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Anna Webber

Born: November 26, 1984

Anna Webber (b. 1984) is a New York-based flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live the overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. Her new album, Clockwise, featuring a septet comprised of several of the most creative musicians working in New York’s avant-garde, will be released on Pi Recordings in February 2019. Webber is joined on Clockwise by Jeremy Viner, Jacob Garchik, Chris Hoffman, Matt Mitchell, Chris Tordini, and Ches Smith.

In addition to this septet, Webber also leads the critically acclaimed Simple Trio, featuring drummer John Hollenbeck and pianist Matt Mitchell, with which she has released two albums on Skirl Records: Binary (2016) and SIMPLE (2014). She has furthermore recorded for Munich’s Pirouet Records with the now defunct Percussive Mechanics. Her other projects a big band co-led with Angela Morris; Jagged Spheres with Devin Gray and Elias Stemeseder; EAVE with Erik Hove, Evan Tighe, and Vicky Mettler; and The Hero of Warchester with Nathaniel Morgan and Liz Kosack.

Matt Mitchell: Oblong Aplomb

by John Sharpe
September 27, 2023

On Oblong Aplomb pianist Matt Mitchell pays homage to the drummers in his life. In a way, it can be seen as a follow-up to his debut Fiction (Pi Recordings, 2013). That album, a duet with stickman Ches Smith, originated from Mitchell's practice of warming up for gigs with Tim Berne's Snakeoil by running through a ...

Clara Lai Trio, Sam Weinberg and Interstellar Nao

by Maurice Hogue
June 12, 2023

A healthy dose of edgy new releases in this episode, featuring Spanish pianist Clara Lai and trio, saxophonist Sam Weinberg and trio, Bobo Stenson and several from the European hotbed of avant-garde--Netherlands (saxophonist Frans Vermeerssen, Cocktail Party Attack, saxophonist Bo Van De Graaf, & Mixing Memory and Desire), plus a freewheeling session from Mexico City featuring ...

Max Johnson Trio: Orbit of Sound

by Mike Jurkovic
January 11, 2023

Whereas Sketches (Fresh Sounds Records, 2022) could be considered a more traditional big bop trio recording with pianist/vibraphonist Karl Berger and drummer Billy MIntz, Orbit of Sound, NY bassist Max Johnson's second heady release of 2022 finds him in the instigative company of the ever undefinable Anna Webber on tenor saxophone and flute and drummer Michael ...

2023 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2023

The fact that New York City's Winter JazzFest (WJF) is back to in-person performances may very well be among the most meaningful signs, at least for jazz die-hards, that life is returning to normal. The overall number of concerts may not be as high as in the past, with the 170+ performances of 2020 ...

Séances

By Trevor Dunn

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Secours Meurtriers; Saint-Médard; Restore All Things; 1733; The Asylum’s Guilt; Eschatology; Thaumaturge.

Secours Meurtriers

November 18, 2022

Album: Séances
By Trevor Dunn
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 7:24

Trevor Dunn: Séances

by Mike Jurkovic
October 29, 2022

Holy bank shot Batman! Is Seances, (bassist Trevor Dunn's dissertation on the how humans tend to forget and repeat, ever a radical and electrifying take on things. Anything and everything goes the distance for Dunn and the combined mad genius of his Trio-Covulsant cronies, wickedly cool guitarist Mary Halvorson and the chaotic meter of drummer Ches ...

Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant avec Folie À Quatre: Séances

by Mark Corroto
September 27, 2022

If you thought the Hang Mike Pence and Three Percenters crowd are just a phenomenon of the 21st century, let me introduce you to the Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard, an 18th century Christian sect with the hysterical practices of coprophagia (yes, eating feces), spontaneous milk-vomiting and levitation. After the established religious authorities cracked down on the Convulsionnaires, ...

Big Ears for Big Sounds

by David Brown
September 13, 2022

This week, I've had big ears for some big sounds. And now you can too. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 00:30 Stan Kenton “Prollouge" from Kenton's West Side Story (Capital Records) 02:00 Don Ellis Orchestra “Turkish Bath" from Electric Bath (Columbia) 06:05 Chick Web and his Orchestra ...