Some of my songs

“Here is a writer not content with peddling jazz covers but a composer hell bent on writing some new jazz standards” – Blues & Soul

“What sets this album apart is the quality of Webb’s writing and arranging … his songs have a timeless quality, many of them sound as if they ought to be standards” – TheJazzmann.com

“Webb’s songwriting has a timeless quality: I checked the album credits more than once, convinced I was listening to a forgotten vintage song, only to find it was one of his” – Jazz Journal

“Original songs by Alex Webb both lyrically and musically nail the times” – Womanaroundtown.com

“An amazing songwriter” – Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Jazzwise

“Original songs penned by Webb … are bright, tuneful surprises” – Bistroawards.com

“Webb has that reliable musician’s ear for well-crafted and pleasant songs”  – London Jazz Blog

You can hear Webb compositions and co-writes on these CD releases:

Rebecca Poole, Dreamer’s Ball (Purdy Music);  Deelee Dube, Trying Times (Concord Jazz); Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Roadrunner (Hill And Gully) & Ocean Floor (LSO); Alexander Stewart, I Thought About You (ASM) & All Or Nothing At All (ASM); China Moses, Crazy Blues (French Universal); Mina Agossi, Red Eyes (Naive Records); Gena West, Stay Free (Stage2Stage); Liane Carroll, Slow Down (Splash Point Records); Alexia Gardner, Chasing Hope (Amiata Emozioni); Wendy Guevara, Destiny, Dreams, Desire (GuevaraCD).

Influences? All the Bs, certainly: Bach, Beethoven, Bruckner, Bessie, Billie, Basie, Bud Powell, Chet Baker, Betty Carter, James Brown, Anita Baker, Chico Buarque, Jacques Brel, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Beatles … and of course Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids.

Liane Carroll singing the Alex Webb composition Words I Never Spoke:

China Moses singing the Alex Webb-China Moses-Raphael Lemonnier composition The Mailman, The Butcher, And Me:

Alexia Gardner singing the Alex Webb composition Forbidden Fruit:

Kocoa singing the Alex Webb composition World Stopped Turning:

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The Hard Way, performed by Alexander Stewart with China Moses

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Alexander Stewart singing the Alex Webb composition Waste Of A Love Affair at Ronnie Scott’s, London:

The Alex Webb composition Heaven, performed by Christabel: