Heath Watts - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Soprano saxophonist Heath Watts was born in Butte, MT. Watts calls his method of playing and composition NODOT, which means Non-Objective Dynamically Ordered Tones. "The Non-Objective portion comes from the ideas of the visual artist W. Kandinsky. He believed that art did not have to represent anything tangible in the "real world", and I believe the same thing about music. In my playing, you will hear the influences of jazz, blues, world music, noise, rock, and other genre, but when I improvise I like to consider pure sound, and how the tones and sounds fit together. This results in the Dynamically Ordered Tones portion of NODOT."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/6/2007
Band Members: For this page, I am the only member. I play solo soprano saxophone. I also play with groups including Grass Hair Duo and The Philadelphia Company, both located in Philadelphia (myspace.com/grasshairduo) and The Outside All-Stars while home in Montana.
Influences: Jazz and Improvisation: Steve Lacy, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, Evan Parker, Charlie Parker, Lol Coxhill, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, David Liebman, Test, William Parker, and many more.Blues B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson, Gary Davis, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Charlie Patton, and many more.World Music African drumming music, Indian Classical Music, Ravi ShankarPop/Rock Music: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Cream, Terry PetersonPoetry: David Budbill, Lao Tzu, e.e. cummingsFine Arts: Vincent van Gogh, Kandinsky, Picasso, Rodin, Monet, impressionism, expressionism, nonobjectivismVarious literature, philosophy, science, math, music, and poetry.
Sounds Like: Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk
Record Label: Leo Records www.leorecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Upcoming CD

I've finished recording my new album. I now need to finish mastering and producing it. It should be available in early June.I posted another song from the album on my myspace page called Antananarivo....
Posted by Heath Watts on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:50:00 PST

music and politics

This weekend I watched the US vs. John Lennon. It was good overall, but they could have focused more on Lennon's politics, rather than his musical history.One thing that did surprise and bother me was...
Posted by Heath Watts on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:49:00 PST

New store additions

Dear Friends,I have just added five new tracks from my upcoming CD "Solos 1: Mailbox Full of Noise." I recorded these tracks in one take playing my Keilwerth SX90 saxophone into a Sennheiser MD421II m...
Posted by Heath Watts on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:34:00 PST