Jeff "Tain" Watts
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Jeff "Tain" Watts | |
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![]() Watts performing with Wynton Marsalis in JazzFest 2007 | |
Background information | |
Born | Easton, Pennsylvania,U.S. | January 20, 1960
Origin | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,US |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader, actor |
Instrument | Drums |
Labels | Dark Key Music |
Website | tainish |
Jeff"Tain"Watts(born January 20, 1960) is ajazzdrummer who has performed withWynton Marsalis,Branford Marsalis,Betty Carter,Michael Brecker,Alice Coltrane,Ravi Coltrane,and others.
Biography
[edit]Watts got the nickname "Tain" fromKenny Kirklandwhen they were on tour inFloridaand drove past a Chieftain gas station.[1]He was given aGuggenheim fellowshipin music composition in 2017.[2]Watts attendedBerklee College of Music,where he met collaborator Branford Marsalis.[3]
Discography
[edit]As leader
[edit]- Megawatts(Sunnyside, 1991)
- Citizen Tain(Columbia,1999)
- Bar Talk(Columbia, 2002)
- Detained at the Blue Note(Half Note,2004)
- Folks Songs(Dark Key Music, 2011)
- Watts(Dark Key Music, 2009)
- Family(Dark Key Music, 2011)
- Blue, Vol. 1(Dark Key Music, 2015)
- Blue, Vol. 2(Dark Key Music, 2018)
- Detained in Amsterdam(Dark Key Music, 2018)
As sideman
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WithJohn Beasley
WithPaul Bollenback
WithMichael Brecker
WithJoey Calderazzo
WithCharles Fambrough'
WithKenny Garrett
WithJimmy Greene
WithDavid Gilmore
WithConrad Herwig
WithStanley Jordan
WithDavid Kikoski
WithJoe Locke
WithEllis Marsalis Jr.'
WithWynton Marsalis
WithMingus Big Band
WithGreg Osby
WithMakoto Ozone
WithDanilo Perez
WithCourtney Pine
WithRobert Stewart
WithSadao Watanabe
WithWarren Wolf
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With others
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Awards and honors
[edit]Grammy Awards
[edit]Year | Category | Title | Genre | Result | Notes |
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1985 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | Black Codes From the Underground | Jazz | Won | with Wynton Marsalis |
1986 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | J Mood | Jazz | Won | with Wynton Marsalis |
1987 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | Marsalis Standard Time - Vol. 1 | Jazz | Won | with Wynton Marsalis |
1992 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | I Heard You Twice the First Time | Jazz | Won | with Branford Marsalis |
1990 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | Crazy People Music | Jazz | Nominated | with Branford Marsalis Quartet |
1999 | Best Jazz Instrumental Album by an Individual or Group | Requiem | Jazz | Nominated | with the Branford Marsalis Quartet. |
2000 | Best Jazz Instrumental Album by an Individual or Group | Contemporary Jazz | Jazz | Won | with the Branford Marsalis Quartet. |
2004 | Best Jazz Instrumental Album by an Individual or Group | Eternal | Jazz | Nominated | with the Branford Marsalis Quartet. |
2010 | Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album | Mingus Big Band Live at the Jazz Standard | Jazz | Won | with the Mingus Big Band |
2023 | Best Opera Recording | Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Blanchard) | Opera | Won | with the Metropolitan Opera |
2024 | Best Opera Recording | Champion (Blanchard) | Opera | Won | with the Metropolitan Opera |
Source:[4]
References
[edit]- ^From an interview withKevin Le GendreforJazz On 3onBBC Radio 3.
- ^2017 Guggenheim Fellow
- ^Milkowski, Bill (9 May 2019)."Jeff" Tain "Watts: The Reign of" Tain "".JazzTimes.Retrieved2020-07-03.
- ^grammy.com.Retrieved January 18, 2020.
External links
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- 1960 births
- Living people
- American jazz drummers
- African-American drummers
- Jazz musicians from Pittsburgh
- Columbia Records artists
- Berklee College of Music alumni
- The Tonight Show Band members
- American session musicians
- 20th-century American drummers
- American male drummers
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians
- Branford Marsalis Quartet members
- Sunnyside Records artists
- 20th-century African-American musicians
- 21st-century African-American musicians