#billwatrous

[projazznet]

Bill Watrous & Carl Fontana – Bill Watrous & Carl Fontana

A classic and rare combination, this wonderful album should satisfy the most demanding aficionados of modern jazz trombone.” – Steve Loewy/AllMusic

[jettajimm]

Happy Birthday @ChadWackermanofficial! 🎂🎈🎁🎊🎉🥳 Have a rockin' one! 🎼🥁 #ChadWackerman #ChadWackermanTrio #FrankZappa #AndySummers #AllanHoldsworth #MenAtWork #JoeSample #JohnPatitucci #JamesTaylor #SteveVai #EdMann #AlbertLee #DweezilZappa #BillWatrous #ColinHay #StevenWilson #BarbaraStreisand #RamsHeadOnStage #Lumix #TZ5

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[profstrych9]

Bill Wattrous • Manhattan Wildlife Refuge (CBS, 1974) #billwatrous #dannystiles #johngatchell #mysonicarchive #jazzlegends #nowspinning #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #vinyligcommunity (at Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcXh7lMUm9/?igshid=ypafgcvxeyi6

[andrewsmusic]

Maynard Ferguson / Bill Watrous (Down Beat - April 5th 1975) #repostjazzinprint #downbeatmagazine #jazzinprint #jazz #jazzmusic #jazzmusician #andrewsmusic #maynardferguson #jazztrumpeter #jazztrumpet #billwatrous #jazztrombonist #jazztrombone https://www.instagram.com/p/CECq5BYJrPB/?igshid=drl1b0pqkhi1

[henriquegil-trbn]

Hoje as 14h Café da tarde ao som de Bill Watrous no trombone #jazz #music #trombone #billwatrous https://www.instagram.com/p/B-udhQWlXBx/?igshid=1eohe8iiy65yf

[jazzanews]

Chick Corea - spain - 1975 #BillWatrous - tbn; #HubertLaws - fl; #ChickCorea - keybds; #GeorgeBenson - gtr; #StanleyClarke - bs; #LennyWhite - dr; Airto -perc,    #jazz #jazzmusic #jazzfunk #fusion #jazzlegend #jazzanews

[budaallmusic]

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson ‎– 1980 #Arista 1980 US Arranged By – Brian Jackson Art Direction – #DonnDavenport, #RonKellum Backing Vocals – Brian Jackson (tracks: B1), #JuliaWaters, #MartiMcCall, #MaxineWaters Drums – #HarveyMason (tracks: A2 to B4) Flute, Saxophone – #CarlCornwell (tracks: B1, B2) Guitar – #EdBrady (tracks: B1, B2), #MarloHenderson (tracks: A2, A4, B4) Horns – #BillWatrous, #DenisSirias, #GordonGoodwin Lyrics By – Gill Scott-Heron Music By – Brian Jackson (tracks: A4), Gil Scott-Heron Photography – #JohnFord Piano, Electric Piano, Keyboards, Synthesizer – #BrianJackson Producer – Brian Jackson, Gill Scott-Heron Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Malcolm Cecil Timpani – Brian Jackson (tracks: B3) Vocals, Piano – #GilScottHeron https://www.instagram.com/p/Brs4weggmbY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gkeshq56zenv

[bluesketches]

Kenny Burrell 

Every Day I Have the Blues

🎧 https://youtu.be/P6D08puSgFE

Album: Blues - The Common Ground (1968)

Kenny Burrell - guitar Bernie Glow, Jimmy Owens, Snooky Young - trumpet Wayne Andre, Jimmy Cleveland, Paul Faulise, Bill Watrous - trombone Don Butterfield - tuba Jerome Richardson - reeds Herbie Hancock - piano Ron Carter - bass Donald McDonald - drums Johnny Pacheco - percussion Don Sebesky - arranger

[kari3622-blog]

