Out Of Your Head Records

24/09/2025

Webber/Morris Big Band - Unseparate comes out this Friday September 26! 2xLPs are almost done and will start shipping any day now. Here are a few shots from the studio thanks to TJ Huff, as well as an awesome 4.5-star review in DownBeat Magazine (keep swiping to see it). We’re excited to share the full album with you Friday, link in bio to order!

“Chock-full of powerfully expressive writing, energized by spirited playing, Unseparate seems like a soundtrack for troubled times.” —DownBeat Magazine

23/09/2025

CHARLIE PARKER the first single from WRENS - Half of What You See (OOYH 039) is OUT NOW! Stream it anywhere except Spotify via link in comments, and be sure to grab a limited LP via Bandcamp (but if you prefer color vinyl maybe wait for some surprises). Insane album art by TJ Huff.

WRENS is:

Ryan Easter - trumpet, voice, words
Elias Stemeseder - synths, una corda piano
Lester St. Louis - cello, electronics
Jason Nazary - drums, synths

17/09/2025

There is a new single by the Webber/Morris Big Band OUT NOW! This is the second movement from Anna Webber’s Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band suite, titled Pulse. It features three incredible solos by Ryan Easter, Nolan Tsang & Yuhan Su. Check it out via the link the comments!

Thanks to everyone who joined the listening party last night. That was super fun, and we appreciated all the very kind words about the music. Just a reminder that CDs are shipping now and the 2xLP should be done in the next few days, just in time for release day. All Unseparate album art + photography + design by TJ Huff. Enjoy, and thanks for listening!

“...fiercely inventive and expressive.” “Chock full of powerfully expressive writing, energized by spirited playing.” —DownBeat Magazine

15/09/2025

Meet the Webber/Morris Big Band! We are thrilled to be releasing Unseparate (OOYH 037) next week, September 26, on CD, 2xLP, and digital. A few exciting announcements for this week, with more on the way:

We are hosting a listening party on Bandcamp tomorrow 9/16 at 7:30pm EST on Bandcamp (doors at 7:00pm). Anna and Angela will be in the chat answering questions, and we think a few other band members will be too. Come join, it's the only chance to hear the full album before release day! Link to RSVP on the Unseparate Bandcamp page (link in comments).

At midnight tomorrow night (9/16) after the listening party the second single from the album, Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band - Pulse by Anna Webber, will be released everywhere (except Spotify, link to pre-save in the comments).

The album just received an awesome 4.5-star review in DownBeat Magazine, which says "Unseparate is as cinematic a listening experience as anything since Charlie Haden's 1970 epic Liberation Music Orchestra."

And here is the full Webber/Morris Big Band, all photography and design by TJ Huff:

Anna Webber & Angela Morris - tenor saxophone, flute, conductor
Jay Rattman - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute
Charlotte Greve - alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
Adam Schneit - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Lisa Parrott - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet

Nolan Tsang, Ryan Easter, Jake Henry, Kenny Warren - trumpets

Tim Vaughn, Zekkereya El-magharbel, Jen Baker, Reginald Chapman - trombones

Yuhan Su - vibraphone
Dustin Carlson - guitar
Marta Sánchez - piano
Adam Hopkins - bass
Jeff Davis - drums

12/09/2025

Tomas Fujiwara on the cover of Modern Contemporary, featuring Blue Pickup from Dream Up. Photo by , big thanks to for this!

12/09/2025

OUT NOW! Tomas Fujiwara - Dream Up (OOYH 036), featuring his new percussion quartet of Tim Keiper, Kaoru Watanabe, and Patricia Brennan, is now available for purchase on Bandcamp and streaming everywhere. CDs are in stock and shipping, featuring beautiful art + design by TJ Huff, mixed and mastered (and sounding so good) by Nick Lloyd. We promise you haven't heard anything like Dream Up this year! If you like Max Roach's M'Boom, Bobby Hutcherson's many contributions to the classic avant Blue Note records of the 60s, or Tomas' own albums and collaborations with Mary Halvorson and Tomeka Reid, you are going to love this! And you are sure to hear the influence of Tomas' long run in the Broadway musical STOMP from early in his NYC years. We hope you enjoy this music as much as we do, and we're thrilled to share it with you. Link in the comments to listen and purchase.

