It has been a five-and-a-half year wait since the debut of this large ensemble co-led by Anna Webber and Angela Morris on saxes and flutes. Both Are True, released in early 2020, was an album of the year. So did they do it again with Unseparate? Yeah, they did.
Webber and Morris lead their outfit through a varied set of harmonic and rhythmic structures, including drones, staccato blasts, soaring melodies that become spiky, and dense contrapuntal passages. The Big Band includes four additional players on woodwinds, four on trumpets, four on trombones, and individuals on vibraphone, guitar, piano, bass, and drums. A group of this size adds a richness and depth to the compositions, with Webber and Morris taking measures so that…

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