Performers

Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston (UK)

Though saxophonist Trevor Watts is one of the founding fathers of British free improvisation, for decades he has focused primarily on his own provocative hybrid of jazz, popular music, and African traditional music, Moiré Music, among other composition-based projects.  With 6 Dialogues (Emanem), his 2001 record of improvised duets with long-time collaborator, the superb pianist Veryan Weston, Watts announced a return to a mode of music-making that he helped to forge in the 1960s with luminary colleagues like Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, and John Stevens.  Watts has a knack for imbuing abstract improvisation with a tough lyricism that is aptly complemented by Weston's classically inspired, clean lines and rhythmic rigour.  Simply put, these two are utterly world-class improvising musicians.