Eberhard Weber
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Eberhard Weber is a German
double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz
, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded as characteristic examples of the ECM Records
sound.
(ECM 1042), as a leader under his own name in 1973. In addition to his career as a musician, he also worked for many years as a television and theater director. He has designed an electric-acoustic bass featuring an extra C-string.
His music, often in a melancholic tone, follows simple ground patterns (frequently ostinato
s), yet is highly organized in its colouring and attention to dramatic detail.
Weber was a notable early proponent of the solid-body electric double bass
, which he has played regularly since the beginning of the 1970s.
From the early 1960s to the early 1970s, his closest musical association was with pianist Wolfgang Dauner
. Their many mutual projects were very diverse, from mainstream jazz to jazz-rock fusion to avant-garde sound experiments. During this period he also played and recorded with (among many others) pianists Hampton Hawes
and Mal Waldron
, guitarists Baden Powell de Aquino
and Joe Pass
, The Mike Gibbs Orchestra and violinist Stephane Grappelli
.
Starting with The Colours of Chloë, he has released 10 more records under his own name, all on ECM. The ECM association also led to collaborations with other ECM recording artists such as Gary Burton
(Ring, 1974; Passengers, 1976), Ralph Towner
(Solstice
, 1975; Solstice/Sound and Shadows
, 1977), Pat Metheny
(Watercolors
, 1977), and Jan Garbarek
(9 recordings between 1978 and 1998).
In the mid-1970s he formed his own group, Colours, with Charlie Mariano
(soprano saxophone, flutes), Rainer Brüninghaus
(piano, synthesizer), and Jon Christensen
(drums). After their first recording, Yellow Fields (1975), Christensen left and was replaced by John Marshall
. The group toured extensively and recorded two further records, Silent Feet (1977) and Little Movements (1980), before disbanding.
Since the early 1980s, Weber has regularly collaborated with the British singer-songwriter Kate Bush
, playing on four out of her last five studio albums (The Dreaming
, 1982; Hounds of Love
, 1985; The Sensual World
, 1989; Aerial
, 2005).
During the 1980s, Weber toured with Barbara Thompson's jazz ensemble Paraphernalia.
Since the early 1990s his performing and recording activity has decreased considerably—he has had only two new recordings under his own name since 1990. Nevertheless his 2001 release "Endless Days" is perhaps the most elemental fusion of jazz and classical yet realized, the true epitome of chamber jazz
. His main touring activity during this period has been as a regular member of the Jan Garbarek Group. His latest releases are Stages of a Long Journey and Colours, both collections of live recordings made in March 2005 on the occasion of his 65th birthday, including collaborations with Burton, Dauner, Garbarek and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
As of June 2007, reports have surfaced that Weber has suffered a stroke
and is currently unable to perform. In a January 2010 interview with Die Welt
, he spoke about his medical condition and future projects.
Weber was awarded the prestigious Albert Mangelsdorff-Preis in November, 2009. A box set of his 1970's works with Colours was released by ECM Records the same month.
Compilation:
With Kate Bush
With Jan Garbarek
With Pat Metheny
With Ralph Towner
With Mal Waldron
With others
See "External Links" below for a complete discography
(by Richard Adams) for the names of his compositions and albums. Examples include "Silent Feet" and "Eyes That Can See in the Dark" from the Silent Feet album; "Often in the Open" from the Later That Evening album; and "Quiet Departures" and the title track on the Fluid Rustle album.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz
Chamber jazz
Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz based around small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important. It is influenced aesthetically by musical neoclassicism and is often influenced by classical forms of non-Western music. That stated in many cases the influence is traditional Celtic...
, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded as characteristic examples of the ECM Records
ECM (record label)
ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...
sound.
Biography
He began recording in the early 1960s, and released his first record, The Colours of ChloëThe Colours of Chloë
The Colours of Chloë is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1973 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM 1042), as a leader under his own name in 1973. In addition to his career as a musician, he also worked for many years as a television and theater director. He has designed an electric-acoustic bass featuring an extra C-string.
