Jeff "Tain" Watts

Black Codes (From the Underground)

Wynton Marsalis · 1985

Kenny Kirkland

Kenny Kirkland · 1991

Black Codes (From the Underground)Black Codes (From the Underground)Wynton Marsalis · 1985 (1985) was a manifesto for the neo-bop movement. The Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス brothers, Kenny KirklandKenny KirklandKenny Kirkland · 1991's piano, Jeff Jeff "Tain" WattsJeff "Tain" Wattsジェフ・テイン・ワッツ's drums — this band devoted itself entirely to reviving bebop's language in the present tense.

Full concert of the post-Kirkland Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス Quartet with Joey CalderazzoJoey Calderazzoジョーイ・カルデラッツォ on piano at the 1999 North Sea Jazz Festival.

— Branford Marsalis Quartet - North Sea Jazz, Prime Video / Stingray Qello, 1999

Full North Sea Jazz Festival concert of the golden-era Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス Quartet with Kenny KirklandKenny KirklandKenny Kirkland · 1991, Bob Hurst, and Jeff 'Jeff "Tain" WattsJeff "Tain" Wattsジェフ・テイン・ワッツ' Jeff "Tain" WattsJeff "Tain" Wattsジェフ・テイン・ワッツ, July 1987.

— Branford Marsalis Quartet - North Sea Jazz Festival 1987, NN North Sea Jazz Festival archive, 1987

Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス Quartet performing Wayne ShorterWayne Shorterウェイン・ショーター's 'Yes Or No' live at The Bottom Line in 1989 during the Kenny KirklandKenny KirklandKenny Kirkland · 1991 years.

— Branford Marsalis Quartet - 'Yes Or No' Live at the Bottom Line 1989, 1989

The quartet of Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス, Kenny KirklandKenny Kirklandケニー・カークランド, Jeff "Tain" WattsJeff "Tain" Wattsジェフ・テイン・ワッツ, and Robert Hurst was, from the late 1980s through the 1990s, one of the tightest saxophone bands since Coltrane's classic quartet.

— The Branford Marsalis Quartet, Wikipedia, 2024

On his sole self-titled leader album from 1991, Kenny KirklandKenny Kirklandケニー・カークランド hired Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス and Jeff "Tain" WattsJeff "Tain" Wattsジェフ・テイン・ワッツ. He left no other leader recording before his early death at 47 in 1998.

— Kenny Kirkland (album), Wikipedia, 2024

In 1999, Jeff "Tain" WattsJeff "Tain" Wattsジェフ・テイン・ワッツ released Citizen Tain. Both Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス and Wynton MarsalisWynton Marsalisウィントン・マルサリス appeared as sidemen — a rare occasion when the Marsalis brothers recorded together.

— Jeff 'Tain' Watts: Citizen Tain album review, David Adler, 1999