Max Johnson Trio - The Music Resource Center, Charlottesville, VA
Max Johnson Trio - Rhizome, Washington, DC
Max Johnson Trio - Little Jumbo, Asheville, NC
The Vex Collection (Atria/Muntz) - Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Jeff Davis' Summer Horse - Main Drag, Brooklyn, NY
Geof Bradfield's Colossal Abundance - Constellation, Chicago, IL
Anna Webber's Rectangles - Bar Bayeux, Brooklyn, NY
Webber/Morris Big Band - Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
Anna Webber's Simple Trio - The Loft, Cologne, Germany
Anna Webber's Simple Trio - North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Matt Mitchell/Anna Webber Duo - The Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn, NY
Faculty @ Vermont Jazz Center Summer Jazz Workshop
Shimmer Wince - Duck Creek Arts, East Hampton, NY
AW STONE WEEK 2023: Clockwise Septet
AW STONE WEEK 2023: Simple Trio
AW STONE WEEK 2023: Quartet w/ Kim, Stewart, Gentile
AW STONE WEEK 2023: Shimmer Wince Album Launch
Dan Weiss + Taborn/Jones/Tordini/Webber - The Stone, NYC
Shimmer Wince - Solar Myth, Philadelphia, PA
GEORGE in Korea!
Brennan/Fujiwara/Webber - The Stone, NYC
Sana Nagano's Smashing Humans - VBI Theater, Poughkeepsie, NY
Max Johnson Trio - University Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA
Max Johnson Trio - The Blue Room-City Space, Easthampton, MA
Max Johnson Trio - Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT
Max Johnson Trio - Parzelle im Depot, Dortmund, DE
Max Johnson Trio - Güterschuppen, Westerstede, DE
Max Johnson Trio - TBD
Max Johnson Trio - Lokal Harmonie, Duisburg, DE
Max Johnson Trio - Maerz Gallery, Linz, AT
Max Johnson Trio - Kulturverein Reigen, Vienna, AT
Max Johnson Trio - Stockwerk, Graz, AT
Max Johnson Trio - Narodni dom Maribor, Maribor, SI
GEORGE - New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Max Johnson Trio - Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Anna Webber's Simple Trio - Ibeam, Brooklyn, NY
Joe Morris + Anna Webber - Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Anna Webber's Shimmer Wince - Winter Jazzfest Brooklyn Marathon
James Annett: Signal, Gestures, and Flow - CIRMMT, Montreal, QC
Anna Webber Residency Concert - New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Lazar/Mitchell/Webber - Anchor House of Artists, Northampton, MA
Anna Webber & Angela Morris - Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Anna Webber & Angela Morris - NEC, Boston, MA
Morris/Deupree/Barrett/Webber - Never Ending Books, New Haven, CT
Webber/Greve Quartet - Endless Life Brewing, Brooklyn, NY
Mitchell/Webber Duo - The Owl, Brooklyn, NY
Ches Smith's Laugh Ash - Solar Myth, Philadelphia, PA
Anna Webber's Shimmer Wince - Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC
Anna Webber's Shimmer Wince - Bop Shop, Rochester, NY
Anna Webber's Shimmer Wince - Shea Theater, Turners Falls, MA
Anna Webber's Shimmer Wince - Loading Dock, Littleton, NH
Anna Webber's Shimmer Wince - Jazz Gallery, New York, NY
Ches Smith's Laugh Ash - Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN with Matt Mitchell, Trevor Dunn, and Ches Smith
Will Mason: Hemlocks; Peacocks - Cole Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Webber/Opsvik/Rainey - Lowlands, Brooklyn, NY
Webber/Viner/Kosack/Jermyn/Akintaya - Sowieso, Berlin, DE
Webber/Nillesen/Muche/Herzog - Stadtgarten, Cologne, DE
Tomeka Reid: Celebrating Duke Ellington - Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, DE
GEORGE - The Outpost, Albuquerque, NM
GEORGE - The Ravenscroft, Phoenix, AZ
GEORGE - Paradiso, Santa Fe, NM
GEORGE - UC Boulder, Boulder, CO
GEORGE - Willamette University, Salem, OR
GEORGE - Moody's Bistro, Truckee, NV
GEORGE - Reno Jazz Festival, Reno, NV
Shimmer Wince - Long Play Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Doyeon Kim Quartet - Long Play Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Shimmer Wince - Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT
MODNEY Ascending Primes Release Show - Tenri Cultural Institue, New York, NY
Will Mason: Hemlocks; Peackocks - Inspiria, Providence, RI
GEORGE - Campbell Bay Music Fest
GEORGE - Vancouver Jazz Festival
GEORGE - Toronto Jazz Festival
GEORGE - Montreal Jazz Festival
Anna Webber Triangles - Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Anna Webber / Tony Falco - Anchor House of Artists, Northampton, MA
GEORGE - Bang on a Can's Loud Weekend - North Adams, MA
GEORGE - Close Up, New York, NY
Webber/Morris Big Band - Jazz Gallery, New York, NY
Yuhan Su "Over the Moons" - Jazz Gallery, New York, NY
Shimmer Wince - Solar Myth // Ars Nova, Philadelphia, PA
Anna Webber's Simple Trio "simpletrio2000" release show - Jazz Gallery, New York, NY
Geof Bradfield's Colossal Abundance - Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Chicago, IL
Matt Mitchell & Anna Webber duo - Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Chicago, IL
simpletrio2000 release day!!
