ETERNAL TRIANGLE - MOVING ON

Eternal Triangle = saxophone player Trevor Watts' ensemble with with Jamie Harris on percussion and Veryan Weston on keyboard.

Their brand-new "Moving On" album got recorded live in concert in Nijmegen in November 2023.

Trevor Watts has been one of the great innovators in British jazz since the 1960s, just like Veryan Weston, a 'leader of the 'London Scene' and a 'forerunner' in jazz and improvisation music. In 1965 he formed the free jazz supergroup Spontaneous Music Ensemble with drummer John Stevens, followed in 1967 by the progressive Amalgam, which connected free jazz with progressive jazz rock until the early 1980s and was part of bassist Barry Guy's renowned London Jazz Composers' Orchestra until the 1990s.

In the early eighties his musical concept changed significantly, with the free approach making way for a mixture of jazz and African rhythm. In large ensembles such as Moiré Music and the Moiré Music Drum Orchestra (with drummers from various African cultures) and later also the Moiré Trio, his improvisations built on structures of overlapping percussion patterns. He performed with his Moire Music groups, which initially also included pianist Veryan Weston, at many major festivals worldwide, from the major jazz festivals in the USA to Glastonbury and Womad. 

Although Watts was initially strongly identified with 'free jazz' and avant-garde, he is in fact a very versatile musician who works in a multitude of styles and contexts, from 'straight jazz' to rock and blues to his hybrids of jazz and African music . For twenty years he has led an improvising duo with pianist Veryan Weston and another duo with percussionist Jamie Harris, mainly based on rhythmic and melodic ideas, with which he has appeared at clubs and festivals worldwide. 

Watts' latest group ETERNAL TRIANGLE with Jamie Harris (percussion) and Veryan Weston (piano/keys) and Trevor Watts (alto and sop sax, compositions) merges both previous duos and focuses on new compositions and the possibilities of trio interaction, where new territory is still being broken. From jazz mixed with complex South American and African rhythms to delicately grooving compositions, interspersed with the energetic, clear improvisation style and the characteristic sound of Watts on alto and soprano sax.