Veryan Weston
Veryan Weston - pianist, composer, arranger and improviser.
Born in Sussex, UK, 3rd September 1950.
He received a fellowship from the Digswell Arts Trust in Hertfordshire that allowed him to continue his work exploring piano improvisation which included his research in to pentatonic scale relationships. While at Digswell, he co-founded and composed for the group Stinky Winkles who were voted 'Young jazz Musicians of 1979' by Greater London Arts Association. He performed music for film, the most notable being his work with Lol Coxhill on director Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986).
Weston's interest in collaborating with artists from other disciplines led him to earn a degree in performance art from Middlesex University and he also earned a master's degree in music composition from Goldsmith's College University in London. In the '80s and '90s, he worked with (among others) the Eddie Prévost Quartet, Lol Coxhill and Trevor Watts.
Trevor’s preoccupation with rhythmic structures and the inclusion of Ghanaian musicians in Moiré Music suited his own interests in the importance and beauty of rhythmic relationships between musicians which is also traceable later in virtually all his work as an improviser. They continue their very fruitful long-term relationship with concerts worldwide that also include other performers. The new Quantum Illusion project involves Veryan Weston on 'keystation' which is a relatively new departure for him in to the world of digital keyboard sound generation. It takes their shared 'Dialogues' project in to new places of exploring improvisation. There is still a jazz feel and sensibility about it, but because of the fact that they are both composers of some note, the improvisations always have a strong sense of structure
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Album Review
- Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs by Alberto Bazzurro
- Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs by John Eyles
- Tuning Out by John Eyles
- Different Tesselations by John Eyles
- Different Tessellations by Raul d'Gama Rose
- Allusions by John Eyles
- Gateway to Vienna by John Eyles
- Tessellations for Lutheal Piano (2003) by Glenn Astarita
- Five Shadows by AAJ Staff
Review by Massimo Ricci of Make: Among several notable intuitions, pianist and composer Veryan Weston has been working for decades on the concept of tessellation