WATKINS, JULIUS BURTON. Jazz French hornist ( in Detroit, Michigan; in Montclair, New Jersey). He began study of the French horn at the age of nine. He attended the Manhattan School of Music in New York and studied privately with Francis Hellstein of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Robert Schulze of the New York Philharmonic . He began playing professionally in the early 1940s and worked with various groups, including Ernie Fields (1943-46), ...