GEORGE in residence at New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
GEORGE - The Lilypad, Boston, MA
GEORGE - Myrtle, Providence, RI
GEORGE - Wheaton College, Norton, MA
GEORGE - The Loading Dock, Littleton, NH
GEORGE - The Mill, Westport, NY
GEORGE - Jazzfest Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Stone Residency NYC Night 1 - Matt Shipp + Joe Morris + AW
Stone Residency NYC Night 2 - Angelica Sanchez + Adam Hopkins + Tom Rainey + AW
Stone Residency NYC Night 3 - Chris Williams + Ingrid Laubrock + Yuhan Su + Chris Tordini + Jason Nazary + AW
Stone Residency NYC Night 4 - Matt Mitchell + AW
Shimmer Wince - Domicil, Dortmund, Germany
Shimmer Wince - Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany
Shimmer Wince - unerhört! Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
Shimmer Wince - Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Shimmer Wince - Jazzit, Salzburg, Austria
Shimmer Wince - Stockwerk // Open Music, Graz, Austria
Shimmer Wince - Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, Norway
Brax' Tree + Anna Webber - l'An Vert, Liege, Belgium
Brax' Tree + Anna Webber - De Singer, Rijkevorsel, Belgium
Brax' Tree + Anna Webber - Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium
Brax' Tree + Anna Webber - Kulturforum Villach, Villach, Austria
Ingrid Laubrock Stone Residency - The Stone, New York, NY
Simple Trio at Creative Music Works - Denver, CO
Anna Webber (b. 1984) is a flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. Her new album, simpletrio2000, is an exploration of polyrhythm and a celebration of a decade of working with her band Simple Trio. Featuring Matt Mitchell on piano and John Hollenbeck on drums, simpletrio2000 is the group’s fourth album, and a follow-up to the critically-acclaimed release Idiom, which earned Webber the accolade of being named the top composer of the year by JazzTimes in 2021. Her music has been called "visionary and captivating," (Wall Street Journal), and “heady music [that] appeals to the rest of the body” (NPR). In 2024 alone, she received the Herb Albert Award in the Arts, a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commission, and was voted top of both the tenor saxophone and flute “Rising Star” categories in the Downbeat Critic’s Poll.
A prolific bandleader, Webber is also known for the Webber Morris Big Band, a group she co-leads with saxophonist and composer Angela Morris, and her quintet Shimmer Wince (featuring Adam O’Farrill on trumpet, Mariel Roberts on cello, Elias Stemeseder on synthesizer, and Lesley Mok on drums) which explores Just Intonation in a jazz context. She has additionally performed and/or recorded with projects led by artists such as Dan Weiss, Miles Okazaki, Roscoe Mitchell, Ranja Swaminathan, Jen Shyu, Dave Douglas, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith, John Hollenbeck, and Trevor Dunn, among others.
Webber is a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow, and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. She has additionally been honored with the Margaret Whitton Award (administered by the Jazz Gallery); grants from the Copland Fund (2021 & 2019), the Shifting Foundation (2015 & 2022), the New York Foundation for the Arts (2017), the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts; and residencies from Exploring the Metropolis (2019), the MacDowell Colony (2017 & 2020), the Millay Colony for the Arts (2015), and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2014).
