• During years, North American readers of Hot Jazz or Jazz Magazine were inhabited by a frustration, in any case it was our case, which has a proper name: Eric Watson . American pianist of his condition, Parisian by adoption for at least 25 years. Still, every new release of Mr. Watson, on label Owl, was the object of attentive critics always combining with excellence. But alas, three times alas, only in passing old France that we could buy his albums. Frozen side of the Atlantic, the distribution of beads was the Watson very definition of humbug canned. American size, the subject canned. • After this introduction somewhat splenetic, we agree, you're told What's what joy jump legs and eyes closed in the territory of jubilation. That is, since he is under contract with Out Note Records, a label founded by French Jean-Jacques Pussiau who founded Owl, Watson is finally available as best represented. Still, he called his last little Memories of Paris just made the crossing. • As
album Kenny Werner, New York Love Songs on same label, Watson is only of compositions of Watson. And like Werner Watson this is great art. Taking it in the sense most captivating of the term. It's great jazz with reminiscences, to speak chicos here Satie, Fauré there or Debussy. This means that everything is successful, or even laziness, and while sensitivity is not an ounce of sentimentality. Clearly, Watson epitomizes the piano solo. Hat! Thousand times! Here Smoking Dog Cat And The Sinner
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