Jazz Birthday: Ernie Watts (1945)

Ernie Watts is a highly-accomplished jazz saxophonist who plays jazz and r & b. “No Doubt About It” is an example. One of his comments expresses a spiritual element in jazz that a good many jazz musicians acknowledge:

“I see music as the common bond having potential to bring all people together in peace and harmony.  All things in the physical world have vibration; the music I choose to play is the energy vibration that touches a common bond in people.  I believe that music is God singing through me, an energy to be used for good.”

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2:51 am on October 23, 2012