His music, often in a melancholic tone, follows simple ground patterns (frequently ostinato
Ostinato
In music, an ostinato is a motif or phrase, which is persistently repeated in the same musical voice. An ostinato is always a succession of equal sounds, wherein each note always has the same weight or stress. The repeating idea may be a rhythmic pattern, part of a tune, or a complete melody in...
s), yet is highly organized in its colouring and attention to dramatic detail.
Weber was a notable early proponent of the solid-body electric double bass
Electric upright bass
The electric upright bass is an electronically amplified version of the double bass that has a minimal or 'skeleton' body, which greatly reduces the size and weight of the instrument. The EUB retains enough of the features of the double bass so that double bass players are comfortable performing...
, which he has played regularly since the beginning of the 1970s.
From the early 1960s to the early 1970s, his closest musical association was with pianist Wolfgang Dauner
Wolfgang Dauner
Wolfgang Dauner is a German jazz fusion pianist, composer and keyboardist born in Stuttgart, Germany, probably best known for his work in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and with musicians such as Hans Koller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel or Ack van Rooyen...
. Their many mutual projects were very diverse, from mainstream jazz to jazz-rock fusion to avant-garde sound experiments. During this period he also played and recorded with (among many others) pianists Hampton Hawes
Hampton Hawes
Hampton Hawes was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz pianist, recognized as one of the finest and most influential of the 1950s.-Biography:...
and Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron
Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...
, guitarists Baden Powell de Aquino
Baden Powell de Aquino
Baden Powell de Aquino usually known simply as Baden Powell, was one of the greatest Brazilian guitarists. He explored the instrument to its utmost limits, playing it in a distinctive, unique manner, incorporating virtuoso classical techniques together with popular harmony and swing...
and Joe Pass
Joe Pass
Joe Pass was an Italian-American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century...
, The Mike Gibbs Orchestra and violinist Stephane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....
.
Starting with The Colours of Chloë, he has released 10 more records under his own name, all on ECM. The ECM association also led to collaborations with other ECM recording artists such as Gary Burton
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. This approach caused Burton to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated...
(Ring, 1974; Passengers, 1976), Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...
(Solstice
Solstice (Ralph Towner album)
Solstice is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1975. It features Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen....
, 1975; Solstice/Sound and Shadows
Solstice/Sound and Shadows
Solstice/Sound and Shadows is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1977. It is the second album to feature the Solstice quartet of Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen....
, 1977), Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
(Watercolors
Watercolors (album)
Watercolors is Pat Metheny's second album, released in 1977.The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awards the album 4 stars and states: "Metheny's softly focused, asymmetrical guitar style, with echoes of apparent influences as disparate as Jim Hall, George Benson, Jerry Garcia, and various...
, 1977), and Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czesław Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter...
(9 recordings between 1978 and 1998).
In the mid-1970s he formed his own group, Colours, with Charlie Mariano
Charlie Mariano
Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....
(soprano saxophone, flutes), Rainer Brüninghaus
Rainer Brüninghaus
Rainer Brüninghaus is a German jazz pianist and composer.Born in Bad Pyrmont, Germany, Brüninghaus began in the jazz rock group Eiliff. In 1973 he joined the band of German jazz guitarist Volker Kriegel. In 1975 with bassist Eberhard Weber and Charlie Mariano he formed the band Colours...
(piano, synthesizer), and Jon Christensen
Jon Christensen
Jon Christensen is a Norwegian jazz percussionist.In the late 1960s he played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell....
(drums). After their first recording, Yellow Fields (1975), Christensen left and was replaced by John Marshall
John Stanley Marshall
John Stanley Marshall, better known as John Marshall, born 28 August 1941 in Isleworth, Middlesex, is an English drummer. He was a founding member of the jazz rock band Nucleus and has worked with various other jazz and rock bands and musicians, among them J.J...
