Please join the NC State Jazz Ensemble I under the direction of Wes Parker for an unforgettable evening of great jazz as we welcome our featured guest, Harry Watters.

 

Washington, DC. His recordings include Love Songs, Centaur Records’ S’Wonderful: The Music of George Gershwin with arranger and conductor William Grimes, and Summit Records’ Brothers, Brothers II & Brothers III with trumpeter Ken Watters. After graduation from the University of North Texas, Harry spent four years touring and recording with the Dukes of Dixieland. While working at night on Bourbon Street, a sleep-deprived Watters attended the University of New Orleans by day, serving as the graduate assistant to Professor Ellis Marsalis.

 

Watters has performed with Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Erich Kunzel, Shirley Jones, Peter Nero, Kevin Mahogany, Wycliffe Gordon, Bernadette Peters, Lou Rawls, Maureen McGovern, Bill Watrous, Carl Fontana, Jiggs Whiggam, Tom “Bones Malone” & James Moody. Also, Harry has appeared as a featured soloist with the West Virginia Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, the Baton Rouge Symphony, the Tulsa Pops, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Janacek Philharmonic, the University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band, the Kishinev Festival Orchestra & the U.S. Army Orchestra. Harry is constantly on the move. His clinic, “Power Practicing,” has been presented at the American Band College, the Association of Concert Bands National Convention, the University of North Texas, Southeastern Louisiana University, New Mexico State University, the University of Tennessee, East Carolina State University, Baker University, the University of Central Florida, Virginia Commonwealth University, Louisiana State University, Loyola University, the University of New Orleans and in high schools throughout the United States.