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Kobie Watkins
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Watkins, who has three brothers and four sisters, was born in Chicago on July 26, 1975. His interest in music was sparked at around age three when he first saw his father playing drums at a local Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God. Prior to devoting himself to religion, Alious C. Watkins Jr. had played trap drums and other percussion instruments with the Pharaohs, a now-legendary jazz-funk group in which Earth, Wind & Fire leader Maurice White had been the original drummer, and he also backed the Dells on local engagements. His dad’s drumming led Kobie and his brothers to bang on pots and pans around the house
More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
By Bobby Broom
Label: Chicago Jazz Orchestra Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Road Song;
What the World Needs Now is Love;
Four on Six;
West Coast Blues;
Somewhere;
More, More, Amor;
Fried Pies;
Baubles, Bangles, and Beads;
Dreamsville;
Boss City.
Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by Jack Bowers
When the Chicago Jazz Orchestra decided to record a tribute to Wes Montgomery, the choice of who would sit in for the legendary guitarist was obvious: Bobby Broom, a stellar guitarist in his own right who has called Chicago home for more than forty years and had performed a concert version of the album at Chicago's ...
In These Hills, Beyond
Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Fellowship; Imaginary Folk Song; Magic Music Man; Balance Wheel; Handwritten;
Another
Monster; Waterway; Detour; Forgotten Dreams.
Jamalot
By Bobby Broom
Label: Steele Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Intro Announcement; Superstition; Band Introductions; Layla; The Tennessee Waltz; The Jitterbug Waltz; The House Of The Rising Sun; Tadd's Delight; The Long And Winding Road; Speak Low.
FOUR + Six
By Mark Watkins
Label: Jazz Hang Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: On Any Given Day in Summer;
Don't Care Who Knows It;
Against My Desire to Imagine;
The Executioner is Looking Away;
Shouldn'a Did That;
Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow and Forever;
Without Another Word.
New Live Recording From Trumpeter Chad McCullough on Calligram Records
Reflecting on In these hills, beyond , trumpeter and composer Chad McCullough says “this album is a celebration of life, but it wasn't planned that way. I just wanted to play great music with my friends, as lofty a goal as I have most of the time. However, the recent passing of my grandfather added more ...
The Bobby Broom Organi-Sation: Jamalot
by Chris May
When Jimmy Smith brought the tablets down from the mountain, one of the commandments decreed that the job of an organ trio was to mix jazz standards with pop tunes and mash them all up into a seamless joyous brew. Guitarist Bobby Broom keeps to the original recipe on the live album Jamalot, recorded in 2014 ...
Mark Watkins: FOUR + Six
by Chris May
We had out of nowhere, we had straight outta Compton. Here comes straight out of Brigham Young University, Idaho, where saxophone quartet FOUR leader Mark Watkins has been director of jazz studies since 1999. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints may not the most abundant source of high-grade jazz--one assumes that Watkins is a ...
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FOUR
Continuing a long tradition of wonderful jazz saxophone quartet recordings FOUR adds trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, bass and drums for a smorgasbord of new tunes by the amazing composer, Mark Watkins.
FOUR is Mark Watkins, soprano saxophone; Ray Smith, alto saxophone; Sandon Mayhew, tenor saxophone; and Jon Gudmundson, baritone saxophone.
They are joined by Derrick Gardner, trumpet (Count Basie Band); Vincent Gardner, trombone (lead trombone with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra); Justin Nielsen, piano; Corey Christiansen, guitar; Braun Kahn, bass; and Kobie Watkins, drums (Sonny Rollins). (See Gordon Goodwin’s review in the FOUR bio and Mark’s own notes.)
