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Kit Watkins (born 1953) is an American progressive-ambient-jazz recording artist based in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was previously a member of the band Happy the Man. [1] Beginnings. Born in Virginia to classical piano teachers, Watkins took piano lessons from the age of 5 to 13.
Stanley Whitaker und Rick Kennell lernten sich 1972 auf einem US-Army -Stützpunkt in Deutschland kennen und formierten nach ihrer Rückkehr in die USA mit den Keyboardern Frank Wyatt und Kit Watkins sowie dem Schlagzeuger Mike Beck und zunächst auch dem Sänger Cliff Fortney eine Band.
Kit Watkins is continuing to record and release new works from his private studio in Brattleboro, Vermont. The music of Kit Watkins can be heard on-line at www.kitwatkins.com , as well as on such broadcast radio shows as Hearts of Space, Star’s End, and Echoes.
Happy the Man is the debut album by the American progressive rock band Happy the Man, released in 1977. Rolling Stone ranked it 50th on their list of the 50 greatest prog-rock albums of all time.
Kit Watkins, the star of the recording, establishes himself as the most accomplished (and the fastest) Mini-Moog player. The keyboard arrangements (with Frank Wyatt sharing keyboard duties) summon a magical haze of electric piano and string-synth. Frank Wyatt's woodwinds integrate perfectly with the lush but (amazingly) never-overbearing ...
Happy the Man continues to be a cult favorite in progressive rock circles, the interest in their music fueled by the Internet, iTunes, Amazon, and Kit Watkins' CD remasters and reissues and various archival releases.
17. Jan. 2024 · That’s where I met Stan Whitaker [Happy The Man guitarist] and Kit Watkins [keyboards]. I met Stan in a jazz theory class. He’d just moved there from Germany and he turned me on to all these progressive bands. He played me things like Gentle Giant, Colosseum and Soft Machine and I was like, “Holy shit! This is awesome!”