Originally from British Columbia, Webber studied music at McGill University in Montreal before moving to New York City in 2008. She holds master’s degrees from both Manhattan School of Music and the Jazz Institute Berlin. She is currently serving as the Co-Chair of Jazz Studies at New England Conservatory.
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Webber/Morris Big Band
Intakt Records
Tzadik Records
Pi Recordings
Out Of Your Head Records
Greenleaf Music
Astral Spirits Records
Skirl Records
Pirouet Records
Canada Council for the Arts
Site design by Jonas Beuchert
Site programming by Alex Kern
Photos by Alice Plati unless otherwise noted.
Other images taken from album artwork from Clockwise, The Four Americas (Hero of Warchester), Binary, SIMPLE, Refraction, Percussive Mechanics, and Third Floor People, © Simon Grendene/Pi Recordings, Brian Henkel, KarlssonWilker, Konstantin Kern/Pirouet Records, and Alix Maubrey.
Videos:
Simple Trio plays Forgotten Best
Simple Trio + Idiom VI Large Ensemble at Roulette
Webber/Hopkins/Rainey
Webber/Morris Big Band
Rectangles 2/Cats/etc
The Hero of Warchester
with PERCUSSIVE MECHANICS
with Adam Hopkins' Crickets
with the Erik Hove Chamber Ensemble
As a leader:
As a sideperson:
Geof Bradfield - Colossal Abundance
Miles Okazaki - Miniature America
Josh Modney - Ascending Primes
Ches Smith - Laugh Ash
Rajna Saminathan RAJAS - Apertures
John Hollenbeck/GEORGE - Letters to George
Trevor Dunn - sèances
Max Johnson Trio - Orbit of Sound
Weston Olencki - Old Time Music
Remy Le Boeuf - Architecture of Storms
Gabriel Zucker - Leftover Beats from the Edges of Time
David Sanford Big Band - A Prayer for Lester Bowie
Jacob Garchik - Clear Line
Raf Vertessen - LOI
Brian Krock - Big Heart Machine Live at the Jazz gallery
Dave Douglas - Engage
Colin Hinton - Simulacra
Remy Le Boeuf - Assembly of Shadows
Adam Hopkins - Crickets
Ken Thomson - Sextet
Enrique Haneine - The Mind's Mural
Geof Bradfield - Yes and...
Marike van Dijk - The Stereography Project feat. Jeff Taylor and Katell Keineg
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble- All Can Work
Jen Shyu - Song of Silver Geese
Matt Mitchell - A Pouting Grimace
Erik Hove - Polygon
Harris Eisenstadt - Recent Developments
Fabian Almazan & Realm of Possibilities - SWR Newjazz Meeting 2015
Dan Weiss - 16: Drummers Suite
Guilhem Flouzat - Portraits
Erik Hove - Saturated Colour
Marike van Dijk - The Stereography Project
Noah Garabedian - Big Butter and the Egg Men
Simon Kanzler - Talking Hands
Martin Kruemmling - The Vision Behind
Ben Bryden - Flying Scot
Daniel Jamieson - Sudden Appearance
Stefon Harris and Blackout - Urbanus
André Bourgeois - Eau de Mai
Rectangles
Released on July 31, 2020 on Out Of Your Head Records' Untamed Series
Marc Hannaford - piano;
Adam Hopkins - bass;
Mark Ferber - drums;
Anna Webber - tenor sax/compositions
Buy it here:
BandCamp
Tracks:
Rectangles 3
Binary - SKIRL 033
Released on October 25, 2016 on Skirl Records
Matt Mitchell - piano;
John Hollenbeck - drums;
Anna Webber - flute//tenor sax/compositions
Buy it here:
BandCamp
Skirl Records
Tracks:
Rectangles 2
Impulse Purchase
Rectangles 3a
Rectangles 1b
Underhelmed
Tug o' War
Rectangles 3b
Binary
Meme
Disintegratiate
Rectangles 3c
Rectangles 1a
SIMPLE - SKIRL 027
Released on Sept 16, 2014 on Skirl Records
Matt Mitchell - piano;
John Hollenbeck - drums;
Anna Webber - flute/alto flute/tenor sax/compositions
It's packaged in a DVD-sized digipack with artwork from Karlssonwilker!
