Hommage à Eberhard Weber

Hommage à Eberhard Weber is a live tribute album celebrating German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber's 75th birthday recorded by the German public broadcaster SWR in Stuttgart in 2015 featuring Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, Gary Burton, Scott Colley, Danny Gottlieb, Paul McCandless, with Michael Gibbs and Helge Sunde conducting the SWR Big Band which was released on the ECM label.^[1]^[2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
All About Jazz	^[4]
Elmore	95/100^[5]
Daily Telegraph	^[6]
The Guardian	^[7]
The Irish Times	^[8]
Stuff.co.nz	^[9]

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states, "Weber witnessed this concert from the seats; he was by all accounts not only pleased, but moved. This is an understandable response to Hommage à Eberhard Weber, which not only proves an exception to by-the-numbers tribute recordings, but stands as a daunting, creative, and enduring extension of the bassist's work".^[3] On All About Jazz, John Kelman said "Weber is not just all over this record in the various compositions that have been drawn from nearly his entire career, arranged for a series of guests and the SWR Big Band, but he is actually heard—and, for those fortunate enough to have been there, seen— performing in the form of archival video recordings played on a large screen hung above the stage: video samples, then, rather than merely audio samples ... Hommage à Eberhard Weber honors Weber in a way that both appreciates and respects ... and couldn't be a more perfect tribute—or a more perfect gift—to this uniquely talented and influential bassist/composer".^[4] The Guardian's John Fordham stated "Weber's sparing themes and subtle tone-poetry are perhaps better suited to small bands than orchestras, but there's a lot of heartfelt and often beautiful music here for his admirers".^[7] In The Irish Times, Cormac Larkin noted "Hommage is more than a tribute – it breathes new life into the playing of one of the founding fathers of European jazz".^[8] The Telegraph concert review by Sebastian Scotney stated "this weekend's 75th birthday concerts in Stuttgart for the German bassist Eberhard Weber are going to take some beating as the jazz events of the year".^[6]

Track listing

All music is composed by Eberhard Weber except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Résumé Variations"	Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber	8:00
2.	"Hommage"	Pat Metheny	31:33
3.	"Touch"		8:19
4.	"Maurizius"		9:26
5.	"Tübingen"		6:55
6.	"Notes After an Evening"		5:32
Total length:			69:45

Personnel

Eberhard Weber – bass (from tapes)
Pat Metheny – guitars
Klaus-Peter Schöpfer – guitars
Jan Garbarek – soprano saxophone
Gary Burton – vibraphone
Scott Colley – double bass
Decebal Badila – bass
Danny Gottlieb – drums
Guido Jöris – drums, Percussion
Klaus Wagenleiter – Piano, Keyboards
Paul McCandless – English horn, soprano saxophone
Klaus Graf – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet
Axel Kühn – Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Piccolo Flute, Clarinet
Ian Cumming, Marc Godfroid – trombone
Georg Maus – Bass Trombone
Matthias Erlewein – Alto Saxophone, Flute, Piccolo Flute, clarinet
Pierre Paquette – Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
Felice Civitareale, Karl Farrent, Martin Auer, Nemanja Jovanovic, Rudi Reindl – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Andi Maile – Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Flute, Clarinet
Klaus Wagenleiter – Piano, Keyboards
Ernst Hutter – euphonium, trombone
SWR Big Band conducted by Helge Sunde
Michael Gibbs – arranger, conductor (track 4)
Ralf Schmid (track 3), Libor Šíma (track 6), Rainer Tempel (track 5) – arranger

References

^ ECM Records Catalog: 2400 series accessed November 10, 2017
^ Between Sound and Space accessed November 10, 2017
^ ^a ^b Jurek, Thom. Pat Metheny / Jan Garbarek / Gary Burton – Hommage to Eberhard Weber > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Kelman, J., All About Jazz Review, September 4, 2015
^ Clarke, Tom (November 25, 2015). "Pat Metheny and Friends: Hommage à Eberhard Weber". Elmore Magazine. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Scotney, S. Eberhard Weber Jubilee Concert, Stuttgart, review: 'magical', The Telegraph, January 25, 2015
^ ^a ^b Fordham, J., The Guardian Review, October 9, 2015
^ ^a ^b Larkin, C. Irish Times Review, September 18, 2015
^ "Album Review: Hommage To Eberhard Weber". stuff.co.nz. October 29, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2020.

v t e Eberhard Weber
Studio albums	The Colours of Chloë Yellow Fields The Following Morning Silent Feet Fluid Rustle Little Movements Later That Evening Chorus Orchestra Pendulum Endless Days Stages of a Long Journey Résumé Encore
Compilation albums	Works Selected Recordings Colours

v t e Gary Burton
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless this is not known.
As leader or co-leader	New Vibe Man in Town (1961) Who Is Gary Burton? (1962) 3 in Jazz (split with Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry, 1963) Something's Coming! (1963) The Groovy Sound of Music (1964) Tennessee Firebird (1966) The Time Machine (1966) A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967) Lofty Fake Anagram (1967) Duster (1967) Gary Burton Quartet in Concert (1968) Good Vibes (1969–70) Paris Encounter (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1969) Throb (1969) Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970) Live in Tokyo (1971) Alone at Last (1971) Crystal Silence (with Chick Corea, 1972) Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber Orchestra (1973) The New Quartet (1973) Ring (with Eberhard Weber, 1974) Matchbook (with Ralph Towner, 1974) Hotel Hello (with Steve Swallow, 1974) Dreams So Real (1975) Passengers (1976) Times Square (1978) Duet (with Chick Corea, 1978) Easy as Pie (1980) In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 (1979) Picture This (1982) Lyric Suite for Sextet (with Chick Corea, 1982) Real Life Hits (1984) Slide Show (1985) Whiz Kids (1986) Times Like These (1988) Reunion (with Pat Metheny, 1989) Right Time, Right Place (with Paul Bley, 1990) Cool Nights (1991) Six Pack (1991–92) Native Sense - The New Duets (1997) Like Minds (with Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland and Roy Haynes, 1998) Generations (2003) Next Generation (2004) The New Crystal Silence (with Chick Corea, 2007) Quartet Live (2007) Common Ground (2011) Hot House (2012) Time Thread (with Makoto Ozone, 2013) Guided Tour (2013)
With Stan Getz	Getz Au Go Go (1964) Nobody Else but Me (1964) Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 (1966) The Stan Getz Quartet in Paris (1967) The Canadian Concert of Stan Getz (1983)
With others	After the Riot at Newport (Chet Atkins and the Nashville All-Stars, 1960) Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (1964) Tim Hardin 1 (Tim Hardin, 1964–65) Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964) Ingénue (k.d. lang, 1991) Journey (Arif Mardin, 1973) Jazz Concert (George Shearing, 1963) Rare Form! (George Shearing, 1963) Touch Me Softly (George Shearing, 1963) Swallow (Steve Swallow, 1991) Fluid Rustle (Eberhard Weber, 1979) Hommage à Eberhard Weber (2015) Simple Complex (Jon Weber, 2003)

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