Sun
Apr 2, 2023
Split Bill
Main Stage

CANCELLED-Jeff 'Tain' Watts Quintet | "Post Pandemic Parables"

No reservations
With opening act:  
Dining 5-9pm. Music 7:30pm.

ft. Jeff 'Tain' Watts (Drums, Compositions), Don Byron (Reeds), Paul Bollenback (Guitar), James Francies (Keys), Yunior Terry (Bass)

"Post Pandemic Parables" - composed by Jeff 'Tain' Watts - is a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commission funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Jeff 'Tain' Watts Quintet
Apr 2, 2023
  •  
Main Stage
  •  
Dining 5-9pm. Music 7:30pm.

"Post Pandemic Parables" - composed by Jeff 'Tain' Watts - is a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commission funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Featuring:

Jeff 'Tain' Watts: Drums, Compositions

Don Byron: Reeds

Paul Bollenback: Guitar

James Francies: Keys

Yunior Terry: Bass


"Underlying everything.... is Watts' propulsive, empathetic drumming. He reacts immediately and specifically to every musical nuance dropped by his bandmates and has the ability to make his presence known on bombastic funk jams as well as on delicate ballads." - All Music

Jeff Tain Watts
http://www.tainish.com/


Jeff Watts, the drummer they call "Tain," spent his formative years with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and his compositional skills now command equal attention.
Jeff initially majored in classical percussion at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University, where he was primarily a timpanist, followed by enrollment at the Berklee School of Music.

Jeff 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.