国籍：美国 出生地：美国弗吉尼亚州 职业：演奏家 生日：1945 年 10 月 23 日 简介：Because he was involved in many commercial recording projects from the mid-70s through the early 80s and on an occasional basis ever since, some observers wrote Ernie Watts off prematurely as a pop/R&B tenorman. Actually, Watts main hero has always been John Coltrane, and his later work reveals him to be an intense and masterful jazz improviser who has developed his own sheets-of-sound approach along with a distinctive and soulful sound. After attending Berklee, he had an important stint with Buddy Richs big band (1966-1968) before moving to Los Angeles. Watts worked in the big bands of Oliver Nelson and Gerald Wilson, recorded with Jean-Luc Ponty in 1969, and became a staff musician for NBC, performing with the Tonight Show Band on a regular basis. His own records of the 1970s and early 80s were generally pop-ish (1982s Chariots of Fire was a big seller), and Watts played frequently with Lee Ritenour and Stanley Clarke, in addition to recording with Cannonball Adderley (one of his idols) in 1972. However, Ernie Watts work became much more interesting from a jazz standpoint starting in the mid-80s when he joined Charlie Hadens Quartet West and started recording no-nonsense quartet dates for JVC. Ernie Watts has developed into one of the most powerful of tenormen with complete control over his horn and the ability to bring intensity and passion (plus taste) to any musical situation. 从艺历程：沃茨出生于弗吉尼亚州诺福克，13 岁开始演奏萨克斯管。在西切斯特大学短暂学习后，他凭借《Down Beat》杂志的奖学金进入伯克利音乐学院学习。20世纪 60 年代末，他与巴迪·里奇一起巡回演出，担任中音萨克斯管演奏员，并随奥利弗·纳尔逊的乐队 随美国国务院访问非洲。 沃茨在Doc Severinsen的《今夜秀》乐队中演奏中音萨克斯长达 20 年。20 世纪 70 年代，他是马文·盖伊在摩城唱片公司发行的多张专辑的特邀独奏者，在洛杉矶担任录音室音乐家的 25 年中，他还在许多其他流行音乐和 R&B 音乐会中担任独奏者。作为一名乐器演奏者，他曾两次获得格莱美奖。 沃茨于 1981 年加入滚石乐队美国巡演第五场的伴奏阵容，并一直陪伴乐队直到巡演结束。在整个巡演期间，沃茨对滚石乐队现场表演的影响显著增加，滚石乐队在《Just My Imagination》和《Let Me Go 》等曲目上的即兴演奏时间越来越长。沃茨在巡演期间录制的现场专辑《 Still Life》中也有出镜。 20 世纪 80 年代中期，沃茨决定重新投身爵士乐。他与德国吉他手兼作曲家托尔斯滕·德·温克尔、鼓手史蒂夫·史密斯和键盘手汤姆·科斯特一起录制唱片并巡回演出。他被邀请加入查理·哈登的四重奏西部乐队；一天晚上，哈登听了沃茨演奏米歇尔·科隆比尔的《夜鸟》，两人在后台见面。 沃茨还为电影《油脂》和《紫色》创作了配乐，还为电视剧《夜间法庭》创作了主题曲。1982 年，他演唱的《烈火战车》在辛辛那提的 WKRP第四季剧集《维纳斯的创造》中出现。他出现在Windows XP的其中一个样本曲目 《Highway Blues》中，该曲目由 New Stories 演唱。 1986 年，沃茨与查理·哈登和保罗·韦蒂科一起随帕特·梅塞尼特别四重奏组前往南美，在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯的 Shams 演出。 2008 年，他的专辑《Analog Man》赢得了独立音乐奖最佳爵士专辑奖。他参与了 Kurt Elling 的专辑《Dedicated to You》的演唱，该专辑获得了 2011 年格莱美最佳爵士声乐专辑奖。