Peter Watrous is a Mexican-American musician from Nantucket, MA who graduated from The Guitar Institute of Technology in the Dark Ages, studied with Joe Diorio and Max Roach, played with Archie Shepp, Ray Copeland, Marion Brown and Jimmy Owens, then gave up music and wrote for The Nation, Village Voice and the New York Times. He regained his senses, and started playing music again, which he does regularly at Smalls, Ornithology and Bar Bayeux.