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Watts, Trevor (feat. Moire Music Drum Orchestra / Mark Hewins / Jamie Harris / Gibran Cervantes): A (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Five CDs with unique and joyfully creative aspects of saxophonist and composer Trevor Watts' work, from concerts and studio settings in the UK, US and South Americal in configurations of Trevor Watts Moiré Music Group, with the Enjambre Acustico Urukungolo, Trevor Watts' Moiré Music Drum Orchestra, and duos with Jamie Harris, and with Marc Hewins.
 

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Trevor Watts-leader, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone

Colin McKenzie-bass guitar

Mark Parnell-drums

Paapa Mensah-frican percussion, voice

Roberto Pla-Latin percussion

Gibran Cervantes-Composer, Urukungolo, cow bell, percussion

Jamie Harris-percussion, voice

Mark Parnell-drums

Jojo Yates-African percussion, voice, Mbira

Kofi Adu-African Percussion, voice

Nana Appiah-African percussion, voice

Colin McKenzie-bass guitar

Mark Hewins-electric guitar, harmonic guitar, 12 string guitar, electronics


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UPC: 5905279364844

Label: Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Catalog ID: 26 | 2020
Squidco Product Code: 29802

Format: 5 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2020
Country: Poland
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 5 Panels w/ booklet
CD 1 recorded at The Empty Bottle, in Chicago, Illinois, on September 30th, 2000, by Malachi Ritscher.

CD 2 recorded in Mexico City (1,2,3,5,6 ) and in London (4,7,8).

CD 3 recorded on November 15th, 1996.

CD 4 recorded between 2004 and 2006, by Sam Watts (3,4,5,7,8,10,11,12,13,14) and Trevor Watts (2,6,9).

CD 5 recorded in Margate, United Kingdom, in 2014, by Mark Hewins.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"When I left London after 20 years to live on the South Coast of England, I realized I was leaving the whole music scene that I knew so well. The reason we as a family mainly did that was that we were living on a main road and we had two very young children. Also, houses were cheap here then, as no one wanted to live here that much at that time. So, it meant we could expand our living quarters in a very beautiful place by the sea and improve our lifestyle. This was the year 1981.

That made me get much more into composition than before. I started to write music for a set of people that I knew that would eventually become the first 10-piece ensemble, Moiré Music. The name of the group was coined by my partner, Margaret, who suggested that the name seemed to fit the music I had written. She knew the paintings of, say, Brigid Riley, which visually represent that name.

I understood the word "Moiré" in simple terms. It meant that two or more patterns can make a third and so on, so that is in the ear, in this case, or the eye of the beholder. What you see/hear is what you see and hear. I based the writing on interlocking patterns, and lots of them. The music has often been called minimalistic. But that was never in my mind. Rhythm has always been very important, and rhythm by its nature is Moiré in a way, and can be called minimalistic. So the influences for me were more from traditional African music, right back to the roots. So then, you can invent what you want based on those roots, rather than using something else that was already derivative as the basis. In 1982 I was given a spot with Moiré Music at the Bracknell Jazz Festival and at the Roundhouse sessions in London, and both were fantastically well received. Also in 1982, I launched what I now call Trevor Watts Original Drum Orchestra, and that first version, more or less, you can hear on the CD's "Drum Energy" or "Burundi Monday." I used Moiré Music at that point mainly for the writing and compositional side, and Original Drum Orchestra for improvisation, using a combination of an African musician, a folk musician and rock musician, and myself who started out as a jazz musician. None of this was influenced by jazz rock or anything like that; it was an attempt and belief that anyone could make interesting music together if the desire, and of course skill, was there to do it. That was the principle.

As I said before, in the 1980's I wanted to have a group that purely improvised, and then a group that was a vehicle for my compositional side. Of course, improvisation by way of solos still played a big part. Everything has a natural life, but also juxtaposed with my feeling that Moiré Music had more or less come to an end in 1990. It was then I decided to finish with the Moiré Music project and put everything into what I called Moiré Music Drum Orchestra. We also started to play compositions at that period too. Not only by myself, but by other members of the group. Colin McKenzie used to come to my home a lot during this period, and through his bass guitar playing, helped shape how the music would become, as well as some compositions from the African musicians. By the time we played the music on this set of recordings, the group was drastically changing in personnel and was heading toward the end of its life.

All the recordings we can listen to in a 5-disc box set are equally close to me. They all offer different interests within my musical career that I have been involved with, and by no means are these all of them. If we take them one by one, the closest to each other musically speaking are the two Moiré groups. This represents my involvement with African musicians, which lasted around 15 years, touring all over the world on many occasions and great collaborations with, for instance, the "Teatro Negro De Barlovento," a group from the Caribbean region of Venezuela, or workshops at the Film Institute of India in Mumbai. My passport to the world.

