Jeff "Tain" Watts 4 with James Francies, Paul Bollenback and Yunior Terry Set 1
A marvelously gifted, Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and composer, Jeff "Tain" Watts is a dynamic technician with an ear for inventive, polyrhythmic interplay and hard-swinging grooves. His style, while distinctively his own, evinces his love of artists like Elvin Jones, Ed Blackwell and Max Roach. (All Music)
A marvelously gifted, Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and composer, Jeff "Tain" Watts is a dynamic technician with an ear for inventive, polyrhythmic interplay and hard-swinging grooves. His style, while distinctively his own, evinces his love of artists like Elvin Jones, Ed Blackwell and Max Roach. (All Music)
Jeff "Tain" Watts Biography, Songs, & Albums | AllMusic Jeff "Tain" Watts biography and history on AllMusic including birthday, best songs, existing and new album information, and more. www.allmusic.com Watts joined the Wynton Marsalis Quartet in 1981 and proceeded to win three Grammy Awards with the ensemble: Black Codes From The Underground, J Mood and Marsalis Standard Time. Watts left Wynton Marsalis in 1988. After working with George Benson, Harry Connick. Jr. and McCoy Tyner, he joined the Branford Marsalis Quartet in 1989, winning Grammy's for I Heard You Twice the First Time and Contemporary Jazz.
In the film and television industry Jeff has appeared as both a musician on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and as an actor, Rhythm Jones in Spike Lee’s "Mo Better Blues". Jeff joined Kenny Garrett's band after returning to New York in 1995 and continued to record and tour with Branford Marsalis as well as Danilo Perez, Michael Brecker, Betty Carter, Kenny Kirkland, Courtney Pine, Geri Allen, Alice Coltrane, Greg Osby, McCoy Tyner, Steve Coleman, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Harry Connick Jr, and Ravi Coltrane.
Along with explosive power, searing speed and mastery of complex rhythms and time signatures, Watts brings a rare sense of elegance, tried-by-fire composure, and a gritty street funk to his music. His artistic ingenuity expresses itself in his incomparable technique, sweltering sense of swing, and an extraordinary ability to imbue his music with majestic grace and elegant repose. A true jazz innovator, Watts never fails to deliver the percussive magic that has been his trademark since his emergence on the contemporary jazz scene.
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