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Ernie Watts - Diskographie

Ernie Watts Quartet - "Oasis"

Track List:
1. Konbawa
2. Oasis
3. One Day I'll Fly Away
4. Blackbird
5. Palmito
6. Crescent
7. Twilight Waltz
8. Bass Geige
9. You Are There
10. Shaw Nuff

 

A dictionary definition of "Oasis" cites: "something serving as a refuge, relief, or pleasant change from that which is usual, annoying, or difficult."

In our modern world, all three of these last-mentioned can be frequent. For Ernie Watts, music has been an oasis his whole life. One way he immerses himself in this oasis is by using his spirit, his heart, and his deep knowledge of jazz to write music. Another is of course to play his horn, in wordless conversation with other musicians or communing with just his instrument alone in a room (which often produces new music from him.)

This album contains music from many sources; three compositions from Watts, one each from Christof Saenger and Heinrich Koebberling, a bebop classic from Bird and Dizzy, a ballad from Johnny Mandel and Dave Frishberg, another from Joe Sample and Will Jennings. There is a Lennon/McCartney tune, and Ernie's major inspiration John Coltrane has a composition here too-- Trane's music was the Watts entry into the Oasis of Jazz. Whether you need refuge, or simply joy, here is an Oasis for you.

"What comes through is Watts' essential lyricism. There are some players with Ernie Watts' total command of an instrument who focus more on showing their technical prowess than on creating music. They equate showers of notes with saying something. But Watts is always saying something - as musicians put it - through that mastery of his horn. Never in the least tentative, his authority comes through from note one. And he swings like a tidal wave."
- Nat Hentoff

Compositions:
from Bird & Dizzy to Lennon & McCartney, with everything jazz in between; Joe Sample, Johny Mandel, Watts' inspiration John Coltrane, and several pieces from Watts himself. From boundless every to ballads, it's an OASIS

Lineup:
Ernie Watts - tenor saxophone
Christof Saenger - piano
Rudi Engel - acoustic bass
Heinrich Koebberling - drums

 

 

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