A special performance by jazz icon Bobby Watson, presented in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS. Prolific saxophonist, composer, and educator Bobby Watson sits among the pantheon of jazz greats. As a bandleader, Watson has released numerous highly acclaimed albums, including Love Remains, Post-Motown Bop, and Tailor Made. He has played alongside Max Roach, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, John Hicks, and many other jazz pioneers. During his years as musical director for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Watson contributed to fourteen recordings -- more than anyone else in the group's storied thirty-five-year history. Watson brings an all-star band including Wallace Roney Jr., trumpet, Orrin Evans, piano, Essiet Okon Essiet, bass, and Victor Jones, drums.
New York City, NY; NYC