Grant Calvin Weston
Grant Calvin Weston is a drummer best known for his association with Ornette Coleman's band Prime Time.
Career
Weston was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and began playing music as a youth. At age 17, he joined Ornette Coleman's band Prime Time, and recorded three albums with them. He then went on to perform and record with guitarist James Blood Ulmer as well as with John Lurie and The Lounge Lizards. He has also released two dozen albums as leader or co-leader, and is currently a member of the Free Form Funky Freqs, a trio with guitarist Vernon Reid and bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Wail, a band with members of Stinking Lizaveta.Discography
As leader or co-leader
- Dance Romance with James Blood Ulmer and Jamaaladeen Tacuma
- Percussion Duets with Billy Martin
- Mirakle with Derek Bailey and Jamaaladeen Tacuma
- When We Were Young
- For No One in Particular with Billy Martin and DJ Logic
- Live At Houston Hall November 17, 2002 with Billy Martin
- Nassira
- My Gypsy Lover
- Of Alien Feelings
- Play Out Loud
- Blues and Daily News with Ross Hammond
- Magic Hands with Henryk Gembalski and Krzysztof Majchrzak
- Metamorphosis with Waldemar Knade
- Flying Kites with Lucas Brode
- No Zone
- Terra Lingua Sketches with Mika Pontecorvo, Cartoon Justice
- Spiritual Branches, Sleepless Burial
- Improv Messenger
- Face Off with Kazutoki Umezu
- Dust and Ash with the Phoenix Orchestra
- Root with Ross Hammond
- Hydrogen 77 with Richard Hill and Colton Weatherston
- Bless with Ross Hammond
- Stone Church with Jim Kost
- Imagination/Meditation with Lucas Brode
;With Free Form Funky Frēqs
- Urban Mythology Volume One
- Bon Vivant
- Hymn of the 3rd Galaxy
- ''Mouse Paradise''
As sideman
;With The Lounge Lizards
- Live in Berlin 1991 Vol. 1
- Queen of All Ears
- Men with Sticks
- Big Trouble / She's Not A Nurse
- Excess Baggage
- Fishing With John
- The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits
- African Swim and Manny & Lo
- The Invention of Animals
;With Marc Ribot
;With James Blood Ulmer
- Are You Glad to Be in America?
- Free Lancing
- Black Rock
- Blues Allnight
- Black and Blues
- Forbidden Blues
- Black Rock Reunion
- Freelancing Live
- Various artists, Lounge-A-Palooza,
- Tricky, Angels With Dirty Faces
- Eszter Balint, Flicker
- James Carter, Layin' [in the Cut |Layin' in the Cut]
- Michael Blake, Hellbent
- Axiomatic, The Birds of My Senses : Live at the Stone
- John Zorn, Bagatelles
- Amanda Chaudhary, Meow Meow Band, ''Merp Friend''