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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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The First Touch

By Trevor Watts

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2026
Track listing: Lublin; Emerging; Crossing Points; Birth Of The Voice; Threshold Of Sound; Connection; The Shared Moment.

Article: Album Review

Trevor Watts / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: The First Touch

Read "The First Touch" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 29, 2026

Trevor Watts and Barry Guy's near 60-year musical acquaintance yields an immediacy that continues undiminished on The First Touch. Recorded live in Poland in 2025 with drummer Ramon Lopez, a frequent cohort of the bassist, the seven tracks capture a trio whose empathy is matched by its appetite for risk. Although Watts' saxophones and Guy's bass ...

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Gravity

By Eternal Triangle

Label: Jazz Now Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sure; Dig; Mid; Jamon; Gravity; Minniss; September; Ghana Friends; Sopstance; Infra Structure.

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Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company

By Elton Dean

Label: Ogun Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Unda; Rising; Seven For Lee; Small Strides; Fall In Free; One Three Nine.

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Elton Dean: Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company

Read "Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 2, 2024

A vitally important platform for apartheid-era expatriate South African musicians, Ogun Records was founded in London in 1973 by the bassist Harry Miller, then in self-exile from South Africa, and his wife, Hazel Miller. Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo were among those recording with Ogun in the 1970s under their ...

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Friends & Neighbors: Circles

by John Sharpe
May 26, 2024

Even some 60 years after its birth, the free jazz of the American New Thing remains a fertile source of inspiration in 2024. On its sixth album, Circles, Norwegian quintet Friends & Neighbors continues to find rich avenues to explore in its updated repurposing of the naked expressionism of the 1960's avant-garde. An unchanged line up ...

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Eternal Triangle: Gravity

by Jack Kenny
May 25, 2024

What a coup on the part of Jazz in Britain to celebrate the launch of their new label with veteran Trevor Watts. It is a great experience listening to an eighty-five-year-old playing like an unshackled Ornette Coleman. Jazz in Britain has set up a new music imprint: Jazz Now. The first release is Gravity ...

Article: Book Review

Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star

by Chris May
March 18, 2024

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

By Trevor Watts

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.