Webber/Morris Big Band - Both Are True (2020) [Hi-Res]

"Integrating written and improvised material in new ways, Webber and Morris take the big band concept into fresh territory. This is an accomplished conjoint effort."
- Jazz Trail

“Over the course of 58+ minutes, so much happens. Voices step out of the songs, the different sections take on various roles, the music is both introspective and communal, emotional and cool, pulsating and ruminative, yet always alive."
- Richard Kamins, Step Tempest

“Webber and Morris achieve a kind of small-group intimacy in their band's playing, and while their project is part of a continuum, their compositions pull from genres outside jazz, from minimalism to experimental. Such accomplishments are especially noteworthy when nineteen players are involved as they are on this debut recording.”
- Textura

“This is a singular and compelling recording. And just like that, we have our first album of the year candidate. Bravo.”
- Avant Jazz News

"Anna Webber and Angela Morris are a pair of unclassifiable multi-instrumentalists – they each play tenor saxophone and flute, among other things — who recently joined forces to form a big band. It should come as no surprise that this ensemble does a few things differently; I expect that some heads will turn when their debut album, Both Are True, sees release."
- Nate Chinen, WBGO

“…a jagged-edged band that has begun to turn musicians’ heads.”
- Giovanni Russonello, New York Times

“They write to take full advantage of the ensemble, working in dynamics that only a big band could manage. (…) In a sense, the Webber/Morris Big Band is a distillation of the community they discovered and have helped develop.”
- Kurt Gottschalk, Musicworks