Anna Webber, a magnificent composer, saxophonist, flautist, and bandleader, makes her most political statement to date with her new album, It’s Easier to Imagine the End of the World…, for which she assembled a responsive nonet composed of some of the finest and most daring New York improvisers. Juggling progressive ideas with logic and purpose, Webber found inspiration in her beliefs as well as in a number of books about late capitalism and its effects. The track titles reproduce quotes from those books, and the album’s sequence was organized from the darkness of the present moment to the light and hope that will surface from a future direction.
The band navigates her compositional courses with remarkable unity, injecting fragments…
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It has been a five-and-a-half year wait since the debut of this large ensemble co-led by