Paul Desmond "Summertime" ポール・デズモンドの欧州のBlue Noteと呼ばれるCTIからの作品。柔らかく丸いサウンド。カラッと爽やか、さらっと優雅、全く力みのないリラックス出来る清楚な演奏。彼の世界観は好感が持てる。 #PaulDesmond (as), WayneAndre / PaulFaulise / UrbieGreen / #JJJohnson / BillWatrous / KaiWinding (tb), BurtCollins / JohnEckert / JoeShepley / MarvinStamm (tp, flh), RayAlonge / JimmyBuffington / TonyMiranda (french horn), GeorgeMarge (flute, oboe), BobTricarico (flute, bassoon), #HerbieHancock (p), JayBerliner (Track 7, 8, 10)/ JoeBeck (Track 1)/ EumirDeodato (Track 8)/ BuckyPizzarelli (Track 3) (g), FrankBruno (Track 3 only)/ #RonCarter (b), LeoMorris (ds), MikeMainieri (vibraphone), JoeVenuto (marimba), JackJennings / AirtoMoreira (percussion) 熟練したベテランが大オーケストラをバックに肩の力を抜いて��々と吹いた傑作！ハービー・ハンコックやロン・カーター、J.J.ジョンソンの名もある。いつまでも聴き飽きない。 イージー・リスニング・ジャズと言われようとも、最高のセンスの音楽。参加しているミュージシャンの質の高さは、ポピュラーの世界では求める限り最高水準との評。 1968年10月10,16,24日,11月5,20日,12月26日、Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs録音、プロデューサー #CreedTaylor、A&M/ #CTIRecords レーベル。 1968年当時、時代はジャズではない。ビートルズのホワイト・アルバムから"Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da"を収録。ビートルズの新作を聴いたポール・デズモンドが気に入ってすぐに吹き込んだと。CTIレーベルがいかに、ビートルズを意識していたかが解る。やはリ、ジャズの方から見ると、ビートルズやロックの影響は大きな脅威、CTIが新しい方向を向いていたとも。 #DonSebesky (arranger), #RobertHonablue (engineer) の編曲も素晴らしく、当時発売された作品は、今聴いてもまったく古さを感じさせない。ドン・セベスキーの作曲による"Olibidar"などは、ポール・デズモンドのリリカルなセンスにぴったりの曲。 "枯葉"はカバーの写真のように、清涼感を感じさせるアレンジ。本作の雰囲気とピッタリ重なる。CTIのカバー・デザインは音楽のイメージをとても大事にする。 何より、疲れた時や落ち込んでいる時に聴いても、コルトレーンの音楽のように重たい気持ちにならないところがいい。 RCAからA&Mに移籍、名プロデューサーのクリード・テイラーと何枚ものアルバムを残しているが、ベストは本作との評価もある位のハイ・クオリティー！ #jazz #fuzey #jazzrecords #ジャズ #vinyl #jazzvinyl #vinylcollection #jazzalbum #スイングジャーナル #オーディオ #レコード

[blewnotes]

Jazziversaries June 8th

 Bill Watrous (trombone) 1939 :: Many happy returns to Bill Watrous. William Russell Watrous III  is a jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known by casual fans of jazz music for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love," which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name. A self-described "bop-oriented" player, he is well known among fellow trombonists as a master technician and for his mellifluous sound.

Watrous' career blossomed in the 1960s. He played and recorded with many jazz luminaries, including Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Quincy Jones, Johnny Richards, and fellow trombonist Kai Winding. He also played in the house band on the Merv Griffin Show from 1965 - 1968.

In 1971, he played with the jazz fusion group Ten Wheel Drive. Also in the 1970s, Watrous formed his own band, "The Manhattan Wildlife Refuge Big Band," which recorded two albums for Columbia Records. The band was later renamed "Refuge West" when Watrous relocated to southern California.

He has continued to work actively since the 1980s as a band leader, studio musician, and performer at various jazz clubs. In 1983, Watrous collaborated with Alan Raph to publish Trombonisms, an instructional manual covering various performance techniques for the trombone. He has recorded as a solo artist, band leader and in various small ensembles on a number of different labels. These recordings include a Japanese Import album in 2001, containing material recorded in 1984, with Carl Fontana, whom Watrous has cited as his favorite trombonist.

Boz Scaggs (guitar) 1944 :: Happy birthday to William Royce "Boz" Scaggs. Boz  is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1960s as a guitarist and sometimes lead singer with the Steve Miller Band and in the 1970s with several solo Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.

In 1976, using session musicians who would later form Toto, he recorded Silk Degrees. The album reached #2 on the US Billboard 200, and #1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles: "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle", and "What Can I Say", as well as the MOR standard "We're All Alone," later recorded by Rita Coolidge and Frankie Valli. "Lowdown" sold over one million copies in the US.

