{"id":8946,"date":"2017-12-30T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8946"},"modified":"2017-12-30T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T01:23:31","slug":"recent-listening-and-viewing-ernie-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/12\/recent-listening-and-viewing-ernie-watts\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Listening And Viewing: Ernie Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ernie Watts<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2Ef3Crt\" target=\"&quot;_blank:\"><em>Wheel Of Time<\/em><\/a> (Flying Dolphin)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/518GeLyB-mL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"201\" \/>From his years with Buddy Rich in the 1960s through his long membership in the late bassist Charlie Haden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Quartet West and for years since, the tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts has had a noteworthy career. One of his longest associations has been with his European quartet and its rhythm section of pianist Christof Saenger, bassist Rudi Engel and drummer Heinrich Koebberling. Their <em> Wheel Of Time<\/em> has compositions by each of the quartet members plus Joe Henderson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz standard \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inner Urge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Canadian pianist Adrean Farrugia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s calypsoish \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Goose Dance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to catch up with this one. It has been on the CD player for days. Shortly after the album was released last year, Watts and the quartet appeared at the Jimmy Glass Jazz Bar in Valencia. Spain. Drummer Tobias Schirmer subbed for Koebberling. Among the pieces they played from the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s repertoire was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Goose Dance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In the video, &#8221;\u00a0the introduction is by Watts.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/13-lltriUN0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Watts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dedication of <em>Wheel Of Time&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>includes remembrance of Haden (1937-2014) with the words, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6whose years of beautiful music I still hear.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernie Watts, Wheel Of Time (Flying Dolphin) From his years with Buddy Rich in the 1960s through his long membership in the late bassist Charlie Haden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Quartet West and for years since, the tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts has had a noteworthy career. One of his longest associations has been with his European quartet and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}