His first name looks like Fritz with a missing "r" and sounds like what pianists have when they sit down at an out-of-tune instrument. Weston was a Southerner who literally wandered the land in the early Roaring Twenties playing piano for carnivals. His age would have been just a bit less since his birth is guessed at 1904. He wound up on the West Coast, not quite nailed down into Reb Spikes' band since he wound up rushing back to the rhythm section of a previous employer, drummer Speed Webb.

By the '30s, the pianist was on the opposite coast, associated with the jazz scene around Newark and gigging with several bandleaders, including the influential Sam Wooding. Weston began nibbling on the style that would become RB, backing up singer and saxophonist Louis Jordan. The pianist then went on to accompany singer Amanda Randolph through 1938. He also led his own trio and gigged as a soloist. During the late '40s Weston was in the band of Earl Bostic, another saxophonist with strong similarities to Jordan. The USO made regular use of Weston in the '50s. Most of the pianist's discography stems from recording sessions with New Orleans jazz bandleaders Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi