Jazz Articles about Anna Webber

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Album Review

GEORGE: Looking for Consonance

Read "Looking for Consonance" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 26, 2026

The thing about George--named after George Floyd--is that it allows drummer John Hollenbeck to do almost anything he likes. On the group's second release, Looking for Consonance, he blends elements of prog, avant jazz, pop, ambient, folk, noise and more into an intoxicating, sometimes inscrutable, whole. To abet him in the project, he has recruited an unconventional electro-acoustic lineup of reedist Anna Webber, the vocals and synthesizers of Sarah Rossy and Chiquita Magic, all unchanged from the debut.

Album Review

Miles Okazaki: Boomtown

Read "Boomtown" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 26, 2026

Come nel precedente, apprezzato Miniature America (Cygnus Recordings, 2024) il chitarrista e compositore Miles Okazaki è alla guida di una formazione di ben dieci elementi ma con una differenza non da poco, al posto delle tre voci femminili si raddoppiano contrabbasso e trombone e si aggiunge la batteria, riunendo alcuni dei musicisti più in vista della scena newyorkese. Così Boomtown prosegue nel processo creativo iniziato con l'album precedente che prevede l'utilizzo di ensemble di grandi dimensioni per dar forza e ...

Album Review

GEORGE: Looking for Consonance

Read "Looking for Consonance" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 5, 2026

John Hollenbeck has spent much of the past three decades blurring the boundaries between jazz, chamber music and improvisation. A Grammy-nominated composer and bandleader known for his work with the Claudia Quintet and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, he enters a new chapter with an electro-acoustic ensemble named after George Floyd. Its debut recording, Letters to George (Out of Your Head Records, 2023), introduced a socially-conscious aesthetic that Looking for Consonance further explores. Joined by saxophonist and flutist ...

Album Review

Phillip Golub: Partisan Ship

Read "Partisan Ship" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 31, 2026

In a lot off ways, it is a game of catch-up listening to Brooklyn pianist/improvisor/composer Phillip Golub once he kick-starts the oddly titled Partisan Ship into high gear with “Loyalty Oath," a piece of mad musical fiction that holds attention in place with its octopi rhythms and runaway melodies rushing in all at once. Partisan Ship is oddly titled because Golub, an unapologetic polymath far out on the progressive spectrum, and his juiced and jazzed up cohorts--clarinetist and ...

Album Review

Yuhan Su: OVER the MOONs

Read "OVER the MOONs" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 16, 2026

Originaria di Taiwan, da sedici anni residente a New York, Yuhan Su confessa nelle brevi note di copertina di correre su due binari culturali distinti, di sognare in due lingue, di usare due distinte forme di logica, di avere due differenti standard di gusto per il cibo... Quinto album da leader, OVER the MOONs cerca di catturare queste “due lune" presenti nella sua mente, le sensazioni e i sentimenti delle due identità, traducendole in una scrittura che abbracci il dolce ...

In Pictures

The Anna Webber Nonet at the Jazz Gallery: Reflections from the Edge of a World Gone Awry

by Dave Kaufman
February 6, 2026

The Jazz Gallery has functioned as a vital incubator for the New York jazz scene since its founding in 1995, specifically designed as a non-profit space where the primary goal is artistic risk rather than commercial viability. Anna Webber has a longstanding relationship with the Gallery; she was the 2022 recipient of the Margaret Whitton Award for female composers who lead their own ensembles. A celebrated composer and musician, Webber received the BMI Foundation Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize in ...

Album Review

Yuhan Su: OVER the MOONs

Read "OVER the MOONs" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
January 13, 2026

It turns out that Patricia Brennan is not the only vibraphonist exploring ambitious concepts these days. On this album, Yuhan Su brings the idea of dual consciousness into music, with the musicians in her group often playing along two separate paths simultaneously. Su was born in Taiwan and is now based in New York. Living in both those cultures at once gave her the idea to explore that concept musically. There is constant motion and activity in ...