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Jeff 'tain' Watts Travel Band Cd Release "detained In Amsterdam" at The Falcon
Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on August 2, 2018
Where
The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970
When
Sun, August 19, 2018
8:00 pm
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Musicians
About
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. ...