Monty Waters

Monty Waters ( born April 14, 1938 in Modesto, California, † 23 December 2008 in Munich ) was an American saxophonist of modern jazz.

Life and work

Waters received his first musical education by his aunt and first played in the church. After his education at college he was a member of Rhythm & Blues bands. In the late 1950s he was with musicians such as BB King, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Little Richard and James Brown on tour. In San Francisco, he played with King Pleasure and initiated in the early 1960s a "Late Night Session " Club Bop City. There he came into contact with musicians such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon Red Garland or who visited this club after their concerts. In addition, with Pharoah Sanders, Dewey Redman and Donald Garrett, he founded a big band. In 1969 he moved to New York and went with Jon Hendricks on a concert tour. During the 1970s, he was a co-founder of the " loft jazz " and played with musicians such as Sam Rivers, Joe Lee Wilson and Rashied Ali, but also with Charli Persip, Billy Higgins, Woody Shaw and Cedar Walton. Like many other jazz musicians he migrated in the 1980s to Paris, where he worked with Chet Baker, Pharoah Sanders and Johnny Griffin. With Mal Waldron and Marty Cook, he came to Munich, where he lived for many years in the residential community of embryo and from where to Spain, Italy, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Israel and Russia, he (including Siberia ) toured. Waters continued to work with musicians such as Götz Tangerding or Joe Malinga and led his own bands.

Waters, who worked in his final years as a singer, went on with both embryo and in duet with guitarist Titus forest rock.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Hot House. Live in Paris. Duc de Lombards. Vol 1 (with Larry Porter, Stafford James, Ronnie Burrage )
  • New York Calling. Live in Paris. Vol 2 (with Larry Porter, Stafford James, Ronnie Burrage, Tom Nicholas )
  • Jazzoetry ( with Paulo Cardoso and Tom Nicholas )
  • Monty Waters & L' ubo Samo Quintet: Moonlight in Slovakia
  • Monty Waters & Titus forest rock: Favourite Things
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