Trevor Watts

Trevor Charles Watts ( born February 26, 1939 in York, United Kingdom ) is a British jazz musician ( woodwinds, composition).

Life and work

Watts is the cornet in a jazz loving family grew up, brought from 12 at first. At 18, he turned to the saxophone. Between 1958 and 1963 he completed his military service in Germany and played in a chapel of the Royal Air Force ( among others with Paul Rutherford and John Stevens). After his release he went to London and joined the New Jazz Orchestra, but also played with blues-rock musicians such as Rod Stewart and Sonny Boy Williamson II In 1965 he founded with John Stevens, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, which is a major catalyst for the development of free should play in the UK (and in which he participated until 1974 ). In addition, in 1967 he founded the band amalgam that is increasingly explored the territory between free improvisation and rock - oriented rhythms ( inter alia with Keith and Julie Tippett, Colin Mackenzie and Liam Genockey ). Since its founding in 1972, he was a member of the London Jazz Composers ' Orchestra, which has been increasingly organized by Barry Guy. In addition, he worked with Bobby Bradford ( 1973), Stan Tracey (1973 /74) and Katrina Krimsky. In 1976 he founded the Trevor Watts String Ensemble, 1978, the Universal Music Group. In 1982, his musical approach changed radically; the improvisations built in his large-scale Moire Music Drum Orchestra and the moiré ( with somewhat different from 5 drummers, primarily African cultures ) or the moiré Trio on the structures of overlapping drum patterns on. In addition, Watts also played in the bands of musicians such as Louis Moholo, Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Jayne Cortez, Harry Miller and Tippett.

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