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Jeff "Tain" Watts
aka Jeffrey “Tain” Watts
Pittsburgh, United States
Jeff "Tain" Watts is credited on 561 releases across 150 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1981–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
561
Pressings credited
150
Albums
5
Decades active
77
In collections
Credited work
561 releases · 150 albums · active 1981–2024
- Performance · 766
- Other credits · 31
- Production · 3
Studios: RCA Studio A · CBS Studios, New York · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · RCA Studios, New York
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Black Codes (From The Underground)
1985

Hot House Flowers
1984

Milt Jackson With John Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke, Lou Donaldson And The Thelonious Monk Quintet
1955

Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1
1987

Wynton Marsalis
1982

Men In Black (The Album)
1997

Music From The Motion Picture "When Harry Met Sally..."
1989

J Mood
1986

God Rest Ye Merry, Jazzmen
1981

A Brighter Day
2000

Stolen Moments (Red Hot + Cool)
1994

Buckshot LeFonque
1994

Standard Time Vol.2 - Intimacy Calling
1991

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
1991

Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years
1997

Verve - Next Generation Volume 1
1995

I Heard You Twice The First Time
1992

Thick In The South (Soul Gestures In Southern Blue, Vol. 1)
1991

Music From Mo' Better Blues
1990

The Vision's Tale
1989

Royal Garden Blues
1986

Tokyo Dating
1985

Jingle Bell Jazz
1985

Quartet
2007
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Wynton Marsalis
- Branford Marsalis Quartet
- Branford Marsalis
- Paul Bollenback
- McCoy Tyner
- Charles Fambrough
- Courtney Pine
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