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Bill Watrous
Bill Watrous is credited on 737 releases across 200 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
737
Pressings credited
200
Albums
7
Decades active
279
In collections
Biography
William Russell Watrous III (June 8, 1939 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love", which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name. A self-described "bop-oriented" player, he was well known among trombonists as a master technician and for his mellifluous sound.
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Credited work
737 releases · 200 albums · active 1963–2025
- Performance · 858
- Other credits · 103
- Production · 11
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · A&R Studios · 914 Sound Studios · Columbia Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Parade
1986
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1977
Extreme II : Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairytale)
1990
Prelude
1973
Sounds...And Stuff Like That!!
1978
California Dreaming
1967
The Leprechaun
1976
Between The Lines
1975
Trilogy: Past, Present & Future
1980
Aliens Ate My Buick
1988
Blade Runner (Orchestral Adaptation Of Music Composed For The Motion Picture By Vangelis)
1982
Roots (The Saga Of An American Family)
1977
L.A. Is My Lady
1984
1980
1980
Stars
1974
The Best Of
1984
Ride Like The Wind
1982
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil (Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture)
1997
Funk In A Mason Jar
1977
Main Squeeze
1976
Simba
1974
Dawn Of A New Day
1973
Summertime
1969
Anthology. Messages
2005
Frequent collaborators
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