The first thing one notices on the front cover of The Deep Blue is the artist name: "Trevor Watts." Not Trevor Watts' Moiré Music Group, not Trevor Watts the Celebration Band, not Trevor Watts and anybody. This is Watts alone, and so perhaps it's akin to his 2005 CD of solo saxophone improvisations, World Sonic. But the back cover lists instrumentation of saxophones, percussion, piano, and synthesizer, so something else is going on here. Yes, Watts has multi-tracked himself on all those instruments; The Deep Blue is a singular entry in his catalog -- essentially an entire band full of Trevors. And The Deep Blue doesn’t focus on the "free jazz" side of Watts' oeuvre; he is in Moiré and Celebration Band world groove mode here, as titles like "Ghana Bop," "Mama Rhumba's," "Highlands & Islands," and "The Moiré Principle" suggest. The difference is that Watts does not perform these pieces in the context of a multicultural band that speaks With One Voice; he speaks with one voice, period. And he manages all the instruments quite nicely all by his lonesome.

1		Lace
2		Deep Blue
3		Highlands and Islands
4		Drumbola
5		A Life's Celebration
6		A Golden Roses
7		The Moire Principle
8		Ghana Bop
9		Mama Rhumba's