TREVOR WATTS - ETERNAL TRIANGLE - JAZZ LIVE! @ the PUZZLE
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 08:30 pm
Location
Puzzle Hall Community Pub | Halifax, EN
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Jazz Live! @ the Puzzle ETERNAL TRIANGLE
Trevor Watts - Saxophones/ Composer
Veryan Weston - Nord Electric Keyboard
Jamie Harris - Percussion
Contemporary jazz & world music. A project led and inspired by Trevor Watts who has just turned 85.
These compositions are founded on wonderfully complex and diverse rhythmic structures from Africa and
South America as well as harmonies and melodies rooted in jazz and European music forms.
CD release “Gravity” on Jazz Britains “Jazz Now” label in March 2024
https://on.soundcloud.com/EiYwR4exS3aKWxzEA
https://on.soundcloud.com/i1GqMuBC6C8zUzLXA
Trevor has been on the scene since the early 60's and has been at the forefront of Jazz & Improv music in all this time.
As a founder member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in 1965, Amalgam in 1967, London Jazz Composers Orchestra around 1973, Splinters with Phil Seaman, Tubby Hayes, Stan Tracey. Jeff Clyne and John Stevens and so on.
Since those days he has played many festivals with his Moire Music groups, which also included the
Moire Music Drum Orchestra.
Some of these for instance were the San Francisco Jazz Fest /Vancouver Jazz Fest/Seattle Jazz Fest/ Berlin Jazz Fest/
London Jazz Fest/ Singapore Arts Fest/Washington DC World Music Fest/ Glastonbury Fest/Womad Fest and so on.................
Watts has also performed with, and amongst many others Archie Shepp/Steve Lacy/ Denardo Coleman with Jayne Cortez/
Steve Swallow/ Irene Schweizer/ Don Cherry/ Bobby Bradford/
Dave Holland/ Rashied Ali/ Peter Kowald/ Adama Drame (Burkina Faso)/ Cyro Baptista and so on.
He was instrumental in initiating the collaboration between his Drum Orchestra and Teatro Negro Barlovento
(Venezuela) 35 piece group which played the Saalfelden and Crawley Jazz Festivals as well as concerts in
S America and a BBC radio broadcast.
Trevor has had a long standing improvising duo with pianist Veryan Weston and another very different duo with
Percussionist Jamie Harris, based on rhythmic & melodic ideas in the main. They were wildly appreciated at the
Sao Paolo Jazz Festival in Brasil some years ago and also in the Dominican Republic.
This sample of Watts' newest venture called ETERNAL TRIANGLE which features Jamie Harris (Percussion)/ Veryan Weston (Kybd) and Trevor Watts (alto & sop saxes, compositions) and is made up from those two duos, you can hear at the above link. All the compositions are different, and we have never failed to gain an
audience's excited interest whenever we play a concert.”
For those who may be unsure of the public transport situations, here are some useful details...
Trains:
If you’re travelling towards Halifax / Bradford / Leeds, the last train leaves Sowerby Bridge at 00.05.
If you’re travelling up the Calder Valley, and onwards to Manchester, the last train leaves Sowerby Bridge at 23.23.
Please allow 15 minutes to walk from the pub to the station, and please check, on the day of travel,
that the times have not changed, or that strike actions are being planned.
Bus:
There’s a 579 bus to Halifax that leaves Station Road at 23.48, just a few minutes’ walk from the Pub,
however, give yourself plenty of time, as it’s the last bus, it can be pretty sharp in setting off.
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Where is it happening?
Puzzle Hall Community Pub, 21 Hollins Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2, United Kingdom,Halifax, West YorkshireEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