An especially remarkable achievement was a concert of Moiré Music Drum Orchestra posted on Disc 3 (and the first track on Disc 4). This performance was extraordinary in many ways as we headed on a 10-hour drive from Hamburg down to Lugano in the Italian part of Switzerland. It was the even more remarkable cartoonist friend of mine, Martin Honeysett (of Private Eye magazine, etc.), who drove all the way, almost nonstop. Martin loved driving and he loved the band and he was a very good driver indeed. In more "hippie" times he drove the Magic Bus, I think it was called, to Turkey and other places from the U.K., so he was a seasoned driver. He got us there by the designated time of 18.00 hours, when the producer and others were waiting with, I'm guessing, slightly frayed nerves. They helped us in with our gear. It was a live audience, you see, and so we did a quick sound check, took off our coats etc., and proceeded to play this concert. Such is life in the fast lane. The audience's appreciation was felt all the way through. Magic moments. Martin's cartoon of the band can be seen somewhere else in this boxed set as a sample of his work. I also dedicate this concert to him and I know everyone would have agreed.

The collaboration with Gibran Cervantes in Mexico came about because when he was about to make his first recording, someone in Mexico had heard me play with the Moiré Music Drum Orchestra and had said that I was the one who could do the job. Gibran started out with about 10 musicians, and by the end the recording just featured himself, Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista and myself. Gibran and I became very close and I started to go over to Mexico very often for concerts around the country. I then introduced Gibran to Jamie Harris and we played as a trio. So you can see how the Moiré thing was connected, in life terms, to the Urukungolo trio.

Then there's the duo work with Jamie Harris. When I met Jamie he came to a workshop of mine. He sang and played guitar, but only did vocals at the workshop. I said I didn't really have anything for vocals, but gave him a Tarabuka drum and showed him a rhythm, which he immediately picked up and played. So I said to him that he was a drummer. He really did have that very natural drumming thing with his hands and energy, and we used to get together three times a week as he lives here in the same town, and for quite a few years we played as a duo and developed the music. It all lasted around 2000 to 2005. It can safely be said that I mentored Jamie during this period. I even got a Tarabuka myself and played the hand drum regularly to show how the rhythms worked with the melodies. I was always tapping anyway, all through my life, and still do. So we went out a lot and played our hard won music, sometimes with the two drums, some of the rhythms we had worked on and then the sax. You can hear at least one of the tunes featuring us both. It was great that eventually we could play two nights in Sao Paulo at the Jazz Festival to a full audience on both nights. The second night they were joining in with some of the vocals. The evidence is on the "Live in Sao Paulo, Brasil" CD.Just over a year ago, in 2019, Jamie suggested we get together again after he'd initially been asked to play with me by my other major duo partner of over 40 years, Veryan Weston, who very kindly and generously organized my 80th Jubilee celebration gig in London. And so we have been rehearsing, this time, once a week when we can, and no drumming from me. We are building our musical pad up again and beginning to play more concerts. Jamie lives near me, so that makes life easy in terms of developing something I think is worthwhile. It's not about gigs for me, it's about the music! Don't get me wrong -- I love doing gigs.

The final CD in this set is with Mark Hewins. Well, Mark Hewins replaced Keith Rowe for a very short while in Amalgam in 1980. I thought he was the only player I knew at that time that could do so. Mark used to go and play with Keith at his house in London as they both lived in Streatham at the time. But by the time I reconnected with Mark he was living on the South Coast and I used to get a train and we'd do some playing and recording. And these are the results of our collaboration. Mark and the way he plays gave me a very different palate to play with. It gave me the freedom to play in a more conventional way and experimental way, and at the same time, whichever way the muse takes us, and whatever came to mind. For me it's always a collective thing, and so I will respond to any perceived changes or change of direction, however slight. I am not that type of player that ignores. I cannot help responding in whatever way seems appropriate to me at the time. Mark is a generous spirit, and that is a strong part of the glue.You can see by reading this how everything for me is done in as "natural" a way as possible. Like the music itself, it doesn't always best serve me because I know promoters need to have a good idea of what they are getting. I am OK with that, as my prime concern is the development of the music in whatever way it comes up and also with others. It's called commitment."-Trevor Watts, May 2020


Artist Biographies

"Trevor Charles Watts (born 26 February 1939 in York) is an English jazz and free-improvising alto and soprano saxophonist. He is largely self-taught, having taken up the cornet at age 12 then switched to saxophone at 18. While stationed in Germany with the RAF (1958-63), he encountered the drummer John Stevens and trombonist Paul Rutherford. After being demobbed he returned to London. In 1965 he and Stevens formed the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, which became one of the crucibles of British free improvisation. Watts left the band to form his own group Amalgam in 1967, then returned to SME for another stretch that lasted until the mid-1970s. Another key association was with the bassist Barry Guy and his London Jazz Composers' Orchestra, an association that lasted from the band's inception in the 1970s up to its (permanent?) disbandment in the mid-1990s.