Buy it here:
BandCamp
Skirl Records
Tracks:
Carnophobia
Emoticon
1994
Simplify Simplify
Washington
I Don't Want To Be Happy
Zigzag
Refraction - PIT3079
Released January 6, 2015 on Pirouet Records
Anna Webber - flute/alto flute/tenor sax/compositions;
James Wylie - alto sax/clarinet;
Elias Stemeseder - piano;
Julius Heise - vibraphone/marimba;
Igor Spallati - bass;
Martin Kruemmling - drums;
Max Andrzejewski - drums/marimba
Buy it here:
BandCamp
Pirouet Records
iTunes
Tracks:
Five (Action)
Tacos Wyoming
Climbing on Mirrors
Theodore
Relentless!
The All Pro 3 speed
Friction/Vif (Reflection)
Percussive Mechanics - Pirouet Records PIT3069
Anna Webber - flute/tenor sax/compositions;
James Wylie - alto sax/clarinet;
Elias Stemeseder - piano;
Julius Heise - vibraphone/marimba;
Igor Spallati - bass;
Martin Kruemmling - drums;
Max Andrzejewski - drums
Buy it here:
BandCamp
Pirouet Records
iTunes
Tracks:
Dan:ce
Certain Transcendence
Terrarosa
Percussive Mechanics
Vigilance
Sleeping Is Giving In
Histrionics
Let It Cut More Deep
EINS!
Third Floor People - Nowt Records NOWT 005
Montreal People: Anna Webber - flute/tenor sax; Erik Hove - alto sax; Jean-Sebastien Williams - guitar; Phil Melanson - drums
New York People: Anna Webber - flute/tenor sax; Matt Holman - trumpet; Owen Stewart-Robertson - guitar; Fred Kennedy - drums
Tracks:
Third Floor People I
Awkward
Parallelissimo I
Glimpses
Hymn
Stop Rocking
Une Myriade
Boo Boo Boo Daa
Le Pont
Parallelissimo II
Third Floor People II
Jagged Spheres II
Elias Stemeseder - piano;
Devin Gray - drums;
Anna Webber - flute, tenor sax
Only available digitally! You can stream and buy this here at Bandcamp
Tracks:
Dragnet (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
Surely Shortly I (Gray)
Suitcase Champion (Webber)
Erdapfeldoag mit Spinat (Stemeseder)
Snatched (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
Surely Shortly II (Gray)
Jagged Spheres
Elias Stemeseder - piano;
Devin Gray - drums;
Anna Webber - flute, tenor sax
You can stream and buy this from our BandCamp page
jaggedspheres.bandcamp.com
Tracks:
Jaggedsphere (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
For Erik (Webber)
Health Bars (Stemeseder)
Two And A Half (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
Getting Hit Off My Bike, By a Nice Cab Driver At 3:33am In Williamsburg (Gray)
Two (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
Nineeight (Stemeseder)
TAC Trio: CIX
Released October 2, 2020
Chris Tordini - bass;
Theo Bleckmann - voice;
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute
This was a 2020 Quarantine Project, made remotely and collaboratively. Each of us recorded two solo improvisations, which were then passed around, round robin-style, to the other two members of the band. Chris Tordini mixed the album. Artwork by Theo Bleckmann
Digital download only, available on Bandcamp
Tracks:
Recitative
Combustible
Of
Coronda
Gatehouse
Noa
The Hero of Warchester
Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone;
Liz Kosack - synthesizer;
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone
Cassette + digital download available at Prom Night Records
Tracks:
buzzard
everyone needs a hero
distair
wringling
bile
The Four Americas - Hero of Warchester
Released January 27, 2018.
Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone;
Liz Kosack - synthesizer;
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone
The Seer of Warchester (and provider of spoken word) is Ben Willis
Artwork by Brian Henkel
Only available via digital download here: Bandcamp
Tracks:
The Four Americas
Backseat Ranger
The Three Fourmericas
Last Fashion Hero
A Pond of Time
A burden the ham is worse, too in the butch.
