Charlie Watts' ode to a jazzy `Bird' // Drummer salutes late Charlie Parker

Chicago Sun-Times | June 24, 1991| | Copyright

NEW YORK Musicians, according to Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, are of two breeds: either they are fabulously frenetic or incredibly indolent.

Watts is one of the latter.

"I never say `Let's go on the road' - ever - to the Stones," Watts said.

"Mick (Jagger) suggested doing this last tour and I said, `No, I'm not going.' . . . It was Keith and my wife who said, `You're going away again.' "

So it wasn't Watts' idea to launch his current project: the reissue of a children's book he wrote and illustrated about the late jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker and a new recording to ...

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