. The group toured extensively and recorded two further records, Silent Feet (1977) and Little Movements (1980), before disbanding.
Since the early 1980s, Weber has regularly collaborated with the British singer-songwriter Kate Bush
Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...
, playing on four out of her last five studio albums (The Dreaming
The Dreaming (album)
-Personnel:*Stewart Arnold: vocals, background vocals*Jimmy Bain: bass*Ian Bairnson: acoustic guitar, vocals, background vocals*John Barrett: assistant engineer*Brian Bath: electric guitar*Haydn Bendall: engineer...
, 1982; Hounds of Love
Hounds of Love
Hounds of Love is a 1985 album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was Bush's fifth studio album, and her second no. 1. It has since been certified Double Platinum in the UK...
, 1985; The Sensual World
The Sensual World
-Personnel:*Haydn Bendall: engineer*Andrew Boland: engineer*Stoyanka Boneva: vocals*Kate Bush: piano, keyboards, vocals, background vocals, producer*Paddy Bush: mandolin, background vocals, valiha, whip, tupan*Clare Connors: violin...
, 1989; Aerial
Aerial (album)
Aerial is the eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter and musician Kate Bush.-Overview:Aerial is Bush's first double album, and was released after a twelve year absence from the music industry during which Bush devoted her time to family and the rearing of her son, Bertie...
, 2005).
During the 1980s, Weber toured with Barbara Thompson's jazz ensemble Paraphernalia.
Since the early 1990s his performing and recording activity has decreased considerably—he has had only two new recordings under his own name since 1990. Nevertheless his 2001 release "Endless Days" is perhaps the most elemental fusion of jazz and classical yet realized, the true epitome of chamber jazz
Chamber jazz
Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz based around small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important. It is influenced aesthetically by musical neoclassicism and is often influenced by classical forms of non-Western music. That stated in many cases the influence is traditional Celtic...
. His main touring activity during this period has been as a regular member of the Jan Garbarek Group. His latest releases are Stages of a Long Journey and Colours, both collections of live recordings made in March 2005 on the occasion of his 65th birthday, including collaborations with Burton, Dauner, Garbarek and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
As of June 2007, reports have surfaced that Weber has suffered a stroke
Stroke
A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
and is currently unable to perform. In a January 2010 interview with Die Welt
Die Welt
Die Welt is a German national daily newspaper published by the Axel Springer AG company.It was founded in Hamburg in 1946 by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a "quality newspaper" modelled on The Times...
, he spoke about his medical condition and future projects.
Weber was awarded the prestigious Albert Mangelsdorff-Preis in November, 2009. A box set of his 1970's works with Colours was released by ECM Records the same month.
As leader
- The Colours of ChloëThe Colours of ChloëThe Colours of Chloë is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1973 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(1973) - Yellow FieldsYellow FieldsYellow Fields is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1975 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.-Track listing:# "Touch" - 5:02# "Sand-Glass" - 15:34...
(1975) - The Following MorningThe Following MorningThe Following Morning is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1976 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(1976) - Silent FeetSilent FeetSilent Feet is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1977 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Emphasizing long tones, contrasting sound with silence.....
(1977) - Fluid RustleFluid RustleFluid Rustle is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.-Track listing:# "Quiet Departures" - 17:29# "Fluid Rustle" - 7:28...
(1978) - Little MovementsLittle MovementsLittle Movements is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1980 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(1980) - Later That EveningLater That EveningLater That Evening is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1982 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(1982) - ChorusChorus (Eberhard Weber album)Chorus is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber featuring Jan Garbarek and Ralf-R. Hübner recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label.-Track listing:# "Part I" - 7:32# "Part II" - 5:31# "Part III/IV" - 8:03# "Part V" - 3:23...
(1984) - OrchestraOrchestra (Eberhard Weber album)Pendulum is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1988 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 2 stars stating "Glorious sound, little "pure jazz" content though"....
