Charlie Watts

Outside of his celebrated role as drummer for the Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts has had a small but significant jazz-oriented solo career. A lifetime student of jazz, and of Charlie Parker in particular, Watts (who is also a gifted illustrator) started in 1964 by publishing a children's tribute to Parker titled High Flying Bird. During the '70s, he joined longtime Stones pianist Ian Stewart in the Rocket 88 band, which featured young British jazz players like Evan Parker and Courtney Pine. In the '90s, a number of intimate, standards-only Charlie Watts Quintet albums also appe...