Anna Webber - Simple (2014)

Skirl Records: Skirl 027
http://www.skirlrecords.com/anna-webber-simple-0

* Anna Webber: flute, alto flute, tenor saxophone
* Matt Mitchell: piano, prepared piano
* John Hollenbeck: drums, percussion

http://www.annakristinwebber.com/
http://www.mattmitchell.us/
http://www.johnhollenbeck.com/

Recorded in August 2013 at the Loove, Brooklyn by Andrew Felluss.


Reviews
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By Ben Ratliff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/arts/music/new-music-from-the-rotem-sivan-trio-and-anna-webber.html

A young Canadian saxophonist and flutist now living in Brooklyn, Ms. Webber is
writing music that goes two ways: toward plotted percussive cycles, precise and
gamelan-like, in which repetition becomes its own reward; and toward the kind
of playful and thinky, tone-smearing, what-is-a-sound? experiments that the
composers of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians started
working on nearly 50 years ago. She’s played with a number of groups from
Montreal and New York, some of them her own, but “Simple” (Skirl) is her best
work yet, recorded with two of the best musicians working in New York’s
compositional, high-concept avant-garde — the pianist Matt Mitchell and the
drummer John Hollenbeck. These pieces are bracing, argumentative and engineered
to show the range of the group members: fulminous, intense collective
improvisation; rapid, chromatic steeplechases; research into long tones and
textures.

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By Paul Acquaro
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2014/11/anna-webber-simple-skirl-2014.html

By Paul Naser
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/anna-webber-simple-anna-webber-skirl-records-review-by-paul-naser.php

By Dave Wayne
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/simple-anna-webber-skirl-records-review-by-dave-wayne.php

By S. Victor Aaron
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/09/12/anna-webber-with-john-hollenbeck-and-matt-mitchell-simple-2014/

By Stuart Broomer
http://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/jazzaimprovised/25148-jazz-eh-december-2014

By Peter Margasak
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/record-reviews-beal-pallbearer-specks-tarbaby-rentals/Content?oid=14672849