July 2011
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April 2011
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In the news...
Here are some recent reviews of Circular:
Downbeat Magazine By Ken Micallef
JazzTimes Magazine By Bill Milkowski
The Australian By John McBeath
Something Else!
Digital Jazz Reviews
Jazz Police
Luxury Experience
Available now…iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby & Dark Key Music
March 2011
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My cd CIRCULAR is released April 19 on the Dark...
September 2010
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The NYFA Collection
My composition “Daize” has been included in the 5 cd set release “The NYFA Collection” 25 Years of New York Music. released this month by Innova Recordings.
The multiple discs feature works by 52 composers, all of whom are NYFA Fellows. The whole set is only $30 and you can buy the tracks on iTunes also. The performance of my piece is by; Laura Kahle- pocket...
August 2010
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Music that has influenced me...
Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis & Gil Evans
Plantation Lullabies - Meshell Ndegeocello
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
There’s a Riot Goin’ On - Sly & the Family Stone
Black Saint & the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
The Far East Suite - Duke Ellington
Fulfillingness’ First Finale - Stevie Wonder
The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman
My arrangement of Michael Brecker’s...
July 2010
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DR Big Band →
Here is a link to preview and buy the cd “The Impaler” recorded by The DR Big Band featuring Jeff “Tain” Watts in 2009. I arranged 5 of the tracks: “Return of the Jitney Man”, “Blutain”, “PAEN”, “Two Blocks from the Edge” and “The Impaler”.
My composition Lighter Skies featuring vocalist...
“Live simply so others may simply live.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Travels
I have had the great fortune to travel throughout my life….
Morea, Tahiti 2005
San Juan, 2006
Amsterdam 2007
Bangkok, Thailand 2008
Italy 2009
all photos by Jeff Watts
“Tears from a glass eye”
– Bill Lee