“Here is a jazz band that is tightly arranged and gorgeously free, a new music ensemble that improvises and plays with precision, a complex modern idiom rendered with scuffed-up life… the Webber/Morris Big Band jumps out like a joy.” – Will Layman, Pop Matters
Unseparate is the sophomore album from the Webber/Morris Big Band. It came out in October 2025 on Out Of Your Head Records and we are very proud of it! Not only that, but other people seem to like it – we were named the top of the “Rising Star – Large Ensemble” Category in Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll, and we won the German Prize for “Large Ensemble of the Year – International”! You can check the music out online on Bandcamp, as well as buy vinyl and CDs. It’s also available everywhere else where you get music online with the notable exception of Spotify.
Unseparate is as cinematic a listening experience as anything since Charlie Haden’s 1970 epic Liberation Music Orchestra. -James Hale, Downbeat (4.5 stars)
About
Anna Webber and Angela Morris, two composer-performers whose music overturns expectations for the jazz big band, have co-led this ensemble of stellar New York improvisers since 2015. Their sophomore album, Unseparate, was released on Out Of Your Head Records in 2025 and won them the German Jazz Prize for Large Ensemble of the Year – International, as well as the “Rising Star – Large Ensemble” Category in Downbeat Magazine’s 2025 Critic’s Poll. Their critically acclaimed debut album, Both Are True (Greenleaf Music), was featured on several Best of 2020 lists including The New York Times, Bandcamp, and NPR.
The band’s instrumentation is a jazz staple, but the composers’ respective pieces are equally rooted in minimalism, pop, noise, and other music of the past century or so. Integrating improvisation and composed material in unorthodox ways and using extra-musical sources – such as poetry or mathematics – to form the foundation of new works, the traditional big band sound mutates into something unpredictable. The saxophonists take turns filling the tenor chair while the other conducts her own works.
Anna Webber is a flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live in the overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. She was recently named a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow and 2024 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts Fellow, and is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Webber is originally from British Columbia.
Angela Morris is a Brooklyn-based saxophonist and composer who thrives in the loop between avant-jazz, new music, and pop. Alongside her own projects, Morris has performed with Myra Melfod, Helado Negro, Jessica Pavone, and Jason Ajemian. Morris has curated the experimental concert series Brackish – music & art since 2015.
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Sheet Music
Scores are available on Anna and Angela’s individual Bandcamp pages. You can contact Anna or Angela directly if there is a specific piece you would like to perform a specific piece and would like to purchase parts.
Both Are True
Our first album, Both Are True (Greenleaf Music, 2020) can be ordered on CD / digital at Bandcamp or wherever else you listen to music.
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