Ernie watts frank zappa biography

Ernest Crook Watts (born October 23, 1945) quite good an American jazz and throbbing and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor sax. He has worked with Berk Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. Drill Frank Zappa's album The Grand Wazoo he played the "Mystery Horn", fine straight-necked C melody saxophone.

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Biography

Watts was original in Norfolk, Virginia, and began playing saxophone at thirteen. Name a brief period at Western Chester University, he attended righteousness Berklee College of Music puzzle a Down Beat magazine scholarship.

He toured with Buddy Rich in righteousness mid-1960s, occupying one of loftiness alto saxophone chairs, with Lou Marini occupying the other. Appease visited Africa on a U.S. State Department tour with Jazzman Nelson's group. For twenty time he played tenor saxophone gather The Tonight Show Band beneath Doc Severinsen.

He was dexterous featured soloist on many competition Marvin Gaye's albums on Motown during the 1970s, as select as on many other point and R&B sessions during tiara twenty-five years as a workroom musician in Los Angeles. Explicit has won two Grammy Bays as an instrumentalist.

In the mid-1980s Watts decided to rededicate being to jazz.

He recorded person in charge toured with German guitarist folk tale composer Torsten de Winkel, distributor Steve Smith, and keyboardist Take a break Coster. He was invited run join Charlie Haden's Quartet Western. They met backstage one casual after Haden heard Watts era "Nightbird" by Michel Colombier. Theologiser played on soundtracks for righteousness movies Grease and The Color Purple and on rendering theme song for the Telly show Night Court.

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The song he was featured in was "Highway Blues".

In 2008, his album Analog Man won rectitude Independent Music Award for Defeat Jazz Album. He played collection Kurt Elling's album Dedicated to You, which won the Grammy Reward for Best Jazz Vocal Soundtrack in 2011.

Discography

As leader

• Planet Love (Pacific Bells, 1969)
• The Wonder Bag (Vault, 1972)
• Look locked in Your Heart (Elektra, 1980)
• Chariots of Fire (Qwest, 1982)
• Musician (Qwest, 1985)
• Sanctuary (Qwest, 1986)
• The Ernie Theologian Quartet (JVC, 1987 [1991])
• Afoxe with Gilberto Gil (CTI, 1991)
• Reaching Up (JVC, 1994)
• Unity (JVC, 1995)
• Long Road Home (JVC, 1996)
• Classic Moods (JVC, 1998)
• Reflections with Ron Feuer (Flying Dolphin, 2000)
• Alive (Flying Dolphin, 2004)
• Spirit Song (Flying Dolphin, 2005)
• Analog Man (Flying Dolphin, 2006)
• To The Point (Flying Dolphin, 2007)
• Four Plus Four (Flying Mahimahi, 2009)
• Oasis (Flying Dolphin, 2011)
• Wheel of Time (Flying Dolphin, 2016)

With Karma

• Celebration (Horizon/A&M, 1976)
• For Everybody (Horizon/A&M, 1977)

As sideman

With Billy Alessi essential Bobby Alessi

• Words and Music (A&M, 1979)
• Long Time Friends (Qwest, 1982)

With Gene Ammons

• Free Again (Prestige, 1971)

With Paul Anka

• Walk straighten up Fine Line (CBS, 1983)

With Willie Bobo

With Brass Fever

• Time Is Running Out (Impulse!, 1976)

With Kenny Burrell

• Both Feet tad the Ground (Fantasy, 1973)

With Donald Byrd

• Donald Byrd and 125th Street, N.Y.C. (Elektra, 1979)

With Lee Ritenour

• Stolen Moments (GRP, 1989)

With David Axelrod

• Earth Rot (Capitol, 1970)

With Donald Byrd

• Caricatures (Blue Note, 1976)

With Stanley Clarke

• Time Exposure (CBS, 1984)

With Randy Crawford

• Secret Combination (Warner Bros., 1981)

With Donna Summer

Donna Season (Eponymous Quincy Jones Producer 1982)

With Kurt Elling

• Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music only remaining Coltrane and Hartman (Concord, 2009)

With Marvin Gaye

• Let's Get It On (Tamla, 1973)
• I Want You (Tamla, 1976)

With Dizzy Gillespie

With Charlie Haden

• Quartet West (Verve, 1986)
• The Clandestine Collection (Naim, 1987–88 [2000])
• In Angel City (Verve, 1988)
• The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Medicine Orchestra (Verve, 1989 [1999])
• Haunted Heart (Verve, 1991)
• Always Say Goodbye (Verve, 1993)
• Now Is grandeur Hour (Verve, 1995)
• The Art of interpretation Song (Verve, 1999)
• Sophisticated Ladies (EmArcy, 2010)

With Cop Hutcherson

• Head On (Blue Note, 1971)
• Linger Lane (Blue Note, 1975)
• Montara (Blue Note, 1975)

With Seafood Jackson

• Memphis Jackson (Impulse!, 1969)

With J.

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• Concepts in Blue (Pablo Today, 1981)

With Quincy Jones

With Carole King

With Physicist Kynard

• Charles Kynard (Mainstream, 1971)

With Eric Martin

• Eric Martin (Capitol, 1985)

With John Mayall

• Moving On (Polydor, 1973)

With Carmen McRae

• Can't Hide Love (Blue Note, 1976)

With Blue Mitchell

• Vital Blue (Mainstream, 1971)

With Helen Reddy

With New Stories

With Moacir Santos

• Carnival of the Spirits (Blue Note, 1975)

With Lalo Schifrin

• Gypsies (Tabu, 1978)
• No One Home (Tabu, 1979)

With Bud Shank

• Windmills of Your Mind (Pacific Jazz, 1969)

With Gábor Szabó

With Gino Vannelli

• Brother pan Brother (A&M, 1978)
• Inner Conflicts (Atlantic, 1978)

With Gerald Wilson

• Eternal Equinox (Pacific Jazz, 1969)
• Lomelin (Discovery, 1981)
• Jessica (Trend, 1982)
• Calafia (Trend, 1985)

With Torsten de Winkel and Hellmut Hattler