Freddie Waits

Instruments Drums Name Freddie Waits		Role Musical Artist Albums We Three, Persia My Dear

Born April 27, 1940 Jackson, Mississippi (1940-04-27) Died November 18, 1989, New York City, New York, United States Genres Jazz, Avant-garde jazz, Bebop, Hard bop Similar People Richard Davis, Stanley Cowell, Roland Hanna, Buster Williams, Duke Pearson

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

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As sideman
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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.

His son is the drummer Nasheet Waits.

As sideman

With M'Boom

Re: Percussion (Strata-East, 1973)

M'Boom (Columbia, 1979)

Collage (Soul Note, 1984)

With Roy Ayers

Daddy Bug (Atlantic, 1969)

With Kenny Barron

You Had Better Listen (Atlantic, 1967) with Jimmy Owens

Sunset to Dawn (Muse, 1973)

Autumn in New York (Uptown, 1984)

With Gary Bartz

Another Earth (Milestone, 1969)

With Willie Bobo

A New Dimension (Verve, 1968)

With Kenny Burrell

Night Song (Verve, 1969)

With Donald Byrd

Mustang! (Blue Note, 1966)

With Stanley Cowell

We Three (DIW, 1987)

With Richard Davis

Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Muse, 1972)

Dealin' (Muse, 1973)

Harvest (Muse, 1977 [1979])

Persia My Dear (DIW, 1987)

With Jack DeJohnette

The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album (Landmark, 1985)

With Bill Dixon

Bill Dixon in Italy Volume One (Soul Note, 1980)

Bill Dixon in Italy Volume Two (Soul Note, 1980)

With Teddy Edwards

The Inimitable Teddy Edwards (Xanadu, 1974)

With Tiny Grimes

Profoundly Blue (Muse, 1973)

With Gene Harris

Gene Harris of the Three Sounds (1972)

With Andrew Hill

Grass Roots (Blue Note, 1968)

Mosaic Select 16: Andrew Hill (Mosaic, 1969)

Lift Every Voice (Blue Note, 1969)

Strange Serenade (Soul Note, 1980)

With Johnny Hodges

Rippin' & Runnin' (Verve, 1968)

With Richard "Groove" Holmes

Soul Mist! (Prestige, 1966 [1970])

With Freddie Hubbard

High Blues Pressure (Atlantic, 1967)

With Willis Jackson

West Africa (Muse, 1973)

Headed and Gutted (Muse, 1974)

With Clifford Jordan

Hello, Hank Jones (Eastworld, 1978)

With Hubert Laws

Afro-Classic (CTI, 1970)

Carnegie Hall (CTI, 1973)

With Junior Mance

I Believe to My Soul (Atlantic, 1968)

With Charles McPherson

New Horizons (Xanadu, 1977)

With René McLean

Watch Out (SteepleChase, 1975)

With James Moody

The Blues and Other Colors (Milestone, 1969)

Feelin' It Together (Muse, 1973)

With Lee Morgan

The Last Session (Blue Note, 1971)

With Don Patterson

The Return of Don Patterson (Muse, 1972)

With Pharoah Sanders

Karma (Impulse!)

With Shirley Scott

Mystical Lady (Cadet, 1971)

With Buddy Terry

Electric Soul! (Prestige, 1967)

With McCoy Tyner

Time for Tyner (Blue Note, 1968)

Expansions (Blue Note, 1968)

Cosmos (Blue Note, 1977)

With Joe Zawinul

The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream (Vortex, 1968)

With Curtis Fuller

Fire and Filigree (Bee Hive, 1978)

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Freddie Waits Wikipedia

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As sideman

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