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Jarrard Harris Quartet w/Kobie Watkins

Jarrard Harris (Alto Saxophone)
Kobie Watkins (drums)
Willl Ledbetter (bass)
Christian Tamburr (piano)

Louisville, Kentucky native and Youth Performing Arts School graduate Jarrard Harris has been performing and teaching in Chicago since 1998. In addition to his own group, he was also a member of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble and has performed nationally and internationally with Joe Lovano, Jimmy Heath, Jon Faddis, Louis Bellson, Nicholas Payton, Victor Goines, Nancy Wilson, Antonio Hart, Claudia Acuna, Bill Holman, Etienne, Charles, Gerad Wilson, Bobby Watson, Eric Reed, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and many others. He serves on the adjunct faculty of Northwestern University, Columbia College, and Olive Harvey College, and he is the director of jazz studies for the Chicago Public Schools Advanced Arts Education Program in conjunction with the Thelonious Monk Institute. In the summers he teaches jazz improvisation at the Jazz Institute of Chicagos summer jazz camp. Harris is a proud graduate of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where he earned his bachelor of music degree in jazz studies, and DePaul University, where he earned a master's degree in jazz studies.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Kobie Watkins began as a small child listening and watching his father (Alious C. Watkins) playing drums in the church. Kobie started with pots and pans as a toddler. Yet over time he has developed a personal system of timely discipline and structure for music and life skill. He has progressed into who he is today-- professional drummer/percussionist and music educator.

-He received his Masters of Music from Northwestern University in Jazz Pedagogy 2003.

Kobie has has played and recorded with- jazz legend Sonny Rollins, Branford Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Curtis Fuller, Bob Mintzer, Jim Hall, John Patitucci, Arturo Sandoval, George Coleman, Ira Sullivan, Sonny Fortune, including Roy Haynes, Roy Hargrove, Kurt Elling, Fred Anderson, Chrstian McBride, Bobby Broom, Orbert Davis, Ken Chaney, Ron Perrillo, Bethany Pickens, Ryan Cohan, Jarrard Harris and James Austin.