Eric Watson
b. 5 July 1955, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA. Watson began playing piano as a small child but first played rock in various parts of his home state. He then studied classical music at Oberlin College, Ohio, before moving to France. There, he worked in various contexts, including classical, jazz, and as an accompanist with a dance troupe. For the next few years he played in France, the USA and Central America, along the way establishing what would become a long-term musical relationship with John Lindberg. Although he has continued to play in his homeland, he gradually extended his roots in France. Watson has built his career in a manner that suggests much greater affinity with the classical tradition of European music than that in which jazz is rooted. Classically trained, he has found ways to bridge the gap between written and improvised music, bringing to his work a strong sense of structure while retaining glimpses of spontaneity.
Usually working in small groups, up to quartet, he is an intense, brooding pianist, displaying to the discerning considerable depths of emotion. Among the musicians with whom he has collaborated are Ray Anderson, Daniel Humair, Steve Lacy (on several occasions including 1988’s The Amiens Concert), Lindberg (in duo), Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Motian, and Linda Sharrock. Perhaps inevitably, given the level of audience commitment his work demands, many critics found his more accessible 1998 trio album with Mark Dresser and Ed Thigpen, Silent Hearts, the best of his relatively short discography. Although very much his own man, some auditors, in seeking touchstones, have suggested stylistic links with pianists as varied as Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Rowles, and Mal Waldron. Closer listening suggests that none of these is a valid progenitor, but that by approaching his music in his highly idiosyncratic fashion, Watson has excavated a new dark mine of inspiration.
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Palimpseste
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por hat ART CD em 27/01/2015
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Sketches of solitude
Jazz - Lançado por Night Bird Backstage em 01/01/2002
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Listen To The Night
Jazz - Lançado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France em 01/01/2007
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Memories Of Paris
Jazz - Lançado por Outnote Records em 21/10/2010
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Spirit of Mingus
Jazz - Lançado por Freelance Records em 01/01/1992
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Full Metal Quartet (Instrumental)
Jazz - Lançado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France em 01/01/2000
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Silent Hearts
Jazz - Lançado por Sunnyside em 01/01/2001
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Jaded Angels
Jazz - Lançado por ACT Music em 27/10/2006
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Conspiracy (Instrumental)
Eric Watson, Ed Schuller, Paul Motian
Jazz - Lançado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France em 01/01/2002
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Out of Print
Jazz - Lançado por Outnote Records em 29/09/2011
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Love's Scales
Jazz - Lançado por Eric Watson em 01/01/2007
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Dodging Bullets
John Lindberg, Eric Watson, Albert Mangelsdorff
Jazz - Lançado por Black Saint em 28/12/1992
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Charms of Nanyang I
Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Tsung Yeh
World - Lançado por SCO em 01/08/2017
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