Eric Watson (musician)

Eric Watson (born July 5, 1955) is an American jazz pianist.

Early life and education

Watson was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He began playing piano as a child and performed in rock bands in Massachusetts. He studied classical music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio.

Career

After graduating from college in 1978, Watson moved to Paris, where he performed jazz and classical music and worked as an accompanist for a dance group. is signed to a long-term recording contract with ACT Music. He has worked with double bass player John Lindberg, drummer Ed Thigpen, and Steve Lacy.

Discography

Bulls Blood (1980) Conspiracy (1982) Child in the Sky (1985) Piano One (1985) Your Tonight Is My Tomorrow (1987) Charles Ives (1991) Palimpseste (1991) Listen to the Night (1994) Punk Circus (1994) Silent Hearts (1999) Full Metal Quartet (2000) Sketches of Solitude (2002) Road Movies (2004) Midnight Torsion (2009) Memories of Paris (2010)

With Steve Lacy

Spirit of Mingus (Free Lance, 1992) Clangs (hat ART, 1993)

References

External links and sources

http://nfo.net/calendar/jul05.htm

http://www.actmusic.com/artist_detail.php?bio=1&manufacturers_id=28

Mainstream jazz pianists

American classical pianists

Male classical pianists

American male pianists

American jazz pianists

American jazz composers

American male jazz composers

20th-century classical composers

1955 births

Living people

Avant-garde jazz pianists

ACT Music artists

People from Wellesley, Massachusetts

Oberlin Conservatory of Music alumni

American male classical composers

American classical composers

20th-century American composers

20th-century American pianists

Jazz musicians from Massachusetts

Classical musicians from Massachusetts

21st-century classical pianists

20th-century American male musicians

21st-century American male musicians

21st-century American pianists

Sunnyside Records artists

20th-century jazz composers