His newest album, Sum of Parts, has been mentioned in the Best of 2017 thread, but Dean Watson has been around for a while (though I am just discovering him). I want to say, I'm very impressed, and this music deserves a thread.
This is fusion, not extremely slanted toward either the jazz or rock side -- the kind of stuff that I think sounds like jazz, but jazz aficionados think it sounds like prog. The thing it reminds me of most is Holdsworth; it has the same sweet, somewhat bodiless guitar tone. But the resemblance is very partial; this is new, not retro, music.
Discography:
Unsettled (2010)
Imposing Elements (2012)
Fantasizer! (2014)
Sum of Parts (2017)
Maybe someone else can do better at placing Watson's work in context. But it is fine, fine music that I could listen to all day.
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