Jeff "Tain" Watts

drums · Pittsburgh

Drummer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has played with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Betty Carter, Michael Brecker, Alice and Ravi Coltrane. Nicknamed "Tain" by pianist Kenny Kirkland, he studied at Berklee and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in composition in 2017.

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Styles

• Neoclassicism, Young Lions

Landmark tracks

• Impaler (1999)
• Muphkin Man (1999)
• Sigmund Groid (1999)

Sources

• Source

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