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Richard Watters

Born: May 13

Hi! I’m a long time jazz fan and occasional Chicago-area musician (trumpet/flugelhorn). I began playing trumpet about 1962 as a grade-school student. By my Senior year at Downers Grove South Highschool I was a member of five different music organizations: Marching Band, Chamber Band, Orchestra, Jazz Band and various brass ensembles. During my latter years of highschool (1969-1971), I attended the 9th, 10th and 11th Annual Oak Lawn Jazz Festivals (a.k.a. Annual Chicagoland Stage Band Festival) as a member of the Downers Grove South Highschool Stage Band. The festival featured 110 or so highschool bands competing for the top 5 honors on the Sunday night show when the winning bands, ensembles and soloists were announced after a weekend of judging and clinics with the sidemen from the hosting band...during one of these fests I had the opportunity to "sit in" with the hosting band (for one tune) which happened to be Stan Kenton's Big Band