Julius Watkins
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Julius Watkins (October 10, 1921 – April 4, 1977) was an American jazz musician who played French horn.
Discography
As leader/co-leader
- Julius Watkins Sextet, Vol 1 & 2 (Blue Note, 1954, 1955)
- French Horns for My Lady (Phillips, 1962)
With Charlie Rouse as Les Jazz Modes/The Jazz Modes
- Jazzville Vol. 1 (Dawn, 1956) - shared LP with Gene Quill-Dick Sherman Quintet
- Les Jazz Modes (Dawn, 1956)
- Mood in Scarlet (Dawn, 1956)
- The Most Happy Fella (Atlantic, 1958)
- The Jazz Modes (Atlantic, 1959)
With Jazz Contemporaries (George Coleman, Clifford Jordan, Harold Mabern, Larry Ridley, Keno Duke)
- Reasons in Tonality (Strata-East, 1972)
As sideman
With Manny Albam
- Jazz Goes to the Movies (Impulse!, 1962)
With Benny Bailey
- Big Brass (Candid, 1960)
With Art Blakey
- Golden Boy (Colpix, 1964)
With Kenny Burrell
- Guitar Forms (Verve, 1965)
With Billy Byers
- Impressions of Duke Ellington (Mercury, 1961)
With Donald Byrd
- Jazz Lab (Columbia, 1957) - with Gigi Gryce
- Modern Jazz Perspective (Columbia, 1957) - with Gigi Gryce
With John Coltrane
- Africa/Brass (Impulse!, 1961)
- The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2 (Impulse!, 1961 [1974])
With Tadd Dameron
- The Magic Touch (Riverside, 1962)
With Miles Davis
- Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1959)
- Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (Columbia, 1961)
- Quiet Nights (Columbia, 1963)
With Billy Eckstein
- At Basin Street East (EmArcy, 1961) with Quincy Jones
With Gil Evans
- New Bottle Old Wine (World Pacific, 1958)
- The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve, 1964)
- Blues in Orbit (Enja, 1971)
With Art Farmer
- Brass Shout (United Artists, 1959)
With Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes
- Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns (Status, 1957 [1962])
With Dizzy Gillespie
- Gillespiana (Verve, 1960)
With Allen Ginsberg
- Songs of Innocence and Experience (MGM, 1970)<ref name="Jurek"/>
With Benny Golson
- Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary, 1957)
With Johnny Griffin
- Change of Pace (Riverside, 1961)
With Gigi Gryce
- Nica's Tempo (Signal, 1955)
With Jimmy Heath
- The Quota (Riverside, 1961)
- Triple Threat (Riverside, 1962)
- Swamp Seed (Riverside, 1963)
With Freddie Hubbard
- The Body & the Soul (Impulse!, 1963)
With Milt Jackson
- Meet Milt Jackson (Savoy, 1949)
- Roll 'Em Bags (Savoy, 1949)
- For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)
With The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
- The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA 1968)
With Quincy Jones
- The Birth of a Band! (Mercury, 1959)
- The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones (Mercury, 1959)
- Q Live in Paris Circa 1960 (Quest, 1960 [1996])
- The Birth of a Band! Vol. 2 (Mercury, 1959-60 [1984])
- I Dig Dancers (Mercury, 1960)
- Around the World (Mercury, 1961)
- Newport '61 (Mercury, 1961)
- The Great Wide World Of Quincy Jones: Live! (Mercury, 1961 [1984])
- The Quintessence (Impulse!, 1962)
- Big Band Bossa Nova (Mercury, 1962)
- Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits (Mercury, 1963)
- Quincy Plays for Pussycats (Mercury, 1959-65 [1965])
With Thad Jones and Mel Lewis
- Consummation (Solid State, 1970)
- Suite for Pops (Horizon, 1975)
- New Life (Horizon, 1976)
With Beverly Kenney
- Come Swing with Me (Roost, 1956)
With Stan Kenton
- Cuban Fire! (Capitol Records, 1956)
With Roland Kirk
- Left & Right (Atlantic, 1968)
With Michel Legrand
- Michel Legrand Big Band Plays Richard Rogers (Phillips, 1963)
With the Manhattan Jazz All-Stars
- Swinging Guys and Dolls (Columbia, 1959)
With Herbie Mann
- The Herbie Mann String Album (Atlantic, 1967)
With Cal Massey
- Blues to Coltrane (Candid, 1961)
With Mat Mathews
- The Modern Art of Jazz by Mat Mathews (Dawn, 1956)
- 4 French Horns plus Rhythm (Elektra, 1958)
With Charles McPherson
- Today's Man (Mainstream, 1973)
With Gil Mellé
- Gil's Guests (Prestige, 1963)
With Charles Mingus
- Music Written for Monterey 1965 (Jazz Workshop, 1965)
- Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia, 1972)
With Blue Mitchell
- A Sure Thing (Riverside, 1962)
With Thelonious Monk
- Monk (Prestige, 1954)
- Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige, 1954)
With David Newman
- The Many Facets of David Newman (Atlantic, 1969)
With Oliver Nelson
- Afro/American Sketches (Prestige, 1961)
With Chico O'Farrill
- Nine Flags (Impulse!, 1966)
With Oscar Peterson
- Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! (Verve, 1962)
With Oscar Pettiford
- The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet (Debut, 1953)
- Oscar Pettiford (Bethlehem, 1954)
- The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi (ABC-Paramount, 1956)
- The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
With Johnny Richards
- Experiments in Sound (Capitol, 1958)
- The Rites of Diablo (Roulette, 1958)
- Walk Softly/Run Wild! (Coral, 1959)
With the Riverside Jazz Stars
- A Jazz Version of Kean (Riverside, 1962)
With Pete Rugolo
- Rugolomania (Columbia, 1955)
- New Sounds by Pete Rugolo (Harmony, 1954–55, [1957])
With Pharoah Sanders
- Karma (Impulse, 1969)
With George Shearing
- Satin Brass (Capitol, 1959)
With Warren Smith
- Composer's Workshop Ensemble (Strata-East, 1972)
With Les Spann
- Gemini (Jazzland, 1961)
With Billy Taylor
- Kwamina (Mercury, 1961)
With Clark Terry
- Color Changes (Candid, 1960)
With McCoy Tyner
- Song of the New World (Milestone, 1973)
With Randy Weston
- Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
- Highlife (Colpix, 1963)
- Tanjah (Polydor, 1973)
With Art Webb
- Mr. Flute (Atlantic, 1977)
With Mary Lou Williams
- Mary Lou's Mass (Mary, 1972 [1975])
With Phil Woods
- Rights of Swing (Candid, 1961)