Bobby Watson

Bobby Watson – Love Remains (Remastered 2024) (1986/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:28 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Red records

Love Remains is an album by saxophonist Robert Watson which was recorded in 1986 and released on the Italian Red label.

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Bobby Watson – Love Remains (Remastered 2024) (2024) [24Bit-48kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:45:28 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Bobby Watson – Appointment in Milano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:26 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Red records

Robert “Bobby” Watson, who was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, grew up to become a jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and education of formidable talent and acclaim. He got his degree from the University of Miami before becoming a member (and later the musical director) of legendary drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He remained an invaluable member for four years, from 1977 until 1981.

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Bobby Watson – Appointment in Milano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:43:26 minutes | 522 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Bobby Watson – Back Home in Kansas City (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:48 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions

Alto saxophone great Bobby Watson records “Back Home in Kansas City” with trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, bassist Curtis Lundy and drummer Victor Jones featuring special guest vocalist Carmen Lundy on “Our Love Remains.”
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Bobby Watson – Made in America (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:34 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions

JAZZ GREAT BOBBY WATSONcelebrates some of the vital but less well-known contributions of African-Americans on Made in America, his first recording on Smoke Sessions Records. Saxophonist and composer Watson does his part to call attention to black pioneers in a variety of fields, from politics to pop culture, science to sports. These compositions are inspired by a few names that should be familiar to jazz fans&emdash;Sammy Davis, Jr., and Grant Green&emdash;but also by more obscure historic figures such as Wendell Pruitt, Butterfly McQueen, Major Taylor, Madam C.J. Walker, Isaac Murphy, Bass Reeves, and Dr. Mark Dean. Watson explains, “This project has been a history lesson for me and I hope it will be a history lesson for the listeners.”
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Bobby Watson – Keepin’ It Real (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:34 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions

As the great Bobby Watson embarks on a new chapter in his storied career, his new album “Keepin’ It Real” arrives as a reminder of the authenticity that has characterized his music on every step of that journey. While Watson won the JazzTimes critic’s poll as the top alto saxophonist in 2019, he also retired from a 20+ year career in academia giving him the best opportunity in many years to focus exclusively on his own music.”Keepin’ It Real” also debuts a new incarnation of his band Horizon featuring trumpeters Josh Evans and Giveton Gelin, bassist Curtis Lundy, pianist Victor Gould and drummer Victor Jones now called New Horizon. The original Horizon was an outlet for Watson’s music from the late 80s well into the 21st century. After a short tour with the band earlier this year, Watson realized that a reinvention was in order, in keeping with his mentor Art Blakey’s constant retooling of the Jazz Messengers. “The original Horizon has run its course,” Watson concludes. “Art Blakey also moved on while everybody was still young and healthy, and everybody in that band has grown into their own thing. That’s why I wanted to start fresh, with new music, new personnel, fresh blood, and new energy.”Most importantly, the new album is a vital continuation of the supple hard-bop sound that Watson has practiced throughout the decades, laced with the profound influences of gospel and R&B and now infused with the renewed vigor of hungry young collaborators. Keepin’ It Real, Watson explains, is a mantra that he strives to exemplify every time he lifts his alto to his lips.
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