(1988) - Pendulum (1993)
- Endless Days (2001)
- Stages of a Long Journey (2007)
Compilation:
- Works (1985)
- Selected Recordings (2004)
- Colours (2010) (reissue of 'Yellow Fields', 'Silent Feet' and 'Little Movements')
As sideman
With Gary BurtonGary Burton
Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. This approach caused Burton to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated...
- RingRing (Gary Burton album)Ring is an album by the Gary Burton Quintet with Eberhard Weber.-Track listing:#"Mevlevia" - 6:01#"Unfinished Sympathy" - 3:03#"Tunnel Of Love" - 5:30#"Intrude" - 4:47...
(ECM, 1974) - PassengersPassengers (Gary Burton album)Passengers is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton's Quartet with bassist Eberhard Weber recorded in 1976 and released on the ECM label in 1977...
(ECM, 1976)
With Kate Bush
Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...
- The DreamingThe Dreaming (album)-Personnel:*Stewart Arnold: vocals, background vocals*Jimmy Bain: bass*Ian Bairnson: acoustic guitar, vocals, background vocals*John Barrett: assistant engineer*Brian Bath: electric guitar*Haydn Bendall: engineer...
(1982) - Hounds of LoveHounds of LoveHounds of Love is a 1985 album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was Bush's fifth studio album, and her second no. 1. It has since been certified Double Platinum in the UK...
(1985) - The Sensual WorldThe Sensual World-Personnel:*Haydn Bendall: engineer*Andrew Boland: engineer*Stoyanka Boneva: vocals*Kate Bush: piano, keyboards, vocals, background vocals, producer*Paddy Bush: mandolin, background vocals, valiha, whip, tupan*Clare Connors: violin...
(1989) - AerialAerial (album)Aerial is the eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter and musician Kate Bush.-Overview:Aerial is Bush's first double album, and was released after a twelve year absence from the music industry during which Bush devoted her time to family and the rearing of her son, Bertie...
(2005)
With Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czesław Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter...
- Paths, PrintsPaths, PrintsPaths, Prints is an album by Norwegian jazz composer and saxophonist Jan Garbarek recorded in 1980 and released on the ECM label in 1981.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1981) - WayfarerWayfarer (album)Wayfarer is an album by the Jan Garbarek Group, featuring the Norwegian saxophonist Garbarek with Bill Frisell, Eberhard Weber and Michael Di Pasqua...
(ECM, 1983) - It's OK to Listen to the Gray VoiceIt's OK to Listen to the Gray VoiceIt's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice is an album by the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek released on the ECM label and performed by Garbarek, David Torn, Eberhard Weber and Michael Di Pasqua.-Track listing:# "White Noise of Forgetfulness - 8:22...
(ECM, 1985) - All Those Born With WingsAll Those Born with WingsAll Those Born With Wings is a solo album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, released on the ECM label in 1987.On this recording he can be heard playing all the instruments, including keyboards, percussion, guitar and voice in addition to multitracked saxophone. The Allmusic review by Mark W. B...
(ECM, 1987) - Legend of the Seven DreamsLegend of the Seven DreamsLegend of the Seven Dreams is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, featuring Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber and Naná Vasconcelos, released on the ECM label in 1988.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Mark W. B...
(ECM, 1988) - I Took Up the RunesI Took Up the RunesI Took Up the Runes is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek released on the ECM label and performed by Garbarek, Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber Nana Vasconcelos, Manu Katché, and Bugge Wesseltoft with Ingor Ánte Áilo Gaup contributing vocals....
(ECM, 1990) - Twelve MoonsTwelve MoonsTwelve Moons is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek recorded in 1992 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.-Track listing:# "Twelve Moons" - 7:35# "Psalm" - 6:33...
(ECM, 1992) - Visible WorldVisible WorldVisible World is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek recorded in 1995 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Chris Kelsey awarded the album 2½ stars stating "This is quiet, contemplative music for the most part -- attractive, but not superficially pretty. Its...
