17 November 2021 | url-status=live|title=Official TAAB 2 trailer|work=YouTube.com| date=31 January 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Anderson released a new album, ''[[Homo Erraticus]]'', in May 2014. He described it as a [[progressive rock]] concept album blending rock, folk, and metal music.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jethrotull.com/homo-erraticus/ |title=Homo Erraticus |website=Jethrotull.com |access-date=5 July 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122230913/https://jethrotull.com/homo-erraticus/ |archive-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> Peaking at No. 14 in the [[UK Albums Chart]] it is his most successful ever solo album.

In September 2017, Anderson announced plans for a tour to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of ''This Was'', and a new studio album in 2019. The band line-up includes Anderson, Hammond, John O'Hara, [[David Goodier]] (all musicians of Anderson's solo band since 2012),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jethrotull.com/musicians/ |title=Musicians |website=Jethrotull.com |access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gigantic.com/jethro-tull-tickets | title=Jethro Tull Tickets|website=Gigantic.com |access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref> and, since 2019, Joe Parrish,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.backgroundmagazine.nl/CDreviews/AlbionUkPryderi.html |title=Albion (UK) – Pryderi |website=Backgroundmagazine.nl |access-date=5 July 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618033115/https://www.backgroundmagazine.nl/CDreviews/AlbionUkPryderi.html |archive-date=18 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|author=Jethro Tull |author-link=Jethro Tull (band) |user=jethrotull |number=1190208519112450048 |date=1 November 2019 |title=We welcome Joe Parrish, a new member to the ranks of the great guitarists! |access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref> with Barre and [[Florian Opahle]] absent from the lineup.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jethrotull.com/florian-opahle-leave-jethro-tull-end-of-2019/ |title=Florian Opahle leaving Jethro Tull at the end of 2019 | website=Jethrotull.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202121858/http://jethrotull.com/florian-opahle-leave-jethro-tull-end-of-2019/ |archive-date=2 February 2021 |quote=Sad to have to say that “young” Florian Opahle is leaving us at the end of 2019 after 15 great years of recording, touring and travelling the world.}}</ref>

On 2 January 2018, Ian Anderson published a New Year post on jethrotull.com, including a picture of Anderson with the caption "IA in the studio working on a new album for release March 2019. Shhhh; keep it a secret..."<ref name="happynewyear">{{Cite web |url=http://jethrotull.com/happy-new-year-from-ian-anderson/ |title=Happy new year from Ian Anderson |access-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411181824/http://jethrotull.com/happy-new-year-from-ian-anderson/ |archive-date=11 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 1 June 2018, Parlophone Records released a new (50-track) career collection celebrating the Jethro Tull's 50th anniversary featuring all 21 Tull albums, named ''[[50 for 50]]''. In the notes of the ''50 for 50'' booklet it stated that the new album scheduled for 2019 (and later pushed back to 2020, then 2022) would be a solo record by Ian Anderson and not a new album by Jethro Tull.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.truemetal.it/news/intervista-jethro-tull-ian-anderson-112806-p2 | title=Interview: Jethro Tull |access-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105202808/https://www.truemetal.it/news/intervista-jethro-tull-ian-anderson-112806-p2 |archive-date=5 November 2019}}</ref> However, that turned out not to be true; the band released ''[[The Zealot Gene]]'', the first Jethro Tull studio album in 19 years (and the first with all new, original material in 23 years), on 28 January 2022.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://jethrotull.com/pre-order-jethro-tulls-new-album-the-zealot-gene/|title=Pre-order the New Jethro Tull album "The Zealot Gene"|publisher=[[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]]|access-date=15 January 2022}}</ref>