Watts, Jeff "Tain" / Watts
| Album: | Watts | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Watts, Jeff "Tain" | Added: | May 2009 | |
| Label: | Dark Key Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2009-05-17 | Pull Date: | 2009-07-19 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Jul 5 | Jun 28 | Jun 21 | Jun 7 | May 31 | May 24 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 24, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum
Return Of The Jitney Man |
4. | Jul 03, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum
Wry Köln |
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| 2. | Mar 11, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum
Return Of The Jitney Man |
5. | Jul 01, 2009: | Getting Over the Hump!
Katrina James |
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| 3. | Jul 24, 2009: | The Rent Party
Katrina James |
6. | Jun 20, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum: Weekend Edition
Devil's Ring Tone: The Movie |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-05-16
Reviewed 2009-05-16
JEFF “TAIN” WATTS: Watts
Dark Key Music, 2009
MODERN BOP – Hard-edged, exciting jazz from a volcanic drummer, leading an all-star quartet. Watts is an unstoppable force on the uptempo numbers, disintegrating anything that gets in his way. But this stuff really grooves, too… hold onto your hat and crank it up!
Jeff "Tain" Watts - drums
Terence Blanchard - trumpet
Branford Marsalis - saxophones
Christian McBride - bass
Lawrence Fields - piano (#4)
* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10
1. 7:03 – sinister riffs into a fierce bop jam: percolating horns, bashing drums
2. 5:36 – relaxed bluesy groove, sax blows cool & hot, tricky tempo shifts
3. 5:23 – funky New Orleans bounce, lots of horn conversation… gotta love it!
4. 5:06 – upbeat ballad with piano, soprano sax… subtle, bittersweet details
5. 9:33 – [2 FCCs in the first minute (“fuggin”). After that it’s clean, and great]
6. 6:18 – basically a long drum solo, periodically interrupted by the horns
7. 6:38 – cool walk, based on Monk’s “Trinkle Tinkle”: nifty trumpet, bass solo
8. 6:52 – political skit: a GW Bush aide phones Satan… dig his “hold” music!
9. 3:06 – drum solo rises from silence, rolls, subsides
10. 6:05 – just the music track from #8 (speedy post-bop jam)
[ Fo ] 05/16/09
Dark Key Music, 2009
MODERN BOP – Hard-edged, exciting jazz from a volcanic drummer, leading an all-star quartet. Watts is an unstoppable force on the uptempo numbers, disintegrating anything that gets in his way. But this stuff really grooves, too… hold onto your hat and crank it up!
Jeff "Tain" Watts - drums
Terence Blanchard - trumpet
Branford Marsalis - saxophones
Christian McBride - bass
Lawrence Fields - piano (#4)
* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10
1. 7:03 – sinister riffs into a fierce bop jam: percolating horns, bashing drums
2. 5:36 – relaxed bluesy groove, sax blows cool & hot, tricky tempo shifts
3. 5:23 – funky New Orleans bounce, lots of horn conversation… gotta love it!
4. 5:06 – upbeat ballad with piano, soprano sax… subtle, bittersweet details
5. 9:33 – [2 FCCs in the first minute (“fuggin”). After that it’s clean, and great]
6. 6:18 – basically a long drum solo, periodically interrupted by the horns
7. 6:38 – cool walk, based on Monk’s “Trinkle Tinkle”: nifty trumpet, bass solo
8. 6:52 – political skit: a GW Bush aide phones Satan… dig his “hold” music!
9. 3:06 – drum solo rises from silence, rolls, subsides
10. 6:05 – just the music track from #8 (speedy post-bop jam)
[ Fo ] 05/16/09
Track Listing
| 1. | Return Of The Jitney Man | 6. | Wry Köln | |||
| 2. | Brekky With Drecky | 7. | Dingle-Dangle | |||
| 3. | Katrina James | 8. | Devil's Ring Tone: The Movie | |||
| 4. | Owed... | 9. | M'buzai | |||
| 5. | Dancin' 4 Chicken | 10. | The Devil's Ring Tone |