Bobby Watson

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Bustalk 01:30 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 05:14 Tools
Vauncing Chimes 05:23 Tools
Appointment in Milano 10:00 Tools
Love remains 09:25 Tools
Blues for alto 06:07 Tools
Wilkes BBQ 06:35 Tools
The love we had yesterday 05:51 Tools
Sho Thang 04:49 Tools
Dark Days (For Nelson Mandela) 06:23 Tools
lemoncello 07:11 Tools
Back home again with you 05:28 Tools
What a Woman Can Do 05:28 Tools
Ode for Aaron 03:38 Tools
The Guitarist "For Grant Green" 05:12 Tools
The Mystery Of Ebop 09:06 Tools
For Milt 04:16 Tools
Take the 'A' Train 09:09 Tools
He's More Good Than Bad 03:58 Tools
Always A Friend 05:30 Tools
In Case You Missed It 08:19 Tools
Looking In Your Eyes 07:27 Tools
Purple Flowers 07:26 Tools
From The Heart 04:21 Tools
The misery of ebop 00:00 Tools
(i'm) Always Missing You 08:01 Tools
Karita 08:04 Tools
Climbing The Stairs 00:00 Tools
All Blues 15:19 Tools
Cristo Redentor 07:21 Tools
Falling In Love With Love 06:32 Tools
Big Girls 05:41 Tools
Why Not 05:49 Tools
Aye Carumba 06:43 Tools
Deep Pockets 07:24 Tools
Timeless 07:24 Tools
At The Crossroads 05:23 Tools
In A Sentimental Mood 07:56 Tools
7th Avenue 05:34 Tools
Afternoon In Ottobrun (For Manfred and Dorothee) 04:52 Tools
Horizon Reassembled 06:54 Tools
pere 07:49 Tools
Quiet As It's Kept 08:08 Tools
The Look Of Love 05:27 Tools
We Fall Down 06:01 Tools
The Punjab Of Java Po' 05:28 Tools
Faith In Action 05:32 Tools
Isfahan 04:07 Tools
I've Gotta Be Me 06:54 Tools
Wheel Within A Wheel 07:01 Tools
Peace, Love, and Carrots 05:01 Tools
Bah-da-da-da-dah-dah 05:11 Tools
Last Chance To Groove 06:04 Tools
Watson's Blues 06:26 Tools
Slippin' & Slidin' 06:02 Tools
Nubian Breakdown 06:57 Tools
Donna Lee 03:24 Tools
Marcus Vein 03:50 Tools
permanoon 06:14 Tools
Sweet Dreams 07:46 Tools
If Bird Could See Me Now 03:31 Tools
Xangongo 05:07 Tools
Stanky P 08:08 Tools
Let It Go 08:08 Tools
Ballando (dancing) 07:59 Tools
Just For Today 06:53 Tools
Dark Days (Interlude) 02:07 Tools
Ginger Bread Boy 05:50 Tools
E.T.A. 07:32 Tools
Dark Days 04:24 Tools
Del Corazón 07:59 Tools
Mirrors (We All Need) 06:22 Tools
Eeeyyess 06:52 Tools
Thank You 05:50 Tools
The Theme 03:44 Tools
Confirmation 11:13 Tools
But Not For Me 10:15 Tools
Watch The Children Play 04:09 Tools
You're Lucky To Me 05:15 Tools
This Little Light of Mine 03:38 Tools
Funcalypso 07:10 Tools
Lafiya 03:58 Tools
The Aviator "For Wendell Pruitt" 09:04 Tools
Blues Of Hope 10:59 Tools
I Heard You're Lonely 10:59 Tools
Mabel Is Able 05:24 Tools
Dual Conersation 06:27 Tools
River Jordan 06:15 Tools
Moses Supposes 03:46 Tools
Monk He See, Monk He Do 06:35 Tools
Hey Now 05:40 Tools
Ms. B.C. 05:22 Tools
Time Will Tell 12:19 Tools
Beam Me Up 06:08 Tools
Ms.B.C. 14:06 Tools
Present Tense 09:04 Tools
I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good 05:40 Tools
Landmarks Lost 07:18 Tools
Midwest Shuffle 07:56 Tools
Interlude (To Be Continued...) 01:11 Tools
Nanatsu-No-Ko 07:15 Tools
Cherokee 11:48 Tools
Misterioso 03:28 Tools
Dex Mex 05:14 Tools
The Jockey "For Isaac Murphy" 05:14 Tools
Old Time Ways 06:54 Tools
Recordame 03:20 Tools
Things Ain't What They Used To Be 04:49 Tools
These Foolish Things 04:21 Tools
The Shadow Of Your Smile 11:48 Tools
A Moment of Silence 03:44 Tools
Conservation 06:11 Tools
Someone to Give It To 06:11 Tools
Minority 05:14 Tools
Quiet as Its's Kept 03:20 Tools
To See Her Face 06:11 Tools
The Butterfly "For Butterfly Mcqueen" 00:42 Tools
Ladies 08:22 Tools
Postlude 03:44 Tools
The Cats 00:49 Tools
Welcome 00:49 Tools
Complex Dialogue 08:47 Tools
A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing 04:21 Tools
Concentric Circles 08:22 Tools
Blues For Claude 08:18 Tools
Sundance 03:15 Tools
Bush Song 03:19 Tools
The Computer Scientist "For Dr. Mark Dean" 06:10 Tools
Free Yourself 03:19 Tools
Long Way Home 06:10 Tools
Epilogue 1 00:42 Tools
