May 13, 2019
Ernie Watts arrived yesterday in Turkey for a performance at the Zorlu PSM Jazz Festival in Istanbul on May 14, joining his friend pianist Kerem Gorsev on stage. Watts and Gorsev are also slotted to play in Eskisehir on May…
April 13, 2019
Tracy Oliver’s “The First Wives Club,” a BET series based on the film starring Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn licensed Ernie Watts’ recording of the Duke Ellington classic “In A Sentimental Mood” for an episode in the upcoming…
April 5, 2019
Bates Meyer is handling the music clearance and licensing for the documentary “Chinatown Rising,” the opening film for CAAMFEST in San Francisco next month. Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco…
March 4, 2019
Ted Hawkins’ acclaimed recording “The Next Hundred Years” originally produced by Tony Berg for Geffen Records has been released on 200 Gram vinyl by Acoustic Sounds. This new 33-1/3 audiophile reissue has drawn out Hawkins' soulful and gritty voice, embracing…
February 11, 2019
Diane Schuur performs at the Winter International Arts Festival in Sochi, Russia with her quartet on Feb. 17. The jazz singer then takes the stage at the International House of Music in Moscow on Feb. 18. Schuur heads back to…
February 8, 2019
Bates Meyer did the copyright research for the upcoming release by Delta bluesman Leo Bud Welch, due out on the Easy Eye record label created by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. “The Angels in Heaven Done Signed My Name”…
February 1, 2019
Ernie Watts will be the featured saxophonist for Jazz at the Berlin Philharmonic on February 6. The musical program is “Pannonica – Tribute to the Jazz Baroness.” The Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter was a life-long friend and patron of countless jazz…
January 18, 2019
The upcoming CW Series “In The Dark” is using the Ted Hawkins’ composition “Strange Conversation” in one episode. The murder mystery featuring an irreverent 20-something blind woman is set to premiere on April 4, 2019.
November 30, 2018
Respected physicist Stephon Alexander, a professor at Brown University and author of “The Jazz Of Physics” presents an opening lecture at a concert by the Ernie Watts Quartet at the Deutsch-American Institute (DAI) in Heidelberg, Germany on December 2. Alexander…
November 2, 2018
The new Tyler Perry Film “Nobody’s Fool” employs the T-Bone Walker classic “Stormy Monday.” The 2-minute scene uses the Bobby “Blue” Bland version of this blues standard.