(ECM, 1995) - RitesRites (album)Rites is a double album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek recorded in 1998 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "On one collection, listeners get music for prayer, contemplation, and grief, as well as a funky European read...
(ECM, 1998)
With Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
- WatercolorsWatercolors (album)Watercolors is Pat Metheny's second album, released in 1977.The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awards the album 4 stars and states: "Metheny's softly focused, asymmetrical guitar style, with echoes of apparent influences as disparate as Jim Hall, George Benson, Jerry Garcia, and various...
(ECM, 1977)
With Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...
- SolsticeSolstice (Ralph Towner album)Solstice is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1975. It features Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen....
(ECM, 1975) - Solstice/Sound and ShadowsSolstice/Sound and ShadowsSolstice/Sound and Shadows is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1977. It is the second album to feature the Solstice quartet of Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen....
(ECM, 1977)
With Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron
Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...
- The CallThe Call (Mal Waldron album)The Call is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1971 and released on the JAPO label. The album was the first release on the short-lived European jazz label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars....
(JAPO, 1971)
With others
See "External Links" below for a complete discography
- Wolfgang DaunerWolfgang DaunerWolfgang Dauner is a German jazz fusion pianist, composer and keyboardist born in Stuttgart, Germany, probably best known for his work in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and with musicians such as Hans Koller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel or Ack van Rooyen...
, Dream Talk (1964), Free Action (1967), Output (1970) - Hampton HawesHampton HawesHampton Hawes was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz pianist, recognized as one of the finest and most influential of the 1950s.-Biography:...
, Hamps' Piano (1967) - Baden PowellBaden Powell de AquinoBaden Powell de Aquino usually known simply as Baden Powell, was one of the greatest Brazilian guitarists. He explored the instrument to its utmost limits, playing it in a distinctive, unique manner, incorporating virtuoso classical techniques together with popular harmony and swing...
, Poema en Guitar (1968) - Joe PassJoe PassJoe Pass was an Italian-American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century...
, IntercontinentalIntercontinental (Joe Pass album)Intercontinental is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, released in 1970.-Track listing:# "Chloe" – 5:24# "Meditation" – 5:25...
(1970) - Stephane Grapelli, Afternoon in Paris (1971)
- The Singers UnlimitedThe Singers UnlimitedThe Singers Unlimited were a four part jazz vocal group formed in 1971 by Gene Puerling. Members of the group included Len Dresslar , Bonnie Herman, Don Shelton and Puerling himself....
with Art Van DammeArt Van DammeArt Van Damme was a jazz accordionist.-Biography:Born in Norway, Michigan, he began playing the accordion at age nine and started classical study when his family moved to Chicago in 1934. In 1941 he joined Ben Bernie's band as an accordionist. He adapted Benny Goodman's music to the accordion...
, Invitation (1973) - Benny BaileyBenny BaileyBenny Bailey, born Ernest Harold Bailey , was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz trumpeter.-Biography:...
Islands (1976) - Manfred Schoof OrchestraManfred SchoofManfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpet player.He studied music in Kassel and Cologne.He is a founder of European free jazz and collaborated with Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Brötzmann, Mal Waldron, and Irène Schweizer...
, Reflections (1983) - Graeme RevellGraeme RevellGraeme Revell is a New Zealand film score composer.Revell attended Auckland Grammar School, where he finished his final year in 7A...
, Body of Evidence: Motion Picture Soundtrack (1993)
Literary connections
Weber has, on at least five occasions, drawn on text from the book Watership DownWatership Down
Watership Down is a classic heroic fantasy novel, written by English author Richard Adams, about a small group of rabbits. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology...
(by Richard Adams) for the names of his compositions and albums. Examples include "Silent Feet" and "Eyes That Can See in the Dark" from the Silent Feet album; "Often in the Open" from the Later That Evening album; and "Quiet Departures" and the title track on the Fluid Rustle album.