WINNER OF THE 2007 INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARD FOR BEST JAZZ ALBUM

Here the history based on real events which was thought up by admirers of his creativity and it is simple its adorers. During far far times, the microphone was not necessary to jazz trumpet players. Sounds of music were so pure and shrill, that they filled with themselves all space of ballrooms and clubs without the help of everyone electronics - so was musicians like Ben Webster and Chuck Berry. Ernie Watts continues this legend. Only few musicians are reputed so many-sided and expressed as the musician as outstanding saxophonist Ernie Watts. Being the blossoming a creative power American jazzman has begun the triumphal ocurrence in the world of the big music twenty years’, having managed at so young age to make the way in an orchestra most Buddy Rich. For more than 30-years career Ernie Watts has records 12 albums, became the owner of the highest award in the field of music, Grammy twice. Cocker, James Brown, Houston, McCartney’s, Rollin Stones band -
all of them considered it as honour to work with the most dear saxophonist post-coltrain period. In 1981 under Mick Jagger invitation Ernie Watts has joined tour of group across the USA, and also has taken part in Rolling Stone’s legendary film “Let’s Spend the Night Together”.
Absolute authority above the sax: no empty note, no rash phrase; ability to introduce a power saturation and passion (in a combination to good taste) in any piece of music. “What music would i play, it is not important on a stage or in studio, in loneliness or for spectators when I would not take a saxophone in hands, music for me always is in the foreground. For me the most important to play, because I trust, what exactly during such moments music is a song of the god which sounds through me in this world “

Ernie Watts experimented with electronic instruments in the ‘70s, went straight back to acoustic ones, and has stayed there. If all the power went off at an Ernie Watts Quartet concert, they could keep right on playing, and the audience would know that the most valuable kind of electricity was still being produced.

• 1. Analog Man
• 2. Elements
• 3. Paseando
• 4. Clinton Parkview
• 5. Company
• 6. Joshua
• 7. A Lilac Grows
• 8. Gee Baby
• 9. Morning Prayer

This type of electricity comes from a group of committed jazz musicians who have played together for years, have personal as well as musical connections, and unite as one in performance. As Ernie says, “We become music.”

Musicians

• Ernie Watts - Saxophones
• Christof Saenger - Piano
• Rudi Engel - Bass
• Heinrich Koebberling - Drums

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