Eberhard Weber is not simply one of the most inventive bassists in jazz and improvised music, able to handle everything from swinging triplet and rock-based patterns to free playing. He is also - and primarily - a poet of his instrument. His lyrical, wide-ranging yet thoroughly distilled music is marked by both a sense of the poignancy that attends the temporality of existence and the larger, affirmative impulse that may be experienced following creative reflection upon that condition. Weber was born in Stuttgart in 1940. At the age of six he was introduced to the cello by his father, a classically trained string player with a penchant for the French Impressionist composers. A decade or so after the young Weber had been introduced to the cello by his father, he began to listen to jazz.

"The Colours of Chloe", Weber's ECM debut as leader [1973] marked the first appearance, of what Weber calls his electrobass - the customised instrument with an additional treble C string, which unites a solid body with an acoustic-like neck and which has an almost sculptural quality to its design. At once warmly human and otherworldly in sound, and capable of projecting both the most intimate of reflections and propulsive of lines out into resonant space, the potentialities of the electrobass fuelled Weber's longstanding desire to move away from the traditional roles of his instrument. A new technology, developed in large part by the bassist himself, had helped him shape a new poetics, a new music. Years later, he would embrace with equal enthusiasm and sensitivity the possibilities offered by digital delay and loops. Following his appearance on Garbarek's 1978 "Photo With" album, he has spent over twenty years in the saxophonist's company, contributing to a further eight of his albums to date. The combination of his soulful sound, disciplined improvisational flair and cross-cultural sensitivity to ensemble values continues to play a crucial role in the world-wide popularity of the various groups led by Jan Garbarek. In the 1982 "Later That Evening" Weber and Frisell were joined by Paul McCandless, Lyle Mays and Michael DiPasqua, with whom Weber would work for several years, together with first Bill Frisell and then David Torn on electric guitar, in the Jan Garbarek Group of the mid-1980s. Perfect intonation and musical intuition for open spaces and melodic beauty define Weber's musical work. His name is representative of the emancipation of the bass, from its former role.Eberhard Weber performed on the albums "Vananda" (LM016-2) and "Asate" (LM028-2) by the composer and guitarist Andreas Georgiou, published by "LIBRA MUSIC". In these albums also features the Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira and the Greek vocalist Savina Yiannatou.