Eddie Prévost, Veryan Weston

Concert, v. is a studio duo of Eddie Prévost on drums and Veryan Weston on piano, two players with long roots in British free jazz. Here they strip their exchanges down to texture, space and short bursts of energy. The title, Prévost explains in the sleeve, refers to the verb sense of the word, and the record was issued alongside the reissue of the Eddie Prévost Quartet's Continuum, in which both men had played.

The twelve pieces, in two parts, were recorded at Gateway Studios in Kingston, Part 1 on 5 June and Part 2 on 29 June 1998. Steve Lowe engineered and the mix is by Evan Parker. In his sleeve note Steve Lake hears Beauty as an Ear Thing as a study in texture, full of soft explosions and the ring of spinning metal. Its overtones, in his words, "glow like embers", and he thinks the piece would not be out of place on an AMM disc. Clustered has a dislocated rhythmic feel that he likens to an abstraction of Monk and Max Roach, and Hammer and Tonic leaves the gate roaring. Reviewing it in the Musings collection, Richard Cochrane described Weston as a whirling pianist who favours the upper octaves. He found the music full of gaps, with pieces such as Symphony of Surfaces rising to a spiralling complexity that still seems to sit on top of silence. He heard it as more severe and concentrated than the knockabout quartet record.

Released by Matchless Recordings as MRCD 37, a single CD with Undulation by Berrenice Benjellon on the cover.