Charlie Watts

Charlie Watts , of its true name Charles Robert Watts (born the June 2nd 1941 with Wembley in the Middlesex, in England) is a Musicien, beater of the Rolling Stones since 1962.

Biography

At its beginnings, in 1961, he plays as an amateur in the Blues Incorporated of Alexis Korner, which includes/understands many musicians of passage, going and coming, of which Cyril Davis, some Mick Jagger with the song, Ginger Baker with the battery and Jack Bruce with the double bass. To live he is draftsman in an advertizing agency.

He will leave his place definitively to Ginger Baker and will become professional beater with the Rolling Stones in 1963, within dequels he will replace definitively Mick Avory, one their occasional beaters.

Silent, quiet, it will be very far from all the agitation of the group. Bill Wyman, large chronicler of Stones, guarantees that it him forever known neither drugs nor women, with share his, Shirley, with which it will have a child, Seraphina, in 1968! It spends its time drawing the hotel rooms in which it is with each concert…

Musicalement it is very attracted by the jazz, its first love. When it starts with Stones, it does not know which kind of music they play. For him “the r' B it is not a fast blues played in shuffle in the Chicago style”. Its approach different from the music that play Stones will form integral part of the her characteristic of the group.

Charlie Watts also recorded discs of jazz under its name, music of which he is large admiror. It also published a work of drawings devoted to Charlie Parker. Its particular style is marked by the influence of the jazz and is characterized by a not very conclusive technique (he says to hate the solo) but a reliability and a “groove” which make of it a musician respected and admired his pars.

Very respected by the other members of the group, with each concert of Stones it is entitled to a particular ovation.

Charlie Watts, thanks to passion for the horses of his Shirley wife, became stockbreeder of thorough-bred Arabs under the Halsdon affix.

Discography

Rolling Stones

Solo

1981 : Rocket 88 - with Jack Bruce, Ian Stewart, Alexis Korner, and other guests.
1986: The Charlie Watts Orchestrated - Live At Fulham Town Hall
1992: Charlie Quintet Watts - Tribute To Charlie Parker
1993: Charlie Quintet Watts - From One Charlie
2000: Charlie Watts - Jim Keltner - Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project
2004: Charlie & The Tentet Watts - Watt' S At Scott' S ; album jazzy with resumptions of Duke Elligton or Miles Davis, and an astonishing version of Satisfaction .

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