A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album in 1977 Down Two Then Left did not sell as well as Silk Degrees had.

Scaggs continued to record and tour sporadically throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and for a time was semi-retired from the music industry. He opened the San Francisco nightclub, Slim's, in 1988, and remains a co-owner as of 2008.

After Other Roads, Scaggs took another hiatus and then came back with Some Change in 1994. He released Come On Home, an album of blues, and My Time, an anthology in the late 1990s. He garnered good reviews with Dig although the CD, which was released on September 11, 2001, was lost in the post-9/11 melée. In May 2003, Scaggs released But Beautiful, a collection of jazz standards that debuted at #1 on the jazz chart. In 2008 he released Speak Low, which he described in the liner notes as "a sort of progressive, experimental effort ... along the lines of some of the ideas that Gil Evans explored."

Billie Pierce (singer) 1907 -1974 :: was an American jazz pianist and singer.

She was born in Marianna, Florida, United States one of seven piano-playing sisters (including Ida Goodson), born to a mother and father who both themselves played piano. Early in the 1920s, Pierce played with Bessie Smith in a theater in Pensacola, Florida, and later in the decade played in the bands of Alphonse Picou, Emile Barnes, and George Lewis. In the 1930s she played at the Blue Jay Club, where she met trumpeter De De Pierce; the two fell in love, married, and co-led their own ensemble, which served as the house band at Luthjen's Dance Hall in the 1950s. She played in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and was a regular on the New Orleans jazz scene in the 1950s through the early 1970s.

Geoff Castle (keyboards) 1949 ::  Many happy returns to UK jazz keyboard player Geoff. He played with National Youth Jazz Orchestra in the late 60s and then in 1970 joined Graham Collier’s band. With Collier he toured and appeared at venues such as the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 1974 Castle became a member of Ian Carr’s Nucleus, recording and touring during which, in addition to performing he also taught and was featured at seminars. He remained with Nucleus into the early 80s, by which time he was an established name on the UK jazz circuit and had also engaged the attention of worldwide audiences. For many years, Castle, playing synthesizer and other keyboard instruments as well as acoustic piano, was a mainstay of Paz,  touring and recording from the mid-70s into the new millennium. Among other musicians with whom Castle has played and sometimes recorded are Neil Ardley, Julian Bahula, George Coleman, Ian Dury, Georgie Fame, Art Farmer, Jimmy Giuffre, John Martyn, James Moody, Brendan Power, and the Morrissey - Mullen band

Julie Tippett (vocal) 1947 :: Birthday wishes to singer Julie Tippett. Julie is an English singer and actress, known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger & The Trinity. Along with The Trinity, she was featured prominently in the 1969 television special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, singing "I'm a Believer" in a soul style with Micky Dolenz. She and Auger had previously worked in Steampacket, with Long John Baldry and Rod Stewart.

"This Wheel's on Fire" reached number five in the United Kingdom in June 1968. With distortion, the imagery of the title and the group's dress and performance, this version came to represent the psychedelic era in British music. Driscoll recorded the song again in the early 90s with Adrian Edmondson as the theme to the BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, whose main characters are throwbacks to that era.

Since the 1970s Driscoll has concentrated on experimental vocal music, married jazz musician Keith Tippett and collaborated with him. Her name is now 'Julie Tippetts', thus using the original spelling of her husband's surname. She participated in Keith Tippett's big band Centipede and, in 1974, took part in Robert Wyatt's Theatre Royal Drury Lane concert; released a solo album, Sunset Glow in 1975 and was lead vocalist on Carla Bley's album Tropic Appetites and in John Wolf Brennan's "HeXtet".

Later in the 1970s she toured with her own band, and recorded and performed as one of the vocal quartet 'Voice', with Maggie Nichols, Phil Minton and Brian Eley.

In the early eighties, Julie Tippets was a guest vocalist on an early single by pop-jazz band Working Week, "Storm of Light", which brought them the attention of wider audience - it was this single that marked the bands arrival and a brief infatuation of British and European public with stylish pop incorporating strong jazz flavor, thus marking Julie Tippet, nee Driscoll, as a vocalist for every age.

