Jeff "Tain" Watts

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, Tony Williams, and Max Roach. Although a star in his own right, Watts is best known for his long association with brothers Wynton and Branford Marsalis, whose groups he was a member of during his early formative years, recording such landmark albums as Black Codes (From the Underground), and the Grammy-winn...