Jazz Articles about Veryan Weston

Veryan Weston: Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 4, 2017

Nativo della Cornovaglia (1950) ma trasferitosi a Londra poco più che ventenne (1972), Veryan Weston, generalmente dedito al pianoforte, si rivolge in questo tutto sommato singolare album all'organo a canne, riunendovi sette improvvisazioni di durate anche molto dissimili (dai 2'48" della prima ai 24 dell'ultima) effettuate in sette chiese e sette città diverse nel marzo 2014. Il clima che si respira in questa ora abbondante di musica è scuro, cogitabondo, abbastanza dispersivo nel suo sdipanarsi, praticamente privo ...

Veryan Weston: Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs

by John Eyles
January 21, 2017

This new solo album from keyboardist Veryan Weston was recorded in May 2014 on tracker action organs in seven churches located around England. The recordings here document some of the preparatory research that Weston did ahead of a tour of churches with tracker action organs. That tour involved Weston plus violinist Jon Rose and cellist Hannah Marshall, so this album should be considered a companion piece to Tuning Out (Emanem, 2015), the album recorded on the tour. As ...

Veryan Weston / Jon Rose / Hannah Marshall: Tuning Out

by John Eyles
January 22, 2016

There is a very interesting project awaiting some lucky (and patient) individual, researching the role that churches played in the spread of improvised music in Britain. To clear up any ambiguity, that “churches" refers to the buildings themselves rather than their human members. Any devotee of improvised music in Britain will probably have spent far more time in church than many (so-called) devout Christians, as churches are frequently used to host gigs and also as recording spaces. That has nothing ...

Veryan Weston: Different Tesselations

by John Eyles
June 17, 2011

Different Tesselations must be considered as a companion piece to Tesselations for Luthéal Piano (Emanem 2003), the album on which Veryan Weston debuted his sequence of 52 closely linked pentatonic scales in a piece he called “Tesselations"--so named, he said, because it “contains structures which have, by coincidence, similarities with some of the principles of geometric tessellations." For the 2003 album, Weston recorded five pieces, each of which utilized from six to fourteen of the scales. He recorded the pieces ...

Veryan Weston / Leo Svirsky / The Vociferous Choir: Different Tessellations

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 12, 2011

In the realm of tessellations--the juxtaposition of elements into a coherent pattern--the only ones that could match Different Tessellations in terms of intrigue and seduction--composed by Veryan Weston and recorded here by prodigiously talented pianist Leo Svirsky and the Vociferous Choir--is Maurits C. Escher's Circle Limit III. The Escher is visual art at its finest, a tantalizing woodcut standing in all its maddening glory, against all other two- and three-dimensional art. But even this barely compares to Weston's musical vision, ...

Veryan Weston: Allusions

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 23, 2009

Come insegnano i dizionari, “L'allusione è una figura retorica e consiste nell'uso di un sostantivo, spesso derivato da un fatto storico o comunemente noto, che abbia un rapporto di somiglianza con l'oggetto in questione. Esempi: 1) Allusione mitologica: “un labirinto" (un intrico di strade) - 2) Allusione storica: “vittoria di Pirro" (un successo ottenuto a caro prezzo) - 3) Allusione letteraria: “un don Abbondio" (un vigliacco)". In geometria piana, si dicono invece tassellature (talvolta tassellazioni o pavimentazioni) “i modi di ...

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 ...