Jazz Articles about Trevor Watts

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Album Review

Trio dalle geometrie inusuali ma non per questo inaudite (pensiamo solo a un ipotetico, assolutamente realistico, Giuffre/Brookmeyer/Manne, le cui temperature fanno del resto capolino in episodi quali “Drachengedankenkampf," “Ninna nanna," per certi versi anche “Domino"), il tedesco Tré poggia le proprie fondamenta sulle larghe volute disegnate dal trombone di Thomas Lüthi, non fosse altro che per un fatto di mero volume sonoro (capita spesso, quando c'è di mezzo un trombone). L'approccio iniziale è corporeo, vitale, estroverso, anche ...

Album Review

Trevor Watts - Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues

Read "5 More Dialogues" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 8, 2012

Dieci anni giusti dopo l'interessante 6 Dialogues uscito sempre per la Emanem, il sassofonista Trevor Watts e il pianista Veryan Weston incrociano nuovamente gli strumenti per dar forma a questi ulteriori “5 Dialoghi" registrati a Londra nella scorsa primavera. Due “devoti" al free e all'usuale forma improvvisativa che analizzano materia musicale sostanzialmente algebrica ove la ricerca del “sacro" interplay vince la gara sugli ovvi protagonismi che, spesso, la difficile figurazione del duo inevitabilmente propone. Watts e Weston sono due vecchie ...

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Album Review

Trevor Watts & Veryan Watson: 5 More Dialogues

Read "5 More Dialogues" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 27, 2011

Their conversations, garrulous and engaged in a monumental dissertation about life, emerge from out of a bottomless musical vortex. Such is the power and energy of 5 More Dialogues--the salvoes of arpeggios, from the hands of Veryan Weston, and the breathtaking glissandi, from the breath of Trevor Watts--that the gloom of nothingness into which the music pours that silence is not merely shattered, it is reborn, with angular echoes and ghostly whispers amid the melodious caterwauling of Weston's flying right ...

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Album Review

Trevor Watts / Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues

Read "5 More Dialogues" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 8, 2011

5 More Dialogues is the successor to 6 Dialogues (Emanem, 2002) and offers more in the way of fascinating elaborations by longtime collaborators, pianist Veryan Weston and saxophonist Trevor Watts, both heralded artisans of the British progressive jazz and improvisational circuit. A mark of invention pervades throughout, as the duo fuses sublime persuasions, inverted theme-building jaunts, and mesmeric passages with fleeting melodies and rhythmical dynamics. Highlighted by a manifold approach to the program, the duo aligns a throng ...

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Album Review

Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues

Read "5 More Dialogues" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
August 14, 2011

The title 5 More Dialogues indicates that this is a sequel to 6 Dialogues (Emanem, 2002), the album which marked saxophonist Trevor Watts' first free improv recording in about two decades. In the years since the release of 6 Dialogues, Watts and pianist Veryan Weston have become an established improvising duo, although their musical association dates back to 1982, when Weston became a member of Watts' Moiré Music. The length of time they have been collaborating gives their music a ...

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Multiple Reviews

Trevor Watts: Live in Karlsruhe, Drum Energy, Mutuality, Live in Sao Paulo, Brasil and Ancestry

by Marc Medwin
October 6, 2007

Moire Music Live in Karlsruhe FMR 2007 Trevor Watts Original Drum Orchestra Drum Energy Hi4Heads 2007 Enjambre Acustico Urukungolo Mutuality FMR 2007 Trevor Watts/Jaime Harris Live in Sao Paulo, Brasil Hi4Heads 2006 Trevor Watts/Jaime Harris Ancestry ...

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Album Review

Trevor Watts: Burundi Monday

Read "Burundi Monday" reviewed by Francis Lo Kee

by Francis Lo Kee
July 8, 2007

American listeners may know Trevor Watts as an accomplished alto/soprano saxophonist, but more likely they will associate him with the British avant-garde. Now in his late sixties, Watts logged a lot of time with blues, rock and traditional jazz bands before joining drummer John Stevens in 1965 to form the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME), a collective that provided a launching pad for many visionary British free improvisers--from Watts to Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Derek Bailey and Barry ...