The Cyclist "For Major Taylor" 03:19 Tools
Tudo Bem (All Is Okay) 06:28 Tools
What's Next 06:28 Tools
Unfold 15:40 Tools
5/4 05:30 Tools
Catch Me If You Can (Jazz Mambo) 04:58 Tools
Finger Games 02:28 Tools
Simon Says 02:28 Tools
Recorda Me 03:19 Tools
The Real Lone Ranger "For Bass Reeves" 04:58 Tools
The G.O.A.T. "For Sammy Davis, Jr." 04:58 Tools
The Entrepreneur "For Madam C.J. Walker" 04:58 Tools
Check Cashing Day (For Ms. Trudy) [feat. Glenn North] 04:35 Tools
Like It Was Before 03:19 Tools
Christo Redentor 03:19 Tools
I'll Love You Always 04:58 Tools
That Doo-wah Thing from 'It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing': Part 2, duet/fugue 09:07 Tools
Mantilla's Jam 07:05 Tools
Live & Learn 02:28 Tools
Live and Learn 04:58 Tools
Unit Seven 06:16 Tools
T.P. Call Home 04:35 Tools
Round Midnight 07:57 Tools
Rock the House 04:50 Tools
P.D. On Great Jones Street 06:16 Tools
Luqman'S Dream 06:16 Tools
Giant Steps 03:06 Tools
Body and Soul 04:05 Tools
Mes' Tou Bosporou Ta Stena - Take 1 02:28 Tools
Tico Tico 04:01 Tools
A Blues of Hope 07:23 Tools
Beef On Bun 00:30 Tools
Jeep's Blues 07:28 Tools
Black Is Back (feat. Glenn North) 02:13 Tools
'Round Midnight 07:57 Tools
Over and Over 03:02 Tools
Pannonica 05:34 Tools
The Guitarist 02:11 Tools
Lies 04:28 Tools
Ain't That Loving You 05:58 Tools
May I Help You? 11:06 Tools
Yebga and Me 02:50 Tools
Afternoon In Ottobrun 04:53 Tools
Bustalk (Album Version) 10:19 Tools
Blood Count 04:13 Tools
Gumbo 10:19 Tools
Sensitive Kind 06:24 Tools
The Jeep Is Jumpin' 07:28 Tools
From East To West 11:06 Tools
The Originator 06:14 Tools
The Punjab Of Java Po 04:53 Tools
Squatty Roo 07:23 Tools
People Get Ready 04:28 Tools
Mlk On Jazz (Love Transforms) [feat. Glenn North] 02:11 Tools
The Thing's You Do 04:53 Tools
Point The Finger 02:14 Tools
Progress 03:59 Tools
Heavy On The Sauce! 05:58 Tools
Love Remains - Bobby Watson Quartet 04:53 Tools
Blue in Green 02:11 Tools
Honey Bunny 04:53 Tools
Premonition 02:14 Tools
Driving Wheel 07:39 Tools
Blue Sax 05:50 Tools
Five One Four 02:14 Tools
For Children of All Ages 05:58 Tools
Forty Acres and a Mule (feat. Glenn North) 04:28 Tools
North Carolina 07:39 Tools
Black Is Back Reprise (feat. Richard Johnson) 01:53 Tools
Maybe 02:46 Tools
My Song (feat. Glenn North) 01:59 Tools
Peace Love 02:46 Tools
Del Corazon 05:58 Tools
Chili Plaza Suite 07:39 Tools
Dark Days (feat. Glenn North) 04:07 Tools
'b' On The Break 07:04 Tools
Country Corn Flakes 06:24 Tools
Round Trip 04:51 Tools
The Triad (Martin, Malcom, Ghandi) 05:14 Tools
Seekers of the Sun (Son) [feat. Pamela Baskin-Watson] 06:46 Tools
Good Queen Bees 04:28 Tools
Someone Like You 07:21 Tools
Tore Down 07:39 Tools
John Henry 07:39 Tools
Sweet Rotunda 07:39 Tools
Heckle and Jeckle 05:28 Tools
The Inventor (for Dad) 06:13 Tools
The Shaw of Newark 05:46 Tools
The Long Way Home 06:13 Tools
Agaya 06:24 Tools
Day Dream 06:24 Tools
I Can't Quit 00:30 Tools
Hey Baby 07:21 Tools
You 07:21 Tools
Revival (Ovedia) [feat. Glenn North] 04:13 Tools
New Moon 05:14 Tools
Claudia's Car 07:07 Tools
Vaunching Chimes 07:07 Tools
The Sun 05:05 Tools
Lou B 06:24 Tools
Ceora 04:51 Tools
Good Queen Bess 04:51 Tools
Dual Conversation 05:15 Tools
Beattitudes 04:13 Tools
Come Sunday (feat. Pamela Baskin-Watson) 04:10 Tools
Mes' Tou Bosporou Ta Stena (Take 1) 04:10 Tools
Out House 04:01 Tools
My Little Suede Shoes 05:15 Tools
Night Dreamer 08:09 Tools
The Narrow Pass of Bosphorous 08:09 Tools
The G.O.A.T. 04:13 Tools
Homemade Blues (for Bo) 04:51 Tools
And Then Again 08:07 Tools
Blues for Ollie 00:30 Tools
Ms. B.C. (For Betty Carter) 07:21 Tools
Forty Acres and a Mule 07:21 Tools
Downtown Bonanza 07:39 Tools
Sip a Little Honey 07:39 Tools
Mes' Tou Bosporou Ta Stena (Take 2) 04:13 Tools
No Question About It 04:52 Tools
Mr. P.C. 00:30 Tools
Ballando(Dancing) 04:52 Tools
There Is No Greater Love 00:30 Tools
What Can I Do For You 07:21 Tools
Grow Old With You 07:21 Tools