Kenny Clare (drums) 1929-1984  :: was an English jazz drummer. He should not be confused with Kenny Clarke, whose band he played in.

Clare played with Oscar Rabin on English radio in his early 20s. Following this he played with Jack Parnell and then with Johnny Dankworth for an extended period in the 1950s and early 1960s. In the latter decade he played with Ted Heath and Ronnie Stephenson, and played in the studios as a member of Sounds Orchestral. He played drums for the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band in 1963-66 when Clarke was unavailable. But from 1967 through 1971 (when the band folded) Clare was a regular paired with Clarke in what became a two-drummer band for performances, concerts, and at least 15 recordings issued by various labels. He also accompanied singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, and Cleo Laine. On December 5, 1971 he did a concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall with fellow drummers Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson.

I say, there's a little mini British invasion going on here today! What ho, chaps!

Happy birthday to all you June 6th Jazzlings in Tumblr land and beyond! You should know the rules by now, party hard and have a great day, make it the dawn of an awesome year to come!

Thanks as always to AAJ & JBC for the guidance

Respect to the YouTube Massive for the uploads!

High Fives to all the folks in the Inspiration Crew, thanks for followiing and being, Inspiring!

And thanks to you for passin' thru'

Move! with Giant Steps

Walk Tall,

Speak low,

Go placidly

Geo

[jettajimm]

Happy Birthday @ChadWackermanOfficial! 🎂🎈🎁🎊🎉 Have a rockin' one! 🎼 #ChadWackerman #ChadWackermanTrio #FrankZappa #AndySummers #AllanHoldsworth #MenAtWork #JoeSample #JohnPatitucci #JamesTaylor #SteveVai #EdMann #AlbertLee #DweezilZappa #BillWatrous #ColinHay #StevenWilson #BarbaraStreisand #RamsHeadOnStage #Lumix #TZ5 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-LjuB0gEfo/?igshid=lnn0ygu7uu2z

[profstrych9]

Chick Corea • The Leprechaun (Polydor, 1976) #chickcorea #stevegadd #eddiegomez #anthonyjackson #joefarrell #billwatrous #wayneandre #dannycahn #bobmillikan #johngatchell #mysonicarchive #jazzlegends #nowspinning #vinyligclub #vinyligcommunity #vinyljunkie (at Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcSW26sZQp/?igshid=c5le7bub5sfc

[andrewsmusic]

Bill Watrous - Vincent Bach (Down Beat - Dec 16th 1976) #downbeatmagazine #jazzinprint #jazz #jazzmusic #jazzmusician #andrewsmusic #vintagemusicadvert #billwatrous #jazztrombone #jazztrombonist #vincentbach #vincentbachtrombone https://www.instagram.com/p/CC9MgtRJbxg/?igshid=xtvslwy6trpj

[andrewsmusic]

Down Beat - Jun 5th 1975 #downbeatmagazine #jazzinprint #jazz #jazzmusic #jazzmusician #andrewsmusic #billwatrous #maynardferguson https://www.instagram.com/p/B_foZRdJNS2/?igshid=tmh1e1g2hogh

[jettajimm]

Happy Birthday @FunkyRick1! 🎂🎈🎁🎊🎉 Have a rockin' one! 🎼 #RickLatham #BBKing #QuincyJones #NealSchon #PatTravers #BillWatrous #LarryCarlton #PaulSmith #HowardRoberts #DavidFriedman #DavidSamuels #RitaMoreno #BenVereen #MarthaReeves #ReddFoxx #PeteBarbutti #DrumWorkshop #IstanbulMehmetCymbals #EvansDrumheads #PromarkDrumsticks #AKGMicrophones #NAMM2019 #Lumix #GX7 https://www.instagram.com/p/B3LE0o_gqUx/?igshid=a833mnj2h185

[jettajimm]

Happy Birthday Chad Wackerman! 🎂🎈🎁🎊🎉🎼 Have a rockin' one! 😉 #ChadWackermanTrio #FrankZappa #AndySummers #AllanHoldsworth #MenAtWork #JoeSample #JohnPatitucci #JamesTaylor #SteveVai #EdMann #AlbertLee #DweezilZappa #BillWatrous #ColinHay #StevenWilson #BarbaraStreisand (at Rams Head On Stage) https://www.instagram.com/p/BveezadAGHI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l052zhf3b47y