Anna Webber - Shimmer Wince - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Every new album by saxophonist, flutist, and composer Anna Webber feels like a revelation, and a huge step forward in a discography of the highest quality. Anna Webber's simpletrio2000 which comes a decade after the of the group's debut Simple, expresses their deep curiosity and tireless creativity. At the intersection of avant-garde jazz and new classical music, Webber's work has been hailed as Inchvisionary and captivatingInch. With her previous albums, she has regularly ranked at the top of the relevant charts. The Simple Trio is her longest-running band. Since it's formation in 2013, few bands in improvised music have displayed such an effervescent energy and adventurous spirit. The group, which also includes drummer John Hollenbeck and pianist Matt Mitchell - both accomplished composers and bandleaders - makes music that is anything but 'simple'. But the complexity of the music, which cannot be ignored, is accompanied by a stormy cheerfulness, and Peter Margasak raves about the Inchaddictive energy and interplay occurring within the trio at all times.Inch

Source of an all-time 'Breaks and Beats' classic, Mr Bongo reissue Herman Kelly's timeless 1978 album Percussion Explosion!. Immortalised in hip-hop folklore, when the anthemic 'Dance To The Drummer's Beat' was featured on the influential Ultimate Breaks & Beats compilation series in 1986.Percussion Explosion! Was the brainchild of drummer, percussionist, producer and arranger, Herman Kelly and his percussive disco-funk group from Miami, 'Life', that featured Aaron McCarthy, Oliver Well, John DeMonica, Michal Cordoza and Travis Biggs. The album houses a collection of disco, funk and Latin-inspired cuts that were destined for greatness. Nestled within the grooves is the B-Boy and B-Girl's anthem, 'Dance To The Drummer's Beat', which contains a now legendary break. A cursory glance at Whosampled will show that it has been sampled in over 125+ songs. These include Double Dee & Steinski on their groundbreaking 1985 production 'Lesson 3 (History Of Hip Hop Mix)', as well as by DJ Shadow, N.W.A, Masters At Work, Run D.M.C. and a whole host of heavyweights across hip-hop, dance and pop music.When the album was released in 1978 it came out on two different labels, Alston Records and Electric Cat. Each tag pressed different versions of 'Dance To The Drummer's Beat', with the former featuring a 4 12 version and the latter a longer 5 09 version that has a different structure, crowd noise at the start and overdubbed percussion. For this Mr Bongo reissue, we have chosen the classic 4 12 version from the Alston Records , which would later find it's way on to the illustrious Ultimate Breaks & Beats compilation. To make matters even more confusing the Alston version art on the back cover also states the track length as 5 09, whilst the centre tag lists it correctly as 4 12. Aside from the much celebrated 'Dance To The Drummer's Beat', the album includes a range of other fantastic ov

Idiom by composer/saxophonist/ flutist Anna Webber is the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed Clockwise, which the Wall Street Journal called Inchvisionary and captivatingInch and NPR described as Inchheady music [that] appeal to the rest of the body.Inch Idiom is a series of six pieces, each of which is based on a specific woodwind extended technique - a broad term meaning any non-traditional way of producing sound on an instrument, including the use of multiphonics, alternate fingerings, key clicks, overblown notes, and the like - that she has taken from her own improvisational language. The works are the upshot of her belief that jazz composers/performers are in a privileged position to create the perfect vehicles for themselves as improvisers. As a frequent user of extended techniques in her own playing, Webber set out to create a continuum between her compositional and improvisatory vocabulary, orchestrating these effects across the ensemble, and applying them to different instruments. They are also used to generate chords and scales and, overall, gave license to utilize other naturally occurring sounds, opening up whole new worlds of mysterious sonic combinations and orchestrations.InchIdiom IIInch from this book of compositions appeared on Clockwise, while the new project - spread out over two volumes - comprises the other five InchIdiomInch pieces. The first four of these feature her Simple Trio - Webber with drummer John Hollenbeck and pianist Matt Mitchell - which has been her primary working group for the past eight years. The hour-long InchIdiom VIInch is performed by a twelve-piece ensemble that brings together a mix of musicians equally split between improvisors and new music specialists. With Idiom, Webber has created a singular sonic world, a bold magnum opus that paves a new path for the amalgamation of cutting-edge composition and improvisation.