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04-14-2005, 09:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Tewksbury,Mass. | | | Doug Watkins
Anyone who likes PC [His cousin] and that 50's era bop playing should check out this guy.Nice intonation and that big Gut Sound.
Picked up another Donald Byrd CD this week and it's Live in Paris. Nice concert w. Bobby Jasper,Walter Davis Jr., and Art Taylor.
Watkins gets featured alot and there is a nice blues w. Doug and Bobby Jasper on flute doing the melody in unison.The concert is from Oct of 1958 and the recording is very good.A nice study of a very consistant player who died way to young !!
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04-14-2005, 10:58 PM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Bloomington, IN | | | I'll second that. I love his playing, and I always thought that had he not died so young we would talk about him the way we do PC and Sam Jones. |
04-15-2005, 05:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | I love Dougs feel!!
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04-15-2005, 05:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Amen, brothers...he was an early influence for me. Probably on some Yusef Lateef albums. |
04-15-2005, 06:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Brooklyn | | | Mingus loved him too
You should hear him on Mingus' "Oh Yeah", he sounds great!
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04-15-2005, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Alexi David You should hear him on Mingus' "Oh Yeah", he sounds great! | Alexi.....great move using that quote from that idiot on free playing!!!
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04-15-2005, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Alexi.....great move using that quote from that idiot on free playing!!! | It was one of my favorite TB moments. That and the thread that was titled "My Pops is Hard". 
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04-15-2005, 08:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Tewksbury,Mass. | | | A few Album/Cd suggestions...
Of course Doug worked w. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and he is on their first recordings including Horace Silvers and the Jazz Messengers[Blue note 1518]
The live at the Cafe Bohemia Vol.1 and 2 are classics included now on Cd w. extra tracks and Doug is featured on 'Whats New'.[Blue Notes 1507,1508]
I have him on some unissued stuff w. Red Garland on Prestige called "Rediscovered Masters".They play 'Blues in the Closet' and 'Mr.Wonderfull"
An old Boston label called Transition put out a disc under Dougs name called 'Watkins at Large' w. Hank Mobley,Donald Byrd,Kenny Burrell,Duke Jordon, and Art Taylor.Of course there is more such as the many Pepper Adams/Donald Byrd sides. |
04-15-2005, 08:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Alexi David It was one of my favorite TB moments. That and the thread that was titled "My Pops is Hard". |
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04-15-2005, 09:35 AM
| | | | doug+sonny= one of my favorite recipes ! |
05-01-2005, 10:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC, Astoria | | | If you haven't already...
...please do check him out on Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Collossus". If you haven't heard that album, I am extremely jealous of you. |
05-15-2010, 01:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | What is it about Doug Watkins sound that makes it so distinct? I can always pick him out of a recording. I don't think it's his playing, but his sound. If I describe it, it would sound like a lot of other players from that era, yet somehow, the timbre of his note is like a fingerprint.
Anyone else feel this way?
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05-15-2010, 11:49 PM
| | | Great session....googled Hank Mobley and done did the cut and paste. Hank's Tune! 
Donald Byrd - Byrd's Eye View (Transition TRLP 4)
Donald Byrd (tp) Joe Gordon (tp -3,4) Hank Mobley (ts) Horace Silver (p) Doug Watkins (b) Art Blakey (d)
Cambridge, MA, December 2, 1955
1. Everything Happens To Me
2. Hank's Other Tune (Late Show)
3. Doug's Blues
4. Hank's Tune
** also issued on Transition (J) LNJ 70104, (J) GXF 3123. |
06-02-2010, 09:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wheeling WV / Pittsburgh PA | | | For me, his sound on Blue 7 is the ultimate. The tone I wish I had. John |
10-15-2010, 04:43 PM
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10-16-2010, 11:39 AM
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Not alot there, but can you imagine the sound he got in the lower register? (my computer didn't do well on those clips).
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10-16-2010, 08:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | | What a sound he had, consistently. Truly one of the great players. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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