trevor watts/amalgam

[Guest akanalog]

i was in other music yesterday and they had a few trevor watts CDs. mostly with the group amalgam, which i guess he led. many of the CDs looked interesting and had interesting players. but i am curious what the music sounded like. is it free-ish jazz or is it somewhat rock informed jazz or what? i have not been able to find much useful information online. thank you very much.

[A Lark Ascending]

Have a look here:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/mwatts.html

Very freeish as I remember. From the same stable as the SME.

[SEK]

Amalgam's "Innovation" grooves in a real cool way, often with a strong pulse, congas, and in-and-out piano and sax wailing. One of my long-time favorites. Is it on CD now?

"Prayer for Peace" is deeply beautiful and moving.

[Guest akanalog]

innovation is pretty cool. picked it up today. it does have an interesting groove and keith tippett does not take the music into any too-abstract for me territory.

prayer for peace looks good but i don't usually like sax trios.

i might check out another time next. or there was another one that looked interesting i can't remember right now. how are these?

also some some john stevens stuff. perhaps his work is worth a listen. his compositions on innovation are nice.

[SEK]

akanalog, did you get "Innovation" on LP or CD? I got it when it was available only on vinyl and transferred it to CDR when I got too lazy and klutzy (more the latter than the former, actually).

[Guest akanalog]

it is on CD. downtown music gallery had a bunch of amalgam CDs actually...