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Bobby Watson is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator. He is best known for his work with the band Horizon, which he co-founded in 1977. He has also released several solo albums and has collaborated with a variety of artists, including Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, and Chick Corea. Watson was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and began playing saxophone at the age of nine. He attended the University of Miami, where he studied with saxophonist Gary Campbell and composer Pat Metheny. After graduating in 1975, he moved to New York City and began performing with a variety of jazz musicians, including Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, and Woody Shaw. In 1977, Watson co-founded the band Horizon with pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Buster Williams, and drummer Al Foster. The band released several albums and toured extensively throughout the 1980s. Watson also released several solo albums during this time, including The Gates of Horizon (1982) and Present Tense (1985). In the 1990s, Watson began teaching at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he is currently the director of jazz studies. He has also released several albums as a leader, including Tailor Made (1995), Post-Motown Bop (1998), and Horizon Reassembled (2005). Watson has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and a Grammy nomination in 2006. He has also been inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame and the American Jazz Hall of Fame.

Popular As Robert Michael Watson Jr.
Occupation Musician, composer, educator
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 23 August, 1953
Birthday 23 August
Birthplace Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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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.

1993

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

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.

1975

Watson was born in Lawrence, Kansas and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. He attended the University of Miami at the same time as Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, and Bruce Hornsby. 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. He formed the band Bobby Watson & Horizon with bassist Curtis Lundy and drummer Victor Lewis, with whom he played throughout the 1980s and '90s.

1953

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