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Jazz Musician of the Day: Trevor Watts

Jazz Musician of the Day: Trevor Watts

All About Jazz is celebrating Trevor Watts' birthday today! 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 ...

Article: Album Review

Trevor Watts - Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues

Read "5 More Dialogues" reviewed 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 ...

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5 More Dialogues

Label: Emanem
Released: 2011
Track listing: cuTWOrm; Exchanged Frequencies; rooTWOrm; Frequent Exchanges; flaTWOrm.

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Article: Album Review

Trevor Watts & Veryan Watson: 5 More Dialogues

Read "5 More Dialogues" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Live Review

Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25: Groningen, The Netherlands, August 26-27, 2011

Read "Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25: Groningen, The Netherlands, August 26-27, 2011" reviewed by John Sharpe


Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25Groningen, Netherlands August 26-27, 2011 Only in the Netherlands. Where else would anyone think to create such a harmonious conjugation of jazz and cycling? Now in its 25th year, the annual ZomerJazzFietsTour (Summer Jazz Cycling Tour) takes place in the bucolic countryside just outside Groningen in the northern Netherlands. ...

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Article: Album Review

Trevor Watts / Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues

Read "5 More Dialogues" reviewed 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, ...

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Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston: 5 More Dialogues

Read "5 More Dialogues" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Free Space / Otherways: Life Amid The Artefacts

Read "Free Space / Otherways: Life Amid The Artefacts" reviewed by John Eyles


Free Space / OtherwaysLife Amid The ArtefactsEmanem2011 (1973, 1984) 2010-11 has been a fruitful period for releases highlighting London improvisation in the mid-1970s, with Teatime, previously only issued on vinyl on Incus, getting its first CD issue, as well as More 74 (Incus, 2010) featuring recently discovered ...

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Article: Album Review

Otherways and Free Space: Life Amid the Artefacts

Read "Life Amid the Artefacts" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


The music of Otherways and Free Space unfurls throughout Life Among the Artefacts at a consistently high crest of improvisation during unselfconscious, unguarded moments when the musicians were, quite simply, being extensions of their instruments. They were forces of nature and allowed the music to tumble freely, incorporating songs which had internal combustion mechanisms that were ...

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Article: Album Review

Ariel Shibolet / Nori Jacoby: Scenes From An Ideal Marriage

Read "Scenes From An Ideal Marriage" reviewed by Nic Jones


Having existed for decades, free improvisation can be argued to have settled into a kind of routine regardless of the music's underlying abstraction. The soprano sax has become readily associated with the music thanks to the efforts of such pioneers as Steve Lacy, Evan Parker and Trevor Watts. Ariel Shibolet seems only too aware of this, ...


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