Jazz Articles about Veryan Weston

Veryan Weston: Allusions

by John Eyles
February 17, 2009

With the first batch of 2009 releases--this is the first--Emanem has abandoned jewel case packaging and opted for the far more appealing all-card version, a very welcome change indeed. For years, pianist Veryan Weston has been a stalwart of the label, in a variety of contexts including duos, trios and quartets---most recently with the fine quartet Caetitu (2008).

Allusions is only Weston's second solo album for the label, the first being Tesselations for Lutheal Piano (2003). That album was an ...

Veryan Weston/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Gateway to Vienna

by John Eyles
April 21, 2005

This double CD pairs a studio recording from December 2003 (the Gateway part) with a May 2002 concert recording of two long improvisations (the Vienna part). When this trio released their previous Emanem CD Mercury Concert in 1999, Veryan Weston was described as “underrated and John Edwards and Mark Sanders were described as “younger, unacclaimed players who are regulars on the London improv circuit. In the intervening years, Edwards and Sanders have advanced in acclaim, to the point where they ...

Veryan Weston: Tessellations for Lutheal Piano (2003)

by Glenn Astarita
October 6, 2003

Improvising pianist Veryan Weston treads cerebral territory during this adventurous undertaking, performed on the Lutheal piano. Created in 1918 by a Belgian named George Cloethens, the instrument was fabricated as a mechanism that could be installed into a grand piano. But the original instrument was presumably destroyed by fire, and so Weston trekked to the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels to perform on the other Lutheal piano. The keyboard Weston uses here was built in 1922 and is purportedly ...

Veryan Weston/Caroline Kraabel: Five Shadows

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2001

The aptly titled Five Shadows documents a series of piano/saxophone duets which often feature more open space than sound. Because of the relatively sparse nature of these improvisations, the notes that are played tend to acquire special meaning. Each of the five tracks on this disc represents a separate performance with its own characteristic acoustics and approach. Overall, Weston's piano playing on Five Shadows avoids conventional melody or polyphony, preferring instead to utilize light runs and trills, with interspersed punchy ...