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Sam Weber

Born: March 9, 1988

Sam Weber is an acoustic and electric bassist, composer, and arranger based in Brooklyn, New York. 

Since his arrival in New York City in 2012, Sam has been in constant demand as a sideman, performing with an eclectic community of musicians ranging from singer-songwriters to contemporary theater artists, dancers, rappers, crooners, avant-garde improvisers, and rising stars of the NYC jazz scene. Highlights from the past year include performances at top jazz venues such as The Blue Note, Lincoln Center, Birdland, Smalls, and The 1905, historic rock and folk venues such as The Grand Ole Opry, Club Passim, The Bitter End, and Cafe Wha, national and international jazz festivals, and many many others.

Sivan Arbel: Oneness

by Katchie Cartwright
March 1, 2025

Sivan Arbel's compositional practice is alternately “nerdy," as the singer-composer describes it, and “stream of consciousness." In her studio, she labors meticulously over the nuts and bolts: rhythmic patterns, harmonic changes, melodic turns. Once the fundamental elements are in place, though, she sits at her piano and “squeezes the sponge," improvising words and music freely, reaching ...

Oneness

By Sivan Arbel

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dreamland (feat. Jay Gandhi); Black Feet; The World of the End; Let Go; The Pit; Yin Yang; Second Floor Beloved; Everybody Wants to Rule the World; Oneness.

Bianca

By Dan Pugach

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tolerance; Bianca; Bella the Bear; Masa; Schleppin’; Travel; Dreams; Discourse This!

Dreamland

December 24, 2024

Album: Oneness
By Sivan Arbel
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 08:44

Dan Pugach Big Band: Bianca

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2024

Dan Pugach is an Israeli-born, New York-based drummer who doubles (quite well) as composer and arranger on Bianca, his second recording for Outside In Music. Pugach anchors a splendid big band comprised of some of the New York area's finest musicians on an album whose subtitle is “Music for Paws and Persistence." The ...

Dan Pugach Big Band at The Jazz Loft

by Dan Bilawsky
March 27, 2024

On March 22, 2024, two weeks to the day after Dan Pugach released his first big band record, the celebrated drummer-composer brought his large ensemble to The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook for an album release event that was a resounding success by any measure. That 90-seat venue--a performance space, museum and educational hub with a ...

Anchor Points

By Russell Kranes, Alex Levine, Sam Weber, Jay Sawyer

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Feint; Vivo Sonhando; Anchor Points; Old Folks; Two Sleepy People; I’ll Get By (As Long As I Have You); Everybody Else But You; And So It Goes.

Russell Kranes/Alex Levine/Sam Weber/Jay Sawyer: Anchor Points

by Jack Bowers
December 7, 2023

No leader is given on Anchor Points, simply the names of the four musicians who comprise the group on its debut recording. This is truly a co-op enterprise by jazz artists who have been performing together for a number of years in and around the New York City area. The studio session is ...

Russell Kranes, Alex Levine, Sam Weber, Jay Sawyer

Since meeting through the New York City jazz scene a decade ago, pianist Russell Kranes, bassist Sam Weber, guitarist Alex Levine, and drummer Jay Sawyer have performed together for thousands of hours across a multitude of musical contexts. In doing so, they have developed deep chemistry and a collective musical identity, all of which is the centerpiece of their debut recording, <em>Anchor Points,<em> released on OA2 records October 20, 2023. The album contains two iterations of the band: a quartet, and a stripped down trio with piano, guitar, and bass - a nod to the classic instrumentation utilized by the likes of Oscar Peterson and Nat King Cole, as well as the instrumentation in which Russell, Alex, and Sam initially played together