Veryan Weston (born 1950) is a British pianist active in
free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved. The term can refer to both a technique (employed by any musician in any genre) and as a recognizable genre in its ...
, jazz, and rock music. He has worked with
Lol Coxhill
George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) known professionally as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvising saxophonist. He played soprano and sopranino saxophone.
Biography
Coxhill was born to George Compton Coxhill ...
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Eddie Prévost
Edwin John Prévost (born 22 June 1942) is an English percussionist who founded the free improvisation group, AMM.
Early years
Of Huguenot heritage, Prévost's silk weaving ancestors moved to Spitalfields in the late 17th century. He was bor ...
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Trevor Watts
Trevor Charles Watts (born 26 February 1939) is an English jazz and free-improvising alto and soprano saxophonist.
Biography
Watts was born in York, England. He is largely self-taught, having taken up the cornet at age 12 then switched to s ...
,
Caroline Kraabel and
Phil Minton
Phil Minton (born 2 November 1940) is a British avant-garde jazz/ free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.
Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's ...
.
Weston was born in 1950 and lived in
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
before moving to London in 1972.
Discography
* ''Underwater Carol'' (Matchless, 1987)
* ''Playing Alone'' (Acta, 1997)
* ''Mercury Concert'' (Emanem, 1999)
* ''Unearthed'' (33 Records, 1999)
* ''Five Shadows'' (Emanem, 2001)
* ''Tessellations for Lutheal Piano'' (Emanem, 2003)
* ''Gateway to Vienna'' (Emanem, 2005)
* ''Unlocked'' (Emanem, 2007)
* ''Allusions'' (Emanem, 2009)
* ''Different Tessellations'' (Emanem, 2011)
* ''Haste'' (Emanem, 2012)
* ''Dialogues for Ornette!'' (FMR, 2015)
* ''Tuning Out'' (Emanem, 2015)
* ''Discoveries On Tracker Action Organs'' (Emanem, 2016)
* ''The Make Project'' (Barnyard, 2018)
* ''Crossings'' (Hi 4Head, 2020)
As sideman
With
Lol Coxhill
George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) known professionally as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvising saxophonist. He played soprano and sopranino saxophone.
Biography
Coxhill was born to George Compton Coxhill ...
* ''The Joy of Paranoia'' (Ogun, 1978)
* ''Digswell Duets'' (Random Radar, 1979)
* ''Cou$cou$'' (Nato, 1984)
* ''The Inimitable'' (Chabada, 1985)
* ''Frog Dance'' (Impetus, 1986)
* ''Boundless'' (Emanem, 1998)
* ''Coxhill On Ogun'' (Ogun, 1998)
* ''Spectral Soprano'' (Emanem, 2002)
* ''Worms Organising Archdukes'' (Emanem, 2002)
* ''Out to Launch'' (Emanem, 2003)
With
Phil Minton
Phil Minton (born 2 November 1940) is a British avant-garde jazz/ free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.
Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's ...
* ''Ways'' (ITM, 1987)
* ''Ways Past'' (ITM, 1992)
* ''Songs from a Prison Diary'' (Leo, 1993)
* ''Mouthfull of Ecstasy'' (Victo, 1996)
* ''Ways Out East, Ways Out West'' (Intakt, 2005)
* ''Slur'' (Emanem, 2007)
With
Trevor Watts
Trevor Charles Watts (born 26 February 1939) is an English jazz and free-improvising alto and soprano saxophonist.
Biography
Watts was born in York, England. He is largely self-taught, having taken up the cornet at age 12 then switched to s ...
* ''Trevor Watts' Moire Music'' (Arc, 1985)
* ''Saalfelden Encore'' (Cadillac, 1987)
* ''With One Voice'' (Arc, 1988)
* ''6 Dialogues'' (Emanem, 2002)
* ''5 More Dialogues'' (Emanem, 2011)
* ''Dialogues in Two Places'' (Hi 4 Head, 2012)
* ''At Ad Libitum'' (for Tune, 2015)
* ''Dialogues with Strings'' (Fundacja Suchaj, 2017)
* ''The Real Intention'' (Fundacja Suchaj, 2020)
With others
*
Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford (born 6 March 1950) is a British musician who graduated from the University of York He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, electronics, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, suc ...
, ''3 Pianos'' (Emanem, 2001)
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Caroline Kraabel, ''Playtime'' (Mass Producers, 2009)
* Caroline Kraabel, ''Last1 and Last2'' (Emanem, 2019)
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Eddie Prevost
Eddie or Eddy may refer to:
Science and technology
*Eddy (fluid dynamics), the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid flows past an obstacle
*Eddie (text editor), a text editor originally for BeOS and now ported to Linu ...
, ''Continuum'' (Matchless, 1985)
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Jon Rose
Jonathan Anthony Rose (born 19 February 1951) is an Australian violinist, cellist, composer, and multimedia artist. Rose's work is centered in the experimental music known as free improvisation, where he has created large environmental multimed ...
, ''Temperament'' (Emanem, 2002)
* Jon Rose, ''Tunings & Tunes'' (HEyeRMEarS/Discorbie 2010)
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Paul Rutherford, ''In Backward Times'' (Emanem, 2017)
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Ian Smith
Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to ...
, ''Daybreak'' (Emanem, 2001)
References
External links
Official site
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1950 births
Living people
Musicians from London
Avant-garde jazz musicians
British experimental musicians