Should you need convincing that the Rolling Stones drummer is also a serious jazz musician, spend some time with these seven tracks, which find him quite at home in some very fast company indeed. Jamming is one thing; finding oneself in the midst of one of Europe’s top jazz orchestras is something else, and Charlie Watts handles it with aplomb. The music, arranged and conducted by trumpeter and fellow Brit Gerard Presencer, is taken from a live concert. Naturally, there are three Stones numbers, heavily disguised, including a terrific Paint It Black, featuring Presencer. The big showpiece, though, is Watts’s Elvin Suite, climaxed by his duet with drummer Søren Frost.
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This was amended on 3 May 2017 to correctly identify the drummer of the Danish Radio Big Band.
