Results for "Anna Webber"

A Prayer for Lester Bowie

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Full Immersion; Subtraf; Woman in Shadows; Popit; A Prayer For Lester Bowie; Dizzy Atmosphere; Soldier and the CEO; V-Reel.

Leftover Beats from the Edges of Time

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2021
Track listing: Requiem #1 (Leftover Beats); Such Closer #1; How to Keep, Forever; Someone to Watch You, Parts 1-3; Stage Whisper; Confidence White; Songbird; Requiem #2 (Well); Shallow Times; Such Closer #2; Requiem #3 (Future); How to Know, Forever (Evasiveness).

Attarian's Dozen: Twelve Superb Releases That Made 2021 Tolerable

by Hrayr Attarian
December 28, 2021

The year 2021 started full of hope yet it did not live up to its promises. Musically, however, it saw the release of several outstanding recordings. Below are a dozen that helped kept me sane and grounded throughout the year. Featured are the two mammoth and stimulating boxsets from saxophonist and improviser par excellence ...

Mark Corroto's Best Recordings Of 2021

by Mark Corroto
December 16, 2021

Another year in jazz, and another year in global pandemic jazz. When we look back on these times, I believe we will refer to them much like the designations BC and AD (or BCE and CE, if you like). We'll ask, what was music like before masks and social distancing; and, remember when we squeezed together ...

Steve Coleman, Artifacts, Wadada Leo Smith & Weiss/Okazaki

by Maurice Hogue
December 8, 2021

M-Base in the house when Steve Coleman and Five Elements recorded Volume 2 of their live performances from the Village Vanguard. It's the feature recording in this episode, but it's got company from the very excellent ...and Then There's This by Artifacts (Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid & Mike Reed). This is a superb album. So is ...

Anna Webber: Idiom

by Hrayr Attarian
August 15, 2021

Award winning composer, saxophonist and flautist Anna Webber is a restless innovator and musical individualist. Her ninth release as a leader, the sublime and magnificent two-disc Idiom is an ambitious project which Webber pulls off brilliantly and with elegance. Five compositions from the “Idiom" series are represented here. Four are in a sparse trio setting while ...

Dewey Redman, Bugpowder, Mario Pavone & Miles

by Maurice Hogue
August 4, 2021

Pianist Barney McCall was a member of the Dewey Redman Quartet several years ago and he happened to record one of their gigs in jny: Chicago. He didn't expect the audio quality would be much good so he forgot about it. Recently thought he gave it a listen, did some serious tweaking to the sound, et ...

Devin Gray, Benoit Delbecq and Oh! Canada

by Maurice Hogue
July 21, 2021

With this show's air date falling on July 1st, Canada Day, I decided I best get all patriotic, eh, and program a wide variety of Canadian artists in the second half to celebrate Canadian jazz. In the first part there are tunes from new releases by Benoit Delbecq, the trio of Devin Gray, Ralph Alessi and ...

Anna Weber, The Resonators & Anthony Joseph

by Maurice Hogue
July 7, 2021

Two products of the jazz program at McGill University in jny: Montreal have new releases to sample this week: saxophonist and composer Anna Webber's Idiom is easily her most ambitious project to date featuring her Simple Trio (Matt Mitchell and John Hollenbeck) and a large ensemble of improvisers and new music specialists. Drummer Mark Nelson continues ...

Anna Webber: Idiom

by Mark Corroto
May 29, 2021

Is Idiom, from composer, saxophonist, and flutist Anna Webber, new classical music or jazz? Yes. Is the music scored or improvised? Again, yes. Last question: Is it demanding or easy on the ears? Both. On the heels of two stellar releases, the septet Clockwise (Pi Recordings, 2019) and the Webber/Morris Big Band recording Both Are True ...