Freddie Waits

Freddie Waits

Freddie Waits, 52nd Street Jazz Fair, July 6, 1976 New York City
Photo by Tom Marcello
Background information
Born (1940-04-27)April 27, 1940
Jackson, Mississippi
Died November 18, 1989(1989-11-18) (aged 49)
New York City
Genres Jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Bebop
Hard Bop
Instruments Drums

Frederick "Freddie" Douglas Waits (April 27, 1940 – November 18, 1989) was a hard bop and post-bop drummer.

Waits never officially recorded as leader, however he was a prominent member and composer in Max Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble.

He worked as sideman with a number of influential pianists, including McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, Andrew Hill, Gene Harris, Billy Taylor and Joe Zawinul.

In the late 1970s, Waits formed Colloquium III with fellow drummers Horace Arnold and Billy Hart. In the 1980s he became a music faculty member of Rutgers University. He died of pneumonia and kidney failure in New York in 1989.[1]

His son is the drummer Nasheet Waits.[2]

Discography

As sideman

With M'Boom

With Roy Ayers

With Gary Bartz

With Willie Bobo

With Kenny Burrell

With Donald Byrd

With Stanley Cowell

With Richard Davis

With Jack DeJohnette

With Bill Dixon

With Tiny Grimes

With Gene Harris

With Andrew Hill

With Richard "Groove" Holmes

With Freddie Hubbard

With Willis Jackson

With Clifford Jordan

With Hubert Laws

With Junior Mance

With Charles McPherson

With James Moody

With Lee Morgan

With Don Patterson

With Pharoah Sanders

With Shirley Scott

With Buddy Terry

With McCoy Tyner

With Joe Zawinul

With Curtis Fuller

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic bio
  2. ↑ "Nasheet Waits Biography". Retrieved 2008-11-18.
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