Though he was initially strongly identified with the avant-garde, Watts is a versatile musician who has worked in everything from straight jazz contexts to rock and blues. His own projects have come increasingly to focus on blending jazz and African music, notably the Moiré Music ensemble which he has led since 1982 in configurations ranging from large ensembles featuring multiple drummers to more intimate trios. He has only occasionally recorded in freer modes in recent years, notably the CD 6 Dialogues, a duet album with Veryan Weston (the pianist in earlier editions of Moiré Music). A solo album, World Sonic, appeared on Hi4Head Records in 2005.

Watts has toured the world over numerous times, run workshops, received grants and commissions, and he has collaborated with some of the great jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry and Jayne Cortez. As of 2011, he continues to travel and toured North American with Veryan Weston."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Watts)
3/13/2024

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Colin McKenzie is a bass guitarist from Dunfermline, Scotland, known for the groups Amalgam, Ranson, McKenzie & Friends, Trevor Watts Moiré Music Drum Orchestra, Trevor Watts Moiré Music Trio, Trevor Watts String Ensemble, Trevor Watts' Moiré Music.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/946589-Colin-McKenzie)
3/13/2024

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"United kingdom percussionist Jamie Harris, who loves to bang in fairly portable products including congas, djembe, and darbouka, is most beneficial known for performing within a duo setting using the great saxophonist Trevor W. Appearing out of a history of free of charge improvisation where his early companions were radical vendors of noise such as for example fellow saxophonist Evan Parker and guitarist Derek Bailey, W amazed many listeners by changing the frame-up of his improvising configurations in order that his accompaniment will be created generally by percussionists, especially people that have Afro-jazz leanings. W and Harris started their relationship - known basically as the Duo - during 1999. Viewers all over have noticed this combination, regarded by many enthusiastic listeners to become the best distillation of W' fascination with rhythmically billed sax and percussion improvisation. Harris provides traveled along with his old coach to gigs in the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Peru, New Zealand, and Australia, not forgetting america, Canada, and European countries. This isn't the same Jamie Harris who has saxophone in Florida rings Mr. Eliminated and Afro Components."

-MusicianBio (https://musicianbio.org/jamie-harris-2/)
3/13/2024

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Colin McKenzie is a bass guitarist from Dunfermline, Scotland, known for the groups Amalgam, Ranson, McKenzie & Friends, Trevor Watts Moiré Music Drum Orchestra, Trevor Watts Moiré Music Trio, Trevor Watts String Ensemble, Trevor Watts' Moiré Music.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/946589-Colin-McKenzie)
3/13/2024

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"Mark Hewins (born 24 March 1955) is a British jazz guitarist known for his connections to the Canterbury scene, a group of English progressive rock musicians during the 1960s.

Hewins' professional career as a guitarist began in 1973 with the London band Mother Sun with Steve Tozer and lead singer Dave Bell. Early work included on the Dance Orchestra's A Luta Continua (alongside Phil Collins, John Martyn, and Danny Thompson).

Hewins has worked extensively with various Canterbury scene musicians, including multiple projects with Elton Dean. He played on Dave Sinclair's Moon Over Man album and with him in The Polite Force (1976-8, Canterbury Knights album). He was in Going Going (1990) and Caravan of Dreams (1991) with Richard Sinclair. Hewins played in later incarnations of Soft Heap (with Dean, Pip Pyle and John Greaves) and can be heard on A Veritable Centaur. He was a member of Gong in 1999. Hewins has also worked extensively with Hugh Hopper, including in Dark Horse and Mashu (1995-8). Hewins also worked with Mashu percussionist Shyamal Maïtra on other projects, including a duo and a trio with Carol Grimes.

He has collaborated with Dennis Gonzalez and Andrew Cyrille in the U.S. and in Europe with Django Bates in Research. Hewins' first solo album was The Electric Guitar (1987). He was Lou Reed's guitar tech on several tours.

