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Chris Oatts

Chris Oatts is a saxophonist and composer from Des Moines, Iowa, who now resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He first began playing music at the age of ten when he received a saxophone from his father as a gift. Chris has since moved to Philadelphia to pursue a degree in music from Temple University and he has brought his passion for music along with him. Chris is a versatile musician who has studied and performed with world-renowned musicians such as Dick Oatts, Terell Stafford, Tim Warfield and Walt Weiskopf. He has performed extensively around the United States and in Europe at venues such as Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola in New York City and Bimhuis in Amsterdam

Keep Swingin'

By Garry Dial

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Keep Swingin’; Great Awakening; Bat Cave; Pine Needles; Mummy’s Curse; Bernie Burnola; A- 440; Nero; Pluto Language; Pelaghia.

Introducing Saxophonist Olivia Hughart

by Sanford Josephson
March 1, 2024

This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Growing up in Lower Merion, PA, a jny: Philadelphia suburb, Olivia Hughart started playing jazz saxophone in middle school. “My parents were big music lovers," she recalled. “We were listening to music all the time. They're huge Yellowjackets fans, so we'd always listen to Bob Mintzer ...

Personalities

By Chris Oatts

Label: BCM&D Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: (all compositions by Chris Oatts, except where noted all arrangements by Chris Oatts) Alley Birds; Dragon Night; Building Blocks; Shade of Jade (Joe Henderson); Jean’s Scene; Bewitched (Richard Rogers); Philly Smash Tune; Not While I’m Around (Stephen Sondheim); Sweet Prince; Personality (Johnny Burke and Jimmy van Heusen).

Chris Oatts: Personalities

by Victor L. Schermer
August 15, 2022

Saxophonist Chris Oatts is a graduate of the jazz program at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance and the nephew of revered saxophonist—and faculty member of Temple University—Dick Oatts. This reviewer heard Chris Oatts at Chris' Jazz Café (similarity in the names purely coincidental) in September, 2021, with his quintet featuring one of his ...

Chris Oatts Quintet featuring Terell Stafford at Chris’ Jazz Café

by Victor L. Schermer
September 14, 2021

Chris Oatts Quintet featuring Terell Stafford Chris' Jazz Café Live and Streaming Philadelphia, PA September 10, 2021 This was the reviewer's first time at a live performance in a jazz club since the start of the corona virus pandemic a year and a half ago. A ...

Nick Lombardelli: Secret Suite

by Kyle Simpler
March 28, 2021

It's easy to see the influence of blues and popular music in jazz. After all, many jazz standards were originally popular songs, and blues is where jazz music originated. Classical music, though, has also featured prominently in jazz, but it doesn't always get the same level of recognition. However, some of the greatest jazz musicians and ...

The Straggler

January 30, 2021

Album: Secret Suite
By Nick Lombardelli
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Duration: 07:10

Secret Suite

By Nick Lombardelli

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Estrangement Saga; The Straggler; Solid Ground; Lost Track; A New View.

Chris Oatts Quintet at Chris’ Jazz Cafe

by Victor L. Schermer
June 26, 2017

Chris Oatts Quintet Chris's Jazz Cafe Philadelphia, PA June 23, 2017 Philadelphia keeps churning out great musicians, and one of those who is beginning to generate considerable interest is Chris Oatts. A graduate of Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance, he is the nephew of legendary saxophonist Dick Oatts, ...