Percussive Mechanics Anna Webber / Percussive Mechanics

• 1 Dance 06:51
• 2 Certain Transcendence 04:47
• 3 Terrarosa 05:35
• 4 Percussive Mechanics 09:24
• 5 Vigilance 08:54
• 6 Sleeping Is Giving In 07:19
• 7 Histrionics 06:27
• 8 Let It Cut More Deep 06:36
• 9 Eins! 03:13
• Total Runtime 59:06

Info for Percussive Mechanics

Percussive Mechanics: there's nothing mechanical about it. The young Canadian Anna Webber has been highly praised by such illustrious colleagues as pianist Jason Moran. Here, with a seven-piece ensemble of highly talented young musicians, she shows what exciting and unexpected sounds she can create.

It’s an adventure—every composition a singular world of sound. And yet these worlds are compatible; their colors stunningly enhance one another. Canadian Anna Webber’s worlds of sound are out of the ordinary. Born in 1984 in British Columbia and living in New York City since 2008, Weber is one of the exceptional international jazz discoveries of the last few years. Anna Kristin Webber plays saxo- phone and flute, and composes. She has worked with such well-known colleagues as John Hollenbeck, Ben Street, and Dave Douglas. Her Album Third Floor People (Nowt Records, 2010) made people sit up and take notice. On it she presented two separate quartets, each without bass, one from Montreal, the other from New York. The praise paid to her by pianist Jason Moran is especially striking. Anna Webber studied with Moran, as well as with such other well-known musicians as John Hollenbeck und George Garzone. Jason Moran says about her, “Anna Webber is a rare musician that can comfortably combine intellectual curiosity with pure emotion. Each time I've performed with her, a completely new sound was revealed. She is confident in her path and I am always anxious of her next moves. A brilliant player.” Her brilliance, her curiosity, her ability to portray emotion, and her fantasy as bandleader and composer—all of these are reflected in Anna Webber’s first PIROUET Album 'Percussive Mechanics'.

Anna Webber, flute, tenor saxophone
James Wylie, clarinet, alto saxophone
Elias Stemeseder, piano, wurlitzer
Julius Heise, vibraphone, marimba, whistling
Igor Spallati, double bass
Max Andrzejewski, drums, glockenspiel, miscellaneous percussion, whistling
Martin Kruemmling, drums, miscellaneous percussion

Anna Webber
Flute and saxophone player Anna Webber is a versatile improviser holding both an open respect for the tradition of jazz and a healthy disregard for its more worn conventions.

Her adventurous first album as a leader, Third Floor People (Nowt Records), was released in 2010 to critical acclaim. She has performed and/or recorded with such diverse talents as Mark Turner, John Hollenbeck, Tony Malaby, John Riley, David Liebman, Ben Street, Lage Lund and Stefon Harris (notably appearing on his 2009 Grammy-nominated album Urbanus). She has toured throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe; is the winner of the Prix François- Marcaurelle 2010 at the OFF Festival of Jazz in Montreal and received national recognition as a finalist in the Mary Lou Williams Saxophone Competition. Originally from British Columbia, Canada, Webber now splits her time between New York City and Berlin.

"Anna Webber is a rare musician that can comfortably combine intellectual curiosity with pure emotion. Each time I’ve performed with her, a completely new sound was revealed. She is confident in her path and I am always anxious of her next moves. A brilliant player.” Jason Moran

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