Trevor Watts

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Sole surviving founder member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (1965) which included John Stevens & Paul Rutherford.
This group subsequently involved Evan Parker/Derek Bailey/Dave Holland & Kenny Wheeler amongst others. This innovative group of musicians helped to develop a new musical language that is now used all around the World in improvised music and beyond.
His own groups included Amalgam/String Ensemble/Moire Music/Moire Music Drum Orchestra/Celebration Band.
Collaborations include with Teatro Negro de Barlovento (Venezuela)/ Gibran Cervantes (Mexico) & Cyro Baptista (Brasil)/Ansuman Biswas (India). Adama Drame (Burkina Faso).
Other musicians Trevor has played with include Archie Shepp/Don Cherry/Steve Swallow/Bobby Bradford/Steve Lacy/Louis Moholo/Stan Tracey.​
 
Festivals include: San Francisco Jazz Festival/Monterey Jazz Festival/July 4th Freedom Plaza DC Festival/Guelph Jazz Festival/Vancouver Jazz Festival/Ottawa Jazz Festival/Penang Jazz Festival/Singapore Festival 0f Arts/Glastonbury Festival/Womad Festival/London Jazz Festival/Berlin Jazz Festival/Beijing and Shanghai Jazz Festivals/Darling Harbour Jazz Festival (Sydney)/Wangarratta Jazz Festival/N Zealand Festival of the Arts./Sarawak Festival/Warsaw festival /Seattle Jazz Festival and many more.

Watts has always been a musician interested in incorporating a wide variety of influences within his style of playing,, from purely improvised music, as in the current duos with Veryan Weston or Stephen Grew & new Trio with Brasilian percussionist Cyro Baptista.  Then recently he was  commissioned to compose a piece of choral music for the Light Vessel communities around the UK coastal areas. His Afro-European Moire Music Drum Orchestra had 5 Ghanaian musicians at the core. The Celebration Band and Moire Music Groups that he composed and arranged all the music for. And in the past his more Jazz orientated smaller groups, one of which was the Bobby Bradford Quartet. All these experiences he draws upon within whatever music he is part of now.
 

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