Jazz Articles about Marc Hannaford

About Marc Hannaford

Album Review

Canadian saxophonist Anna Webber's quartet provides a second winning entry in Out Of Your Head Records' digital Untamed series, following Nick Dunston's Atlantic Extraction: Live At Threes (2020). Webber calls the band Rectangles after a composition inspired by a sequence of 10-second videos on the YouTube test channel Webdriver Torso which consist of a string of high pitches coupled with images of red and blue rectangles flashing across the screen. If that premise sounds unpromising, the execution is anything but. ...

Album Review

Webber / Morris Big Band: Both Are True

Read "Both Are True" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 23, 2020

On Both Are True Canadian composers and reed players Anna Webber and Angela Morris reimagine the language of the big band. They extend the tradition through adventurous arrangements spiced with the unpredictability of improv, by co-opting the nimbleness of a much smaller group, and reveling in non-standard techniques. Webber has already garnered plaudits for the work of her Simple Trio with Matt Mitchell and John Hollenbeck, while Morris' ventures such as the Motel Trio boast a lower profile so far. ...

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Marc Hannaford: The Garden of Forking Paths

Read "The Garden of Forking Paths" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 18, 2007

Named after a famous short story by Argentinean writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, Melbourne-based, twenty-five year-old Australian pianist Marc Hannaford uses a labyrinth-like model, similar to the stories of his namesake, to construct this impressive debut . Hannaford, together with some of the best improvisers in Australia--trumpeter Scott Tinkler, drummer Ken Edie and bassist Phillip Rex--present eight pieces that weave the independent and distinctive voices of his collaborators into a multi-layered texture. The musicians work best in a tight ...