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Ken & Harry Watters
Summit Recording Artists / Conn-Selmer Artists
All Watters CDs available at major CD outlets, or directly through Summit Records (www.summitrecords.com).
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RIYEL is Ken Watters' new Haitian / Roots flavored jazz group. Their first CD (as a band) will be released internationally this spring on Summit Records.
Click here for a song sample.
Riyel members include: Yves Abel (bass, co-leader), Andre Atkins (trombone), Ralph Conde (guitars), Kevin Bales / Mushy Widmaer (piano & keyboards), Frantz Timothe' / "Ti Fanfan" (drums), Alix Nozile (congas), Wid Pierre (percussion) & Ken Watters (trumpet, flugelhorn, co-leader).
Ken Watters was recently interviewed by a prominent Haitian jazz site, Karijazz.com.
Click here to read interview.
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Ken & Harry Watters are endorsed by the Conn-Selmer Corporation & play Conn-Selmer / Bach instruments exclusively.
KEN WATTERS DATES
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WATTERS BROTHERS DATES
Luckily, this photo was taken just before Jerry Springer had his thugs in the black shirts beat me up & melt my trumpet down for scrap metal...
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W/ Clay Harper / Ottoman Empire
Opening for Todd Rundgren
Date: April 17
Time: 8PM
Venue: Variety Playhouse
Atlanta, GA
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Guest Soloist w/ Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra
(Featuring guitarist & guest conductor Tom Wolfe; performing selections from the Miles Davis-Gil Evans repertoire)
Date: April 19
Time: TBA
Venue: Moody Concert Hall, University of Alabama Campus
Tuscaloosa, AL
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April 30 - May 15
(out of pocket - on vacation)
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W/ Tom Mitchell & Friends (TBA)
Dates: May 17
Time: TBA
Venue: Bayfront Park, Miami, FL
Miami Kompa Festival
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W/ Tabou Combo
Date: May 24
Time: TBA (festival, so who knows...)
Venue: TBA
BVI Music Festival 2008
Tortola, West Indies
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W/ Ray Reach Quartet
Date: May 25
Time: TBA
Venue: TBA
Birmingham, AL
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W/ Kingsized
Date: May 31
Time: TBA
Venue: Atlanta History Center
Atlanta, GA
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W US Beat
Date: June 2
Time: TBA
Venue: Atlanta Hilton
Atlanta, GA
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W/ Tabou Combo
Date: June 14
Time: 10:00pm
Venue: Hollywood Park Casino
Los Angeles, CA
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W/ Tabou Combo
Date: June 21
Time: TBA
Venue: TBA
Atlanta, GA
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(June 28 / out-of-pocket)
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W/ Tabou Combo
Dates: July 4 - 6
Times: TBA (late)
Venues: TBA
Miami, FL
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W.C. Handy Music Camp / Jazz Clinician / Trumpet Instructor
Dates: July 7 - 10
Times: all day each day (9AM - 5PM or so...)
Venue: University of North Alabama Music Department
Florence, AL
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W/ Tabou Combo
Dates: July 11 - 13
Times: TBA (late)
Venues: TBA
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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W/ Atlanta Beat
Date: July 19
Time: TBA
Venue: Fox Theater
Atlanta, GA
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W.C. Handy Music Festival (featured jazz trumpet performer)
Dates: July 20 - 26
Times: TBA (various times & places each day)
Venues: TBA
Muscle Shoals, Florence, Tuscumbia & Sheffield, AL
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W/ Atlanta Beat
Date: July 21
Time: TBA
Venue: TBA
Columbus, GA
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Tabou's lead singer Shoubou spending a little quality time with a fan in Panama...
W/ Tabou Combo
Dates: August 4
Time: TBA
"August Monday" Celebration
Anguilla, West Indies
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Taken shortly after the Tampa Police Chief requested "Girl From Ipanema" for the 11th time at his weekly Moose Lodge meeting...
Ken Watters Group
Date: August 16
Time: TBA (early evening)
Venue: Von Braun Center North Hall
Huntsville, AL
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W/ Tabou Combo
Dates: August 21 - 26
Times: TBA
Venues: TBA
Haiti
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W/ Atlanta Beat
Date: August 30
Time: TBA
Venue: ATL History Center
Atlanta, GA
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W/ Ray Reach Little Big Band
Date: October 11
Time: 5:30 - 9:30pm
Venue: TBA
Selma, AL
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W/ Ray Reach Little Big Band
Date: October 28
Time: TBA (evening concert)
Venue: TBA
Selma, AL
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calendar is updated often...
