Anna Webber’s Percussive Mechanics

Anna Webber’s Percussive Mechanics: Refractions

by Mark Corroto
June 7, 2015

Credit the new generation of jazz musicians for neither following tradition, nor coloring within the lines. Their music is not created within “the tradition." Unless, of course, that tradition includes maverick innovators like Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and John Zorn, players that, at times, have been given the label of non-jazz. This new crop of players and perhaps, more importantly, composers, includes saxophonist Steve Lehman, drummer John Hollenbeck, pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, violinist Mat Maneri, and flutist/saxophonist Anna Webber.