Jeff "Tain" Watts

drums

Jeff "Tain" Watts is an acclaimed jazz drummer and composer born in Pittsburgh in 1960. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s with Wynton Marsalis' quintet and has since become one of the most in-demand drummers in jazz, working with Michael Brecker, Alice Coltrane, Kenny Garrett, McCoy Tyner, and Branford Marsalis, among many others. A Grammy Award winner with multiple nominations, Watts has also established himself as a bandleader and composer, earning a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.