‘Ode To A High Flying Bird,’ the bird being Charlie Parker, the jazz saxophonist. In 1961, twenty-year-old Charles Robert Watts was working as a full-time graphic designer and a part-time drumme ...
In 1964, he served six months in prison on drug charges. The period immediately after his release from prison is ... He also received informal tutoring from neighbours Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, and ...