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Trevor Watts

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Born in York, England; composer/arranger/alto & sop saxes/piano/percussion. Trevor Watts' family moved to Halifax in Yorkshire when he was 6 months old, and that is where he was brought up. Trevor is a completely self taught musician, and his early inspirations came from his fathers love of Jazz, and the large collection of 78's that his father brought back after living in Canada and visiting the States on many occasions in the 1920's. Trevor had to do his National Service in the RAF, and joined the RAF band in 1959. It was there he met John Stevens and Paul Rutherford amongst others and formed the musical association that was to become the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Amalgam in the early 60's

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Article: Book Review

Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star

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Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star Chris Searle 394 Pages ISBN: 978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz In Britain 2024 Although Marxist-Leninist theory itself has proved to be, at best, a blind alley--and, at worst, in practice the enemy of the freedoms it claims to champion--writers from the Left ...

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The Art Is In The Rhythm Volume 2

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Cardiff 1a; Cariff 1b; Cardiff 2; Cardiff 3. CD2: Cardiff 4 (Encore); Southampton 1; Southampton 2.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Caroline Davis, Hery Paz & Niescier/Reid/Harris

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Highlights: Captivity, the new recording by saxophonist Caroline Davis is a pointedly social justice album focused on creating reflection, interrogation and amplification of the essential conversation around incarceration, the prison industrial complex & abolition. It's a very powerful project. Another excellent alto player, Germany's Angelika Niescier hooked up with premier cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Savannah ...

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Music Farther Outside by Bill Shoemaker

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Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic Bill Shoemaker 213 Pages ISBN: #9781538178775 Rowman & Littlefield 2023 Music Farther Outside is a sequel to two books. First, it is Bill Shoemaker's follow-up to his excellent Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Both ...

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Trevor Watts' Original Drum Orchestra: The Art Is In The Rhythm Volume 2

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A co-founder of London's pioneering Spontaneous Music Ensemble with drummer John Stevens in the mid 1960s, saxophonist Trevor Watts has straddled an unusually wide spectrum of genres. With SME he explored an area of free jazz which, in deliberate contrast to contemporary American adventurers such as Ornette Coleman or members of the Association for the Advancement ...

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Article: Live Review

The Master Musicians Of Joujouka At The Forge

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Every June, what the Guinness Book of Records has dubbed “The Smallest Festival in The World" and Rolling Stone has called “The Most Exclusive Dance Party in The World," is held in the village of Joujouka high in Morocco's Rif mountains. For three days, the Master Musicians of Joujouka play host to trance-music connoisseurs and newbies ...

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Jazz Export Days 2023

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Jazz Export Days Jazz Sous Les Pommiers Coutances, France May 15-17, 2023 Jazz Export Days was a music biz event inserted into an actual public festival, the long-running (42 years!) and highly-regarded Jazz Sous Les Pommiers, in Coutances, a small town in the north-west Normandy region. It's organised by ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Soft Machine from 1973, Trevor Watts from 1976, Vital Information and Dave Weckl band

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Vital Information from Time Flies, Tony Williams from Spectrum Road, Soft Machine, The Dutch Lesson. Trevor Watts fromAnother Time, French trumpeter Erik Truffaz, Italian bassist Pippo Matino, Dave Weckl Band, Tom Coster and Brazilian bassist Fernando Molinari. Playlist Vital Information “Choreography in Six" from Time Flies (Wounded Bird) 00:00 Tony Williams “Wild Life" from ...

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New Music From Guiliana, Ullman, Jukič, Douglas And More

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On this show we feature a wide selection of new releases from Mark Guiliana, Trevor Watts, The Flame (Robert Mitchell, Neil Charles, Mark Sanders), Hummus Crisis, Gebhard Ullmann, Robert Jukič and Dave Douglas with Elan Mehler.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Mark Guiliana “Mischief" from Mischief (Edition) 00:45 Trevor Watts' Original Drum Orchestra “Cardiff 1b" from ...


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