Improv Messenger, by G. Calvin Weston on 577 Records

Improv Messenger

by G. Calvin Weston on 577 Records

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This is Grant Calvin Weston’s second recording on 577 Records, joining his previous release, Flying Kites (with guitarist Lucas Brode) from 2015.

Grant Calvin Weston has blazed a harmolodic, funkadelic trail through modern jazz. This record is a culmination of recordings made on the West Coast and his hometown of Philadelphia. Weston puts his Midas touch on electronics and acoustic instruments that blow the socks off any jazz-rock poser out there. Listen to the man who funked-up Ornette Coleman's Prime Time Band in the 1980s.

“Weston lays down a ferocious groove with ecstatic shouts … tugging rhythmic displacements that tease like thunder and lightning throughout.” — All About Jazz

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released October 25, 2016

G. Calvin Weston: Drums, Trumpet, Guitar, Bass, Moog Bass, Keyboards

Recorded in North Philly
Release: October 2016
Total CD time - 75:00
Catalogue number 5796

Graphic Design: Sergio Vezzali

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G. Calvin Weston on 577 Records Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Listen to the man who funked-up Ornette Coleman's Prime Time Band in the 1980s and worked with legends such as James Blood Ulmer, Tricky, John Lurie and The Lounge Lizards, James Carter, and Marc Ribot.

“Adventure has been coursing through the blood of Weston, a drummer of relentless invention, ever since his sojourn with Ornette Coleman when Weston was still a teenager.” - New Yorker ... more

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