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Bobby Watson (Robert Michael Watson Jr.) was born on 23 August, 1953 in Lawrence, Kansas, U.S., is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator. Discover Bobby Watson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Robert Michael Watson Jr.
Occupation Musician, composer, educator
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 23 August 1953
Birthday 23 August
Birthplace Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1929

Watson also led a group known as the High Court of Swing (a tribute to the music of Johnny Hodges), the sixteen-piece Tailor-Made Big Band, and is a founding member of the 29th Street Saxophone Quartet, an all-horn, four-piece group with alto saxophonist Ed Jackson, tenor saxophonist Rich Rothenberg, and baritone saxophonist Jim Hartog.

With the 29th Street Saxophone Quartet

With Art Blakey

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1953

Robert Michael Watson Jr. (born August 23, 1953), known professionally as Bobby Watson, is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator.

Watson was born in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas.

He had four brothers.

Watson credits his father as one of his greatest inspirations.

His father played saxophone in addition to being a pilot and working for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, for his father's work with the FAA.

While Watson was in junior high school there, a jazz history class he took helped him realize he was a jazz musician.

He attended the University of Miami, at the same time as Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, and Bruce Hornsby.

1975

He graduated in 1975, moved to New York City, and became music director for the Jazz Messengers from 1977 to 1981.

After leaving the band, he was productive as a session musician, recording with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Max Roach, Joe Williams, Dianne Reeves, Lou Rawls, Betty Carter, and Carmen Lundy.

1980

He formed the band Bobby Watson & Horizon with bassist Curtis Lundy and drummer Victor Lewis, with whom he played throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

1985

A resident of New York for most of his professional life, he served as a member of the adjunct faculty and taught saxophone privately at William Paterson University from 1985 to 1986 and the Manhattan School of Music from 1996 to 1999.

He is involved with the Thelonious Monk Institute's annual Jazz in America high school outreach program.

1991

In 1991, they released the album Post Motown Bop on Blue Note Records, with John Fordham in Q Magazine describing it as "gleaming, glossy bebop".

1993

Watson also composed a song for the soundtrack to the movie A Bronx Tale (1993).

2000

In 2000, he was approached to return to his native midwestern surroundings on the Kansas-Missouri border.

Watson was selected as the first William D. and Mary Grant/Missouri, Distinguished Professorship in Jazz Studies.

As the director of jazz studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory of Music, while still managing a worldwide performing schedule, Watson's ensembles at UMKC have received several awards.

2011

In 2011, Watson was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame.

2013

In 2013, he received the Benny Golson Jazz Master Award from Howard University.

2014

On his 61st birthday, he was one of two living inductees into the American Jazz Walk of Fame in its first group of inductees in 2014.

2019

Watson spent the 2019-2020 academic year as a Global Jazz Ambassador for UMKC.

2020

He retired from UMKC in 2020 and remains a Kansas City resident as he continues to tour internationally as a musician.