Richard Watters

Who is Richard Watters?

Richard James Watters, Jr. (born May 13, 1953 in Joliet, Illinois) is an American jazz journalist (freelance) and jazz musician (trumpet) who is Chicago-based. Currently Richard Watters is the editor of a syndicated jazz information-aggregation weblog which has come to some popularity with internet-based jazz fans known as JAZZzology (http://JAZZzology.blogspot.com). JAZZzology can be found as a credited news source on AllAboutJazz.com (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/entity.php?id=13679) and JazzMattters.com (http://jazz.mattters.com/) as an info news source for jazz topics. It primarily showcases news and events happening on the Chicago jazz scene. Richard hopes soon to start including items on the New York City and Los Angeles jazz scenes as well. JAZZzology is one of a series of 50 blogs TheZologyBlogs (http://thezologyblogs.blogspot.com) on various topics of interest and study to Richard that he wants to share with others in the on-line community. Some of the more popular blogs besides JAZZzology are: ROCKzology, BEERzology, NAVYzology, BUCKzology. More information regarding the jazz music background of Richard Watters can be found at the Richard Watters AllAboutJazz.com profile at http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=16475. The professional profile of Richard Watters can be found on LinkedIn.com at http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardjwatters/.