Jeff "tain" Watts Trio at Polish National Home

Hartford Jazz Society is proud to present Drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts on Friday, May 5 at 8:00 PM at the Polish National Home, 60 Charter Oak Ave, Hartford, CT. The concert will be preceded by a Master Class beginning at 4:30 PM, and a performance by The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Jazz ensemble at 7:00 PM.

Jeff Tain Watts will be accompanied by guitarist Paul Bollenback and bassist Orlando le Fleming.

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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Hartford Jazz Society is proud to present Drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts on Friday, May 5 at 8:00 PM at the Polish National Home, 60 Charter Oak Ave, Hartford, CT. The concert will be preceded by a Master Class beginning at 4:30 PM, and a performance by The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Jazz ensemble at 7:00 PM.

Jeff Tain Watts will be accompanied by guitarist Paul Bollenback and bassist Orlando le Fleming.

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.

General admission tickets: $20 in advance/$25 at the door. $5 students. Hartford Jazz Society members – $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

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