Freddie Waits

Freddie Waits
Freddie Waits, 52nd Street Jazz Fair, July 6, 1976 New York City Photo by Tom Marcello
Background information
Genres	Jazz Avant-garde jazz Bebop Hard Bop
Occupations	Bandleader, composer, sideman
Instruments	Drums

Freddie Douglas Waits (born April 27, 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi; died November 18, 1989 in New York City) was a hard bop and post-bop drummer.

He was a member of Max Roach's M'Boom percussion orchestra.

He also did work with McCoy Tyner for a couple of years in the late 1960s, as well as Andrew Hill

His son is the drummer Nasheet Waits.

Discography

As sideman

With M'Boom

• Re: Percussion (Strata-East, 1973)
• M'Boom (Columbia, 1979)
• Collage (Soul Note, 1984)
• Live at S.O.B.'s New York (Blue Moon, 1992)

With Donald Byrd

• Mustang! (Blue Note, 1966)

With Jack DeJohnette

• The Jack DeJohnette Piano Album (Landmark, 1985)

With Gene Harris

• Gene Harris of the Three Sounds (1972)

With Andrew Hill

• Grass Roots (Blue Note, 1968)
• Lift Every Voice (Blue Note, 1969)
• Strange Serenade (Soul Note, 1980)

With Freddie Hubbard

• High Blues Pressure (Atlantic, 1967)

With Hubert Laws

• Afro-Classic (CTI, 1970)
• Carnegie Hall (CTI, 1973)

With Lee Morgan

• The Last Session (1971)

With Pharoah Sanders

• Karma

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)