Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Bobby Watson and his 'Gates BBQ Suite' get love from the Wall Street Journal
Posted
by David Hudnall
on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:41 PM
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Back in August, Wayward
reported on local jazz legend Bobby Watson's latest,
The Gates BBQ Suite, a seven-part composition released in September.
We're not the only ones who've taken note of Watson's activities. Last week, the
Wall Street Journal -- you know, the newspaper with the
highest circulation in the country -- wrote a fairly extensive piece on Mr. Watson. Check it out.
The Journal calls the album "an outstanding new big band album," saying it "shows that [Watson] is as much a stylistic heir to the great Benny Carter as he is to such Kansas City forebears as Charlie Parker."
Read the whole thing
here. Hat tip to
Harper, whose ghost still lingers.
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