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Trevor Watts - Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingTrevor Watts & Veryan Watson: 5 More Dialogues
by Raul d'Gama Rose
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 ...
Continue ReadingTrevor Watts / Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues
by Glenn Astarita
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 ...
Continue ReadingTrevor Watts & Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues
by John Eyles
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 ...
Continue ReadingTrevor Watts: Live in Karlsruhe, Drum Energy, Mutuality, Live in Sao Paulo, Brasil and Ancestry
by Marc Medwin
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 ...
Continue ReadingTrevor Watts: Burundi Monday
by Francis Lo Kee
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 ...
Continue ReadingAmalgam: Innovation
by Rex Butters
In the early '60s Trevor Watts and John Stevens initiated the long-lived free jazz association that became known as Amalgam. Their extended tenure altered Euro jazz and improvised music forever, following their first recording in '69. Tangent records released their third album, Innovation , in 1974, after their Play Blackwell and Higgins set and several sessions recorded with trumpeter Bobby Bradford. Weirdly saddled with a “jazz rock" reputation with the addition of guitarist Keith Rowe after these sessions, the Innovation ...
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