He leads his big band FF, his dance band Tritonik (with Tania Evans, who went on to Culture Beat), and the Music Doctors (with Dean and Lol Coxhill). He has played with Julie Felix, Bill Bruford, Fred Frith, Joe Lee Wilson, Dudu Pukwana, John Stevens, Mervyn Africa, and Anthony Aiello. He has also written music for film and television commercials."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hewins)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



CD 1
Trevor Watts Moiré Music Group - The Empty Bottle - Chicago, USA Sep 30th 2000

Trevor Watts - Leader, alto & soprano saxes
Colin McKenzie - Bass Guitar
Mark Parnell - Drums
Paapa Mensah - African Perc, Voice
Roberto Pla - Latin Perc.

1) Yatra Groove 10.02
2) Indian Hills 7.29
3) Meditation in Blue 7.56
4) Talking in Rhythms 8.23
5) Tribute to Don Cherry 9.57
6) Seamless 12.57
7) New Jungle 7.08
8) Gentle Love 7.27

Recorded by Malachi Ritscher / Savage Sound Syndicate, Chicago


CD 2:
Enjambre Acustico Urukungolo
Gibran Cervantes - Composer, Urukungolo, Cow Bell, Perc
Jamie Harris - Perc
Trevor Watts - Alto & Soprano Saxes

1) Alatopa Intro (Cervantes: arr Watts/Cervantes) - (15.07)
2) Alatopa Take 2 (Cervantes) - (7.06)
3) Earth (Watts) - (11.08)
4) In Five (Watts/Cervantes)-(7.19)
5) Alatopa Take 3 (Cervantes) - (5.35)
6) Uruk Deos (Cervantes)-(10.13)
7) Wizards (Cervantes) - (6.28)
8) End Line (Watts/Cervantes) - (6.07)

Recorded in Mexico City (1,2,3,5,6 ) and in London (4,7,8)

CD 3:

Trevor Watts' Moiré Music Drum Orchestra - Radio Lugano Broadcast 15.11.1996

Trevor Watts - Leader/Alto & Sop saxes
Mark Parnell - Drums
Jojo Yates - African Perc / Voice / Mbira
Kofi Adu - African Perc / Voice
Nana Appiah - African Perc / Voice
Colin McKenzie - Bass Gtr

01 Yatra Groove (Watts) (7.36)
02. Mimuna (Jojo Yates) (10.34)
03. Sobesi (Trad: arr Moire) (7.54)
04. End of the Rd (Watts) (8.19)
05. Opening Gambit (Watts) (8.28)
06. Ladbroke Groove (Moire Music) (9.24)
07. Gentle Love (Watts) (6.43)
08. Tribute to Don Cherry (Watts) (8.26)
09. Latino Shuffle (Watts) (5.20)


CD4:
Trevor Watts & Jamie Harris
Trevor Watts - Saxes & Perc
Jamie Harris - Perc & Voice

1) Otublohu (Nee Daku Patato) Encore from Radio Lugano Broadcast 15.11.1996 - (11.36)
2) Alpino - 3.10)
3) Ghetto Life Was Here (Memory of Krakow) - 6.55
4) Sarawak - 3.34
5) Balintan - 2.39
6) Maribor Memories - 3.11
7) Anna B - 5.25
8) Coayacan - 2.54
9) Jamie's For Us - 9.09
10) Sam Star - 3.07
11) Three and More - 3.35
12) Balladinine - 3.03
13) Kerrytown - 2.32
14) Tandem Voices - 3.46

Recorded between 2004 & 2006 Jamie's for us 2019 by Sam Watts (3,4,5,7,8,10,11,12,13,14) and Trevor Watts (2,6,9)

CD5: Marc Hewins & Trevor Watts

Mark Hewins - E Guitar, Harmonic Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Electronics
Trevor Watts - Alto & Soprano saxes

1) Dark Matter - 16.12
2) Blue Grey - 12.29
3) Whisps - 11.52
4) Night Variations - 10.40

Recorded by Mark Hewins in Margate. UK. in 2014

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NY tenor saxophonist Sabir Mateen joins the German trio of Christopher Dell on vibes, Christian Ramond on double bass, and Klaus Kugel on drums, all memebers of the Theo Jorgensmann Quartet, for a live recording at A-Trane, in Berlin in 2012, finding all three energetically enthusiastic and often driven by Mateen's unique personality in performance.
Alcorn, Susan Quintet
Pedernal
(Relative Pitch)
An innovator in integrating pedal steel guitar into modern improvised music, Cleveland-born, Baltimore-based pedal steel guitar player Susan Alcorn's quintet enlists a superb set of New York players--Mark Feldman on violin, Michael Formanek on double bass, Mary Halvorson on guitar, and Ryan Sawyer on drums--taking on a diverse set of Alcorn compositions.



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