Watts, originally from Sweden and a longtime resident of Israel, has paid his blues dues.
The Minuette band members shared musical tastes, which also took in such jazz giants as pianist Keith Jarrett, guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Joe Lovano and bass player Eberhard Weber.
Oren wound up in Israel in 1970 and stayed for eight months, the beginning of an attraction to the country that culminated in her aliya in the early 1980s.