Here's what people are saying so far about Dream Up:

"These are ambitious, polyrhythmic, sonically rich, freely mixing influences in pursuit of a sound that is both personal and unclassifiable." --David Adler, JazzTimes

“Fujiwara has an estimable track record as a bandleader and composer, and here is where I think he’s been a bit undervalued. I’d submit Pith and March On — two strong albums he released in 2023 — as recent evidence for the jury. Now we’re about to get a more idiosyncratic effort, Dream Up, from his Percussion Quartet — a group that harnesses global folkloric traditions in a modern framework of his design.” –Nate Chinen, Take Five

"Every track is an excursion into fresh sounds wrought from ancient folk forms." --Victor Aaron, Something Else! Reviews

09/09/2025

Great review of Tomas Fujiwara - Dream Up from Filipe Freitas at JazzTrail! Come hang out with us tomorrow at 2:00pm EST for a listening party...it's the only place to hear the album before it comes out this Friday. See you there!

Label: Out of Your Head Records, 2025 Personnel- Tomas Fujiwara: drums, composition; Patricia Brennan: vibraphopne; Tim Keiper: ngoni, calabash, temple blocks, timbale, djembe, castanets, balafon, found objects; Kaoru Watanabe: o-jimedaiko, uchiwadaiko, shimedaiko, shinobue.

09/09/2025

Before You’re Gone, the first single from Laura Ann Singh - Mean Reds (OOYH 038) is out now and streaming everywhere! Check it out via the link in the comments. Laura Ann’s Fracas Quintet is features Scott Clark on drums (with some co-writing credits), John Lilley on reeds, Bob Miller on trumpet, and Adam Hopkins on bass. Mean Reds comes out October 24, but we have LPs in stock and they sound incredible…they’ll be shipping this week, so grab one if you want an early listen of the whole album. We’ll also have a very limited number of test pressings signed by the whole band up for sale on Bandcamp later today. All art + photography + design by TJ Huff. We hope you enjoy this!

08/09/2025

Richmond, TONIGHT 9/8 at Artspace, don't miss! Laura Ann Singh Fracas Quintet (with Scott Clark, John Lilley, Bob Miller, and Adam Hopkins) plays new music and music from the forthcoming album, Mean Reds, out on OOYH Records October 24. LPs are in stock and you can get them here first for the low price of $20, and we'll have a very limited amount of signed test pressings for sale! Also performing is the debut of Scotty Pippin, the drum duo of Richmond legends Scott Clark and Pippin Barnett on drums, percussion, and whatever else they decide to bring! Doors are at 7:30pm, music starts at 8:00pm, for the low low price of $10! The first single from Mean Reds, Before You're Gone, comes out at midnight tonight, and you can pre-save that via the link in the comments (more on that tomorrow).

We also have Webber/Morris Big Band CDs in stock early, and we'll have some copies of that one tonight as well. And a big thanks to Marilyn Drew Necci and The Auricular for the preview of tonight's show as RVA Shows You Must See This Week., and the quote below.

"Fans of Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson might find something to latch onto here, as well lovers of unusual jazz balladry and some of Tom Waits’s spookier stuff." We like that, come see/hear for yourself!

Photo of Laura Ann Singh by TJ Huff and photos of Scott Clark and Pippin Barnett by Peter McElhinney.

05/09/2025

OUT NOW! Gray / Pirog / Ballou - Live at FEMA (OOYH B004), featuring Devin Gray - percussion, Anthony Pirog - guitar, and Dave Ballou - trumpet is out today only on Bandcamp (link in the comments). This is the fourth and final of the inaugural batch of the new all-improvised digital-only series OOYH Records Beacons. Spoiler, it is very good!

This recording documents the first meeting of the three musicians, though all were part of the original Out Of Your Head Collective in Baltimore in the early 2010s. They have long been admirers of each other’s work, but this is the first time they performed as a group. The music here was created spontaneously with no set parameters or discussion. Although there has been no edits made, markers have been placed throughout the recording for convenience. Listening in one sitting will provide a complete experience much as the audience enjoyed.

All Beacons art + design is by TJ Huff. Big thanks to Jeff Cosgrove, Bill Shoemaker, and the Fredrick Experimental Music Association for making this concert possible.

03/09/2025

Super excited to share the next single from Tomas Fujiwara - Dream Up (OOYH 036), Recollection of a Dance, out today! You can check it out on Bandcamp or anywhere you stream via the link in the comments.

Great news, CDs are in stock and shipping now! If you order one soon, you’ll definitely have it before release day of September 12. All CD and single art is by TJ Huff. And remember that one week from today on Weds September 10 at 2pm EST, we’re doing a listening party where you can get an advance listen of Dream Up start to finish. Tomas will be in the chat answering questions. You can RSVP via Bandcamp, and we hope to see you there!

This Friday September 5 we’ll release the last of our first bundle on the Beacons series, Devin Gray / Anthony Pirog / Dave Ballou - Live at FEMA.

Enjoy, much more soon!