A stellar line-up:
Jeff "Tain" Watts/Drums, David Kikoski/Piano, Ravi Coltrane/Sax,
Yunior Terry Cabrera/Double Bass and Paul Bollenback/Guitar
Jeff Tain Watts/Drums
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. ...
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A stellar line-up:
Jeff "Tain" Watts/Drums, David Kikoski/Piano, Ravi Coltrane/Sax,
Yunior Terry Cabrera/Double Bass and Paul Bollenback/Guitar
Jeff Tain Watts/Drums
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.
Watts current album, Blue Vol.1, celebrates blues and ballads, with an overall dedication to Jeff's mother, Marie Lewis Watts, who passed away in 2012. The recordings showcase Tain’s compositional range while hinting at a future as producer with his own studio.
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.
Live in Pittsburgh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1IouD49BKY
Ravi Coltrane
http://www.ravicoltrane.com/
Critically acclaimed Grammy™ nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, Ravi Coltrane, has worked as a sideman to many, recorded noteworthy albums for himself and others and founded a prominent independent record label, RKM.
The second son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Ravi was named after Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar.
Ravi has released six albums as a leader, and credits include performances as well as recordings with Elvin Jones, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Baron, Steve Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, Matt Garrison, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Geri Allen, Joanne Brackeem, The Blue Note 7, among others. He is a co-leader of the Saxophone Summit with Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman.
Ravi maintains a fast-paced touring, recording, composing and performance schedule. He leads the effort to restore the John Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, Long Island (thecoltranehome.org) and presides over important reissues of his parents' recordings.
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