Corky Siegel & Ernie Watts

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Corky Siegel (left) and Ernie Watts.

Corky Siegel (left) and Ernie Watts.

media release: Sagacious songs and instrumentals from CORKY SIEGEL the trail blazing legend of Siegel-Schwall and Chamber Blues.  

"A piano and harmonica virtuoso of remarkable invention and wit.” BILLBOARD

Cool-aborating with jazz saxophone icon 2 x Grammy winner ERNIE WATTS (The Grand Wazoo)

"He is one of the greatest living tenor saxophonists, at the top of his game." ALL ABOUT JAZZ - Ian Patterson

ERNIE WATTS two-time Grammy winner, 20 years on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, in the band led by Doc Severinsen.

You certainly have heard his recognizable ecstatic playing on some of his 1,500 classic recordings with Marvin Gaye to Dizzy Gillespie to Paul McCartney to Thelonious Monk to Aretha Franklin and Steely Dan, Pat Metheny, Cannonball Adderley, not to mention his presence as The Grand Wazoo with Frank Zappa. He toured with the Rolling Stones, Charlie Haden, Buddy Rich, and on and on.

He's still performing and putting out those recordings and always exhibiting his unforgettable gift for passionate, exciting and wild improvisations that lift audiences to the stratosphere.

Blues legend CORKY SIEGEL is dubbed a "national treasure" by DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE,

"Corky Siegel is a force to be reckoned with - a magnificent musical hurricane creating musical masterpieces, tearing down the expected..." NEW JERSEY BLUES SOCIETY Raymond Muller

HEADLINE "They Love Corky Siegel in Lincoln Center."  NEW YORK TIMES

He celebrates 60 years of performance, is a Chicago Blues Hall of Fame inductee and Lifetime Achievement awardee, with a catalogue of recordings on RCA, Vanguard, Alligator, and the Deutsche Grammophon label.

His close associations with the blues masters in the earlier days of Chicago blues, his essential part in the blues rock revolution, and his surprising success in bringing together blues and classical audiences make him a pivotal (though unassuming) figure in modern music history.

The evening promises to be a fireworks display of virtuosity, clever lyrics, and good humor one might expect from two good friends with a lifetime of experiences shared across a musical divide of jazz and blues.