Band 2: Celebrating Charlie Watts Featuring Tim Ries, Bernard Fowler, Chuck Leavell, Darryl Jones, Lewis Nash, and Stan Sorenson

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Tim Ries:

I thought what Tim recorded was amazing. The playing is beautiful, too—Tim always has such a beautiful sound.

—Keith Richards, Rolling Stones guitarist

Among jazz musicians, the saxophonist Tim Ries is known as a singular talent, a player’s player.

—New York Times

Led by longtime Rolling Stones sidemen Tim Ries and Bernard Fowler, Band 2 offers jazz- and globally inspired arrangements of Rolling Stones classics.

Saxophonist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator Tim Ries has had a unique and varied career, which began in 1983 with the great Maynard Ferguson. He has performed with the Rolling Stones since 1999, and his other performing and recording credits include a who’s who of jazz, rock, pop, and global music icons, such as Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Michael Jackson, and jazz greats Red Garland, Donald Byrd, and more. Ries has released nine albums as a bandleader, including The Rolling Stones Project and Stones World, which offer versions of Stones classics arranged for jazz and globally inspired genres.

Bernard Fowler is most widely known by millions of people around the world as a longtime collaborator and backing vocalist for the Rolling Stones, a position he has held for more than three decades. His dynamic vocals have appeared on hundreds of albums for artists as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Bootsy Collins, and many more.