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Ernie Watts

Born: October 23, 1945

Two-time Grammy Award winner Ernie Watts is one of the most versatile and prolific saxophone players on the music scene. In a diverse career that has spanned more than thirty years, he has been featured on more than 500 recordings by artists ranging from Cannonball Adderley to Frank Zappa, always exhibiting his unforgettable trademark sound. After 18 solo records for a variety of labels, large and small, Watts started Flying Dolphin Records, a company he runs with his wife Patricia. Flying Dolphin (distributed by Burnside Distribution Corp.) begins a new chapter for the artist’s creative expression

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2024

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 2, 2024

Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo Varie sedi 21-24.3.2024 La quarantacinquesima edizione di Bergamo Jazz coincide con il passaggio di testimone nella direzione artistica da Maria Pia De Vito allo statunitense Joe Lovano, più volte ospite come musicista della rassegna orobica. La formula è quella consolidata da anni: tre serate con doppio concerto ...

Jeremy Monteiro: Sings

by Ian Patterson
December 12, 2023

Singapore's King of Swing, as pianist Jeremy Monteiro is fondly known in the Lion City-state, has been plying his professional craft since 1976. Since then, Monteiro has played thousands of gigs, many of those with the likes of James Moody, Jimmy Cobb, Michael Brecker, Benny Golson, Charlie Haden, Jay Anderson and Ernie Watts. Talk about paying ...

In the Studios-West Coast: Part 2

by Monk Rowe
August 3, 2023

Where Clifford Brown Learned to Play: Love In A Wilmington Neighborhood

by Arthur R George
June 20, 2023

Part 1 | Part 2 Robert “Boysie" Lowery was trumpeter Clifford Brown's first music instructor in the early 1940s, and mentored decades of young musicians thereafter in jny: Wilmington, Delaware. He taught as a sideline to club work, a resource for his community but caring not so much about being paid for his lessons. ...

Seattle Jazz Fellowship: How One Week Told the Story of a Jazz Nonprofit's First Year

by Paul Rauch
May 4, 2023

When jny: Seattle-based trumpeter Thomas Marriott announced the founding of a new 501(c)3 nonprofit to support the local jazz scene in his hometown, both the enormity of its possibilities and its challenges merged front and center in the collective mind of the Seattle jazz community. Over the past decade, the city had lost its ...

Waka/Wazoo

By Frank Zappa

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing:
CD 1

Your Mouth (Take 1); Big Swifty (Alternate Take); Minimal Art (Eat That Question—Version 1, Take 2); Blessed Relief (Outtake Version); Think It Over (The Grand Wazoo) (Outtake Version); For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (Outtake Version); Waka/Jawaka (Outtake Version)

CD 2

Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus (Alternate Take); Eat That Question (Version 2, Alternate Take); Big Swifty (Alternate Mix); For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (Alternate Mix); It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal (Alternate Mix); Waka/Jawaka (Alternate Mix); Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus (Alternate Mix); Eat That Question (Alternate Mix)

CD 3

For Love (I Come Your Friend); Psychosomatic Dung; Uncle Remus (Instrumental); Love; For Love (I Come Your Friend) (Basic Track, Take 1); Psychosomatic Dung (Basic Track, Take 2); Love (Basic Track, Take 1); Approximate (FZ Record Plant Mix); Winterland '72 Opening and Band Introductions; Little Dots

CD 4

America Drinks; Montana; Farther O'Blivion; Cosmik Debris; Chungàs Revenge.

Donald Fagen: An Essential Top 10 Albums

by Peter Jones
October 9, 2022

Actually, the whole notion of a Donald Fagen Top Ten is tricky. Artists like Chet Baker made well over a hundred albums, whereas in half a century Fagen has only released 13 official studio albums, whether with Steely Dan or under his own name, along with a handful of live sets. The process of selecting the ...

Ches Smith, Gretchen Parlato, Sam Rivers and Others

by Jerome Wilson
August 24, 2022

This is, as usual, an extremely eclectic show, this time featuring big bands, vocalists, some Latin flavors and much more. Artists heard on the show include Ches Smith, Martin Bejerano, Sam Rivers, Gretchen Parlato and the David Sanford Big Band. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete ...

Andy Wheelock: View from Here

by Jack Bowers
December 31, 2021

When high-caliber musicians invest time and effort to produce music they believe in, one is loath to dismiss it as anything less than persuasive. On the other hand, any assessment of Colorado-based drummer Andy Wheelock's album, View from Here, must be tempered by an awareness that this is his special view, and that of his group, ...