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Vocalist, jazz drummer, composer, record company executive, and a founder of the Sonoma Valley Jazz Society a nonprofit philanthropic organization, David Watson's "things to do" list is always long. Born in Florida, he moved to one of the cauldrons of jazz, Philadelphia, when he was eight where he adsorbed the jazz the city offered almost right away. His neighborhood was a place where John Coltrane, Ray Bryant, and Shirley Scott once lived. Fellow drummer Mickey Roker is his cousin. After hearing Ella Fitzgerald do "A-Tisket a-Tasket," he became hooked on the music. It wasn't until 1971, after he moved to San Francisco, that he began to perform professionally, working at such venues as ~Sweetwaters, singing and playing the drums. He worked with and formed some of the more exciting groups in and around the Bay Area, including Bay's West, which included hard boppers Eddie Henderson and Hadley Caliman.

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