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Charlie Watts - If It Ain't Got That Swing
1 Elvin Suite Part 1
2 Elvin Suite Part
3 Faction
4 I Should Care
5 You Can't Always Get What You Want
6 Paint It Black
7 Molasses
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Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts returns to his love of jazz for a live album of big band classics, originals and Rolling Stones covers. Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band has been released on Impulse! / Verve. Before the Rolling Stones were a known entity in the early 1960s, Charlie Watts had a day job that took him to Denmark. While he was there, he entrenched himself in the jazz and blues scene, sitting in with bands big and small, keeping his passion for music alive while he earned his living. Fast-forward fifty years to 2010: Charlie Watts got together with the Danish Radio Big Band and rehearsed for four days, presenting a concert at the newly opened Concert Hall of Denmark in Copenhagen that was broadcast on Danish National Radio.

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    Posted At: January 17, 2023 12:00 AM
    yahoo - Richard Havers writes…..In 1961, twenty-year-old Charles Robert Watts was working as a full-time graphic designer and a part-time drummer. He had left art school in July 1960, and after working as a tea boy in an advertising agency he got his chance to work as a designer. In mid-1961 he was also playing drums twice a week in a coffee bar, but by September he was playing with a band at the Troubadour...
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  • Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones remembers Charlie Watts / JazzTimes
    Posted At: February 11, 2022 12:00 AM
    Rolling Stones’ bassist Darryl Jones honors his former bandmate (6/2/41 – 8/24/21). Jones has been with the Stones since 1993. He has also performed and recorded with Miles Davis, Sting, Steps Ahead, Patti LaBelle, and Philip Bailey, among others. He remembers Charlie Watts, as told to JazzTimes Lee Mergner.Read the piece……The music of the Rolling Stones wasn’t a big part of our household growing up in Chic...
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  • When Charlie Watts finally made It to New York City / The New York Times
    Posted At: August 30, 2021 12:00 AM

    While his bandmates hit the Apollo, the reserved, jazz-loving drummer for the Stones could be found at Birdland. The Rolling Stones visit New York for the first time in 1964. From left: Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts.  The New York Times Michiko Kakutani writes.....In 1960, while working as an artist and graphic designer, and some years before the Roll...
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  • Charlie Watts meets The Danish Radio Big Band - LIVE, featured on Voice of America's JAZZ AMERICA
    Posted At: August 14, 2017 12:00 AM

    Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts returns to his love of jazz for a live album of big band classics, originals and Rolling Stones covers on Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band (Impulse! / Verve). Before the Rolling Stones were a known entity in the early 1960s, Charlie Watts had a day job that took him to Denmark. While he was there, he entrenched himself in the jazz and blues scene, sitting...
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  • Charlie Watts meets The Danish Radio Big Band - LIVE / Downbeat review
    Posted At: June 28, 2017 12:00 AM

    Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts returns to his love of jazz for a live album of big band classics, originals and Rolling Stones covers on Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band, on Impulse! / Verve. Before the Rolling Stones were a known entity in the early 1960s, Charlie Watts had a day job that took him to Denmark. While he was there, he entrenched himself in the jazz and blues scene, sitti...
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  • Charlie Watts meets The Danish Radio Big Band LIVE - In A Blue Mood review
    Posted At: June 16, 2017 12:00 AM

    Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts always has a love of jazz and his Tentet's live recording at the famed London club, Ronnie Scott's is just one instance of this. In 2010 he spent several days with the Danish Radio Big Band and presented a concert at the then newly opened Concert Hall of Denmark in Copenhagen that was broadcast on Danish National Radio and now has been made available on CD. Th...
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  • Charlie Watts meets The Danish Radio Big Band LIVE - Jazz Views review
    Posted At: May 10, 2017 12:00 AM

    The Danish Radio Big Band  that was established in 1964 has had a major presence in the European jazz scene for many years and has worked under the direction of such luminaries as Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer and Palle Mikkleborg. Based in Copenhagen the band are always in demand with their wide ranging repertoire and are due very soon to give concerts as diverse as an Ella Fitzgerald tribut...
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  • Strong outing on Charlie Watts meets The Danish Radio Big Band / Jazz Weekly
    Posted At: April 24, 2017 12:00 AM

    Somewhere In time, drummer Charlie Watts got sidetracked from a career of swing and bop to become a member of the world's most famous rock band, The Rolling Stones. Ah! Such are the vagarities of life! Every now and then Watts returns to the first love of his life, and this recording of a 2010 concert at the Danish Radio Concert Hall is his strongest outing yet. The concerts includes a two  ...
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  • Charlie Watts meets The Danish Radio Big Band on Capital Public Radio - New Jazz Releases
    Posted At: April 21, 2017 12:00 AM

    There are some impressive new releases in the jazz world this week. Sound Advice, hosted by Jazz Music Director Gary Vercelli, previews among other things, the new release from Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, "Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band" on Impulse! - Verve.  Although known for his work with The Rolling Stones, Watts has always been an admirer of jazz. He holds lege...
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