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Welcome to Water Babies!

Water Babies play spontaneously created funk improvisations lovingly designed to have you shakin' your booty. Think Bitches Brew or Headhunters combined with Galactic or The Meters and you'll get an idea...
Water Babies is all about the energy and spontaneity of improvised music. We came together as an experiment to see if we could strip away everything we knew about form and chord changes and just ride The Groove. What we have found has exceeded our wildest expectations. All of our songs are one-take improvisations rooted in The Groove which we hope will have you shakin' your thang!

Every one of our shows is full of surprises and unexpected twists and turns. Magical interaction and tight coherence ensues as we develop new musical ideas in every moment. We draw inspiration from each other, from the audience, from the atmosphere of the room, and from our musical forefathers, groups like Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew band, Maceo Parker, and Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Above all, we never lose our main focus: To deliver the most distinguished and funky improv grooves we can muster and share the joy that comes from creating magic in each moment.

See you at the gig!

Yours,
Jason, Aaron, Josh and Brad



Water Babies are:

Jason Parker :: trumpet & flugelhorn
Josh Rawlings :: Fender Rhodes piano & Hammond organ
Aaron Kassover :: upright & electric bass
Brad Gibson :: drums

<a href="http://waterbabies.bandcamp.com/album/draw-me-a-bath">Kozmo's Couch by Water Babies</a>
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Our CD "Draw Me A Bath" is now available!
We are very excited to let you know that our first full-length CD, "Draw Me A Bath," is now available for download at Bandcamp.

Preview it here:

<a href="http://waterbabies.bandcamp.com/album/draw-me-a-bath">Kozmo's Couch by Water Babies</a>
This is what critics say about us:

"I keep fantasizing that some group will fuse the funky grooves of 1970s cop-show jazz with the abrupt, mind-melting segues of the mid-1970s Miles Davis groups. Plying similar yet more straight-ahead territory, Water Babies manage to bring the funk free of the usual jam-band excesses."
— Christopher DeLaurenti, The Stranger
"It's rare to get it right but the Water Babies have the musical chemistry and chops that carry their free-form compositions to tingly heights. Plus, they know how to lay down a big fat groove and that's a good thing."
— Don Rauf, Seattlest.com