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HARRY WATTERS DATES:
| "Power Practicing" with Harry Watters |
| When: Friday March 23, 2007 - 11:30 AM |
Where: Brucker Hall, Ft. Myer, Virginia
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| In association with the 2007 Eastern Trombone Workshop. |
| Soloist with the Heart of Carolina Jazz Orchestra |
| When: Friday March 30, 2007 - 8:00 PM |
Where: Sanford, North Carolina
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| Soloist with the Naples Concert Band |
| When: Wednesday April 4, 2007 - 8:00 PM |
Where: Naples, Florida
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| Soloist with the Georgia Tech Symphonic Band, Dr. Andrea Strauss, Director |
| When: Thursday April 19, 2007 - 8:00 PM |
Where: Robert Ferst Center for the Arts
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| Soloist with the Groveport Symphonic Band and the Worthington Civic Band |
| When: Monday May 7, 2007 - 8:00 PM |
Where: Groveport Madison High School, Groveport, Ohio
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| Soloist with the Ohio State University Jazz Band |
| When: Tuesday May 8, 2007 - 8:00 PM |
Where: Groveport Madison High School
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| Paradise Valley Jazz Party |
| When: Saturday May 26, 2007 - 12:00 PM |
Where: Paradise Valley, Arizona
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| Paradise Valley Jazz Party |
| When: Sunday May 27, 2007 - 10:00 AM |
Where: Paradise Valley, Arizona
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| Guest soloist with the ABC Directors' Bands |
| When: Tuesday June 26, 2007 - 8:00 PM |
Where: Ginger Rogers Theater, Medford, Oregon
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| In association with the American Band College |
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CHECK BACK OFTEN -- MORE TO COME
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Watters Brothers sound samples can be heard by clicking:
MSN Music
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VH1
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Tower Records
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Barnes & Noble
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Yahoo Music
(or most major music retail outlets / search keyword: watters)
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Ken & Harry Watters will release a LIVE CD this year (on Summit Records)... The new CD will feature the Watters Brothers with very special guests. Recording will take place in 2007 at several different halls, including the historic Princess Theater in Decatur, Alabama & UAH Roberts Recital Hall in Huntsville among other carefully selected venues around the southeast.
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Funderhorns is a horn section primarily made up of Wes Funderburk (trombone), Will Scruggs (saxophones) & Ken Watters (trumpet). This newly-formed horn section has already recorded with Natalie Cole, Kelis, Andrew Black & many other icons in the current popular music world.
Funderhorns are the house horn section at D.A.R.P. (Dallas Austin Recording Projects) based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sound samples from Natalie Cole's Leavin' CD (released September 22, 2006 / Verve Records) can be heard by clicking here:
Leavin' / Natalie Cole
The Funderhorns are featured throughout this CD.
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Artwork / cover concepts for all Watters Brothers & Ken Watters Group CDs are by or in collaboration with Pamela Watters.
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BIO INFORMATION...
Trumpeter Ken Watters and trombonist Harry Watters are Summit recording artists and
Conn-Selmer (Bach) Performing Artists. Being trumpet & trombone playing siblings,
Ken & Harry have an onstage rapport that is electrifying to audiences.
Their last three CDs for Summit Records (Brothers, Brothers II & Brothers III) climbed to the top 50 on the US jazz charts where they remained for at least six weeks each - Brothers III for 11 weeks - and are continually receiving airplay across the US, Canada, Australia, Europe & parts of the Far East. Their music has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, NPR's Jazz South program, PRI's Jazz After Hours (hosted by Jim Wilke) & has been used on a feature television documentary by The Freedom Forum (Washington, DC).
Below is a sampling of artists they have performed and/or recorded with (together & individually):
Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Greg Allman, Marc Anthony, Army Blues, Deniece Williams, Kelis, Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings, Al Hirt, Kevin Mahogany, Erich Kunzel, James Moody, Pete Fountain, Philip Harper, Russell Malone, Chris Potter, Arturo Sandoval, Reginald Policard, Carl Fontana, Steve Coleman, Bill Watrous, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Jean Luc Guanel, Bobby "Blue" Bland, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Terry Gibbs, Mundell Lowe, Ravi Coltrane, Mingus Big Band, Toshiko Akiyoshi, The Vanguard Orchestra (Village Vanguard, NYC), Roger Hawkins, Fred Wesley, Roland Vazquez, Harry Connick Jr., Mike Stern, Richie Cole, Tommy Talton, Dave Valentin, Anthony Jackson, Dan Penn, David Liebman, Eartha Kitt, Rick Hall, Peter Bernstein, The Fifth Dimension, Herbie Mann, Petula Clarke, Gregory Hutchinson, Tabou Combo, The Platters, Little Milton,
Marilyn McCoo, Phyllis Diller, Jimmy Hall, Clarence Carter, Russell Malone, Bonnie Bramlett, Billy Swann, Randy Brecker & many more.
All of their CDs are released internationally on Summit Records
& distributed by Allegro Corporation.
Featured on their first CD (Brothers) are pianist Kenny Werner,
bassist Scott Colley & drummer Scott Neumann.
Their second CD (Brothers II) features pianist David Marlow, bassist Roy Yarbrough,
drummer Jay Frederick, guitarist Tom Wolfe & pianist John Miller.
Southern Exposure, the Summit Records debut CD by Ken Watters Group, features David Marlow, Roy Yarbrough, Jay Frederick & special guest saxophonist & Palmetto Recording Artist Joel Frahm.
All Watters' recordings for Summit Records are produced by Southern music legend Johnny Sandlin (Allman Brothers, Widespread Panic, Cher, Marshall Tucker, Dixie Dregs, Colonel Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit, etc) & all Watters CDs have spent time
in the top 50 on the US jazz charts.
Ken & Harry both attended The University of North Texas.
Harry has been a teaching assistant at University of New Orleans (under Ellis
Marsalis), and then, at 24 years old, became the youngest leader to date of the Dukes of Dixieland.
Ken went on to attend Manhattan School of Music and has studied privately with Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Harold Danko, Jack Walrath, Lew Soloff, Harold Lieberman,
Roland Vazquez, Dave LaLama, Rodney Jones & Kenny Wheeler.
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Brothers |
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Brothers III
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Ken and Harry Watters play Conn-Selmer Instruments Exclusively |
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Ken Watters is a SESAC Affiliated Jazz Composer |
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