Ken Watters

Jazz trumpeter Ken Watters crafts neo-bop stylings while incoporating threads of contemporary jazz and world beat. Music is his passion, for he was only a freshman in high school when he made up his mind to become a musician. His grandfather was saxophonist Frank Humphrey, but his father was an aerospace engineer at NASA, so going into music wasn't an obvious thought in the beginning. He cites influences from trumpeters such as Tim Hagans and Woody Shaw, and while studying at North Texas State, he and his trombone playing brother, Harry Watters, collaborated on individual comp...