Back In The Day 07:39 Tools
Climbing Stairs 07:39 Tools
Dreams So Real (Ammoyaianh) 07:39 Tools
Moonrise 07:39 Tools
Bobby Watson / Back Home Again With You 00:30 Tools
Make Her Mine 00:30 Tools
The Roach 00:30 Tools
Cristo Redendor 00:30 Tools
The Aviator 'For Wendell Pruitt' 00:30 Tools
Pecado Primero 00:30 Tools
Hi-tech Trap 00:30 Tools
If 00:30 Tools
The President's Tray 00:30 Tools
Point Thefinger 00:30 Tools
The Computer Scientist 'For Dr. Mark Dean' 00:30 Tools
The Guitarist 'For Grant Green' 00:30 Tools
Perpetual Groove 00:30 Tools
Mes' Tou Bosporou Ta Stena - Take 2 02:24 Tools
The Happy Song 04:37 Tools
Neptunian Verses 11:52 Tools
Madagascar 11:52 Tools
The Alcyon 08:41 Tools
8 / 9 08:41 Tools
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Bobby Watson, (b. Aug. 23, 1953, Lawrence, KS.) came from a musical family, and by the time he was 18, came to New York, where he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. With a line up that included Valery Ponamarev, David Schnitter, James Williams and other outstanding musicians, Watson soon became musical director of the Messengers. The band eventually came to include Wynton Marsalis, Billy Pierce and Charles Fambrough, among others. Watson wrote "Ms. B.C." (for the legendary Betty Carter) and "In Case You Missed It" (also called "Fuller Love," in honor of the trombone player, Curtis Fuller) both songs appearing on one of Blakey's greatest albums, "Album of the Year" (1980). Also wrote "Hawkman," "E.T.A.," "Wheel Within a Wheel" and many other songs while part of Blakey's group. Bobby soon started putting out albums on his own, including "Jewel" (1983), recorded with a young Mulgrew Miller, Steve Nelson on vibes, and Marvin "Smitty" Smith. He also recorded a record with an Italian trio, entitled "Appointment in Milano" (1985). This is a rare album, and will likely sound like a period piece to some listeners, but is an excellent example of Watson's exuberant energy and style. A prolific recorder, Watson's efforts are far too numerous to mention here. Some of those albums, would however, include "No Question About It" (1988), the first album Watson recorded with the band Horizon. "The Inventor" followed a year later, and includes some of the dreamiest and most romantic composing Watson has done. Watson's trumpeter on this album was Melton Mustafa. Mustafa, an alum of the same music department Watson had attended in Florida, was soon replaced on the bandstand by Terrell Stafford. Stafford performed on the big band album, "Tailor Made," as well as the live CD, "MIdwest Shuffle," and is currently a professor in the music department at Temple University, in Philadelphia. The composition of Horizon has changed, but with minor exceptions, the high quality of the music has been consistent. "From the Heart" (2008) is Horizon's latest effort, and finds Bobby in the role of "mentor," which he points out in the notes to the CD, itself. Watson has for a long time been in heavy demand as a sideman, and has appeared with everybody from Sam Rivers and Panama Francis and the Savoy Sultans to Will Calhoun, and Bobby's long-time friend Curtis Lundy, the brother of singer Carmen Lundy. No mention of Watson's musical interests should omit Bobby's involvement with the reconstituted 29th Street Saxophone Quartet, which includes Jim Hartog, Ed Jackson and Willie Williams. Bobby Watson is married to Pamela Watson, a singer and songwriter in her own right, They have two children, Aaron and Lafiya. Bobby devoted one track on his big band CD, "Tailor Made" to Lafiya, who has devoted some of her time to taking photographs and helping in the design of some of his latest CD's. Bobby is a music professor at the University of Missouri, but manages to keep up a reasonable touring schedule. At 55, Watson, one of the world's great alto saxophone players, is still in fine form. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.