Trio Verso is a collaboration whose work interprets and refocuses the 1950s poetry and jazz movement for a 21st century audience, through the fusing of evocative lyric texts with free improvised jazz grooves and jazz-inflected soundscapes. The CD Storm Chaser was released in 2010.
Performances are centred on close interaction, the poet exploring different interpretations of his texts in reaction to the sounds and rhythms created, while the musicians exploit their technique and the potential of their various instruments in response to the readings.
Since forming in 2007, Trio Verso has performed at the Big Tent Festival in Falkland, for St Andrews University Music Centre, at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, at the Wordfringe Festival in Aberdeenshire, at the Callander Poetry Weekend and for the poetry sessions, Last Monday at the Rio in Glasgow and Shore Poets and the Golden Hour, both in Edinburgh.
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