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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.

Looking for Consonance

By GEORGE

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: bounce; Lewis (dedicated to George Lewis); Nassam Alayna-LHawa (a diasporic offering for peace); George and Dee (dedicated to George and Dee Gamble); Georgist; Porter (10,000 men named George); Norma (in support of reproductive autonomy); Unicornio (for the Global South, in movement and resilience); Johnson (dedicated to George F. Johnson); Wayne Phases (dedicated to Wayne Shorter).

Boomtown

By Miles Okazaki

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Magic Hour; Boomtown Girl; Thermopolis; Diamondville; Hole in the Wall; Spotted Horse; Bighorn; Recluse Road; Ten Sleep; Grand Prismatic; Devils Tower; Ghost Town Girl.

Partisan Ship

By Phillip Golub

Label: Berthold
Released: 2026
Track listing: loyalty oath; interlude (aboard); partisan ship; interlude (adorn); mutiny meeting; interlude (adrift); blue-orange reflections; cries of the initiated; utopian micronation; afterword: partisan session.

GEORGE: Looking for Consonance

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 ...

From the Loft Scene to the Latest Blippy Synth Jazz... and more!

by Jon Greenbaum
October 25, 2026

Music from the last century: The New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez & The Firespitters, Sam Rivers, The Dave Holland Quintet and a new archival release from a live Sunny Murray, Arthur Doyle and Rasul Siddik date. Plus a dozen intense new releases! Playlist Jayne Cortez & The Firespitters “I See Chano Pozo" from ...

Joe Hertenstein, Alexander Von Schlippenbach & John Coltrane

by Maurice Hogue
October 12, 2026

New releases from Germany this week should attract interest--drummer Joe Hertenstein (often seen in New York) debuts the second release of his Future Drone trio, this time with Anthony Coleman on Hammond B3!!; pianist and father of the European avant-garde Alexander Von Schlippenbach rips it up with a much younger quartet; and the Blumer-Morgenthaler Quartet debuts. ...

Gretchen Parlato, Kevin Sun, and Eberhard Weber

by Jerome Wilson
October 7, 2026

This episode features new music from Gretchen Parlato and Kevin Sun as well as older work by Eberhard Weber and Joel Ross.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Isrea Butler “I.Q. Shuffle" from Congo Lament (Vegas) ...

An outstanding new release from Emma Dayhuff featuring Isaiah Collier and Paul Cornish, Kevin Sun's latest, Jane Ira Bloom and Caleb Wheeler Curtis with Jason Moran

by Hobart Taylor
September 30, 2026

Music from Anna Webber's latest projects, her nonet and Shimmer and Wince, saxophonist Alain Bradette and a classic cut from Frank Wess. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Jane Ira Bloom “ White Tower" from Light from a Person (Outline) 00:07 Alain Bradette"Lunatic" from For My Loved Ones (Quantum Gravity) 06:24 Host Speaks 13:10 Anna Webber ...

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 2

by Petra Cvelbar
September 6, 2026

The sixth day of the 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto continued with a performance by The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, featuring Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone, Mariam Rezaei on turntables, Gabriele Mitelli on piccolo trumpet, electronics, and vocals, and Lukas König on drums, electric cymbals, and synthesizer. On the seventh day, we ...