A duo concert by UK pioneers of free jazz Trevor Watts (saxophones) and Veryan Weston (piano). Trevor Watts was a founding member of the seminal English group Spontaneous Music Ensemble that began in 1965 with John Stevens & Paul Rutherford, and subsequently included Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Dave Holland & Kenny Wheeler, amongst others.
Watts has always been a musician interested in incorporating a wide variety and range of playing areas within his style, from purely improvised music to his more jazz oriented smaller groups. Veryan Weston was born in 1950 and moved from Cornwall to London in 1972 where he began playing as a freelance jazz pianist as well as developing as an improviser at Little Theatre Club. Throughout the 1980s and early 90s he worked with Eddie Prévost Quartet, Trevor Watts’ Moiré Music and Lol Coxhill and Phil Minton. Major festivals have included Zurich, Berlin, Nickelsdorf, Karlsruhe, Warsaw, Wroclaw, San Sebastian, Bombay, Vancouver, Nancy, Aukland, Nevers, Washington, Lille, Houston, Le Mans, Strasbourg, Bologna and Victoriaville.