Agent Morrison
The Harold of Warchester
The Scholar of Warchester
Florets of Arabia
EAVE
Erik Hove - alto saxophone, flute;
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute;
Vicky Mettler - guitar;
Evan Tighe - drums
Released February 16, 2018. Cassette + digital download available on Bandcamp or the Astral Spirits website
Tracks:
Meriwether
Liver-Eating
Gold Fever
Axe or Chisel
Denver Bob
The Night of the Burning River
A Well-Worn Path
Owyhee
Yakima
Memorandum
Clockwise - PI79
Released on February 22, 2019 on Pi Recordings
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute, bass flute, alto flute;Idiom - PI89
Released on May 28, 2021 on Pi Recordings
Simple Trio
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute;
Matt Mitchell - piano;
John Hollenbeck - drums
Large Ensemble
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute, bass flute;
Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone;
Yuma Uesaka - tenor saxophone, clarinet, contra-alto clarinet;
Adam O’Farrill - trumpet;
David Byrd-Marrow - horn;
Jacob Garchik - trombone;
Erica Dicker - violin;
Joanna Mattrey - viola;
Mariel Roberts - cello;
Liz Kosack - synthesizer;
Nick Dunston - bass;
Satoshi Takeishi - drums;
Eric Wubbels - conductor
CD + digital download available to from:
Bandcamp
Tracks:
Idiom I
Idiom IV
Forgotten Best
Idiom V
Idiom III
Idiom VI
Movement I
Interlude 1
Movement II
Interlude 2 & Movement III
Movement IV
Interlude 3 & Movement V
Interlude 4 & Movement VI
Both Are True - GRE-CD-1075
Released on April 3, 2020 on Greenleaf Music
Angela Morris - conductor, tenor sax, flute;
Anna Webber - conductor, tenor sax, flute;
Jay Rattman - alto sax, soprano sax, flute;
Charlotte Greve - alto sax, clarinet;
Adam Schneit - tenor sax, clarinet;
Lisa Parrott - bari sax, bass clarinet;
John Lake - trumpet;
Jake Henry - trumpet;
Adam O'Farrill - trumpet;
Kenny Warren - trumpet;
Tim Vaughn - trombone;
Nick Grinder - trombone;
Jen Baker - trombone;
Reginald Chapman - bass trombone;
Patricia Brennan - vibraphone;
Dustin Carlson - guitar;
Marc Hannaford - piano;
Adam Hopkins - bass;
Jeff Davis - drums
CD + digital download available from:
Bandcamp
Tracks:
Climbing On Mirrors
Duo 1
Both Are True
Rebonds
Coral
And It Rolled Right Down
Foggy Valley
Duo 2
Reverses
Shimmer Wince
Released on October 20, 2023 on Intakt Records
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute, bass flute;
Adam O'Farrill - trumpet
Mariel Roberts - cello
Elias Stemeseder - synthesizer
Lesley Mok - drums
Purchase:
Digital
Physical
Hi-res Digital
Tracks:
Swell
Wince
Fizz
Periodicity 1
Squirmy
Periodicity 2
Shimmer
simpletrio2000
Released on October 18, 2024 on Intakt Records
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute, bass flute;
Matt Mitchell - piano;
John Hollenbeck - drums
Purchase:
digital/physical (US + Canada)
hi res digital
physical (rest of the world)
Tracks:
Slingsh0t
Idiom VII
Fixed Do
Foray
Five Eateries (in New England)
g equals GM over r squared
miiire
8va
Ch9tter
Moveable Do
Several
Released September 22, 2023 on Astral Spirits
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone
Weston Olencki - trombone
Cassette + digital download available on Bandcamp
Tracks:
champion donut
cooks (unlimited)
St. James St.
Two Harmonies
Longie
Capacious Aeration
Releases October 20, 2023 on Tzadik Records
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute, bass flute
Matt Mitchell - piano
To purchase, please visit Tzadik Records
Tracks:
Most Capacious
Glarbs 2.0
Zooquaria
Maximum Cadence
re-aeration
Tracks 1-4 by Anna Webber. Track 5 by Matt Mitchell
Artwork by Brian Henkel
Scores are available for purchase as album packs.
One can currently buy the scores for:
simpletrio2000
Shimmer Wince
Idiom - Disc 1 (Trio) and Disc 2 (Large Ensemble)
Both Are True (individual scores + parts also available through this link)
Clockwise (individual compositions also available on the Pi website)
Binary
SIMPLE
Refraction
Percussive Mechanics
For something that's not listed here or to ask about purchasing parts, please write me an email and we can work something out!
akwebber@gmail.com