Hommage à Eberhard Weber EPK, ECM Records

Hommage à Eberhard Weber Pat Metheny: guitar Jan Garbarek: saxophones Gary Burton: vibraphone Scott Colley: double bass Danny Gottlieb: drums Paul McCandless: oboe Michael Gibbs: conductor, arranger Helge Sunde: conductor SWR Big Band +++++ CD, Download, Streaming: In January 2015 musicians and listeners converged upon Stuttgarts Theaterhaus for two consecutive nights to celebrate the 75th birthday of Eberhard Weber. The concerts centered around a specially commissioned 35minute suite by Pat Metheny, with whom Weber had played and recorded back in the 1970s. Featuring Metheny, the SWR Big Band conducted by Helge Sunde, Gary Burton, bassist Scott Colley and Danny Gottlieb on drums, the composition was arranged around recordings of solos by Weber. Other performers during the two nights playing selections from Webers vast body of work were Webers longtime companions Jan Garbarek, Paul McCandless, and arranger Michael Gibbs,