Nasheet Waits is an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 musician who plays drum set.

Son of legendary percussionist Freddie Waits

Freddie Waits

Freddie Douglas Waits was a hard bop and post-bop drummer.He was a member of Max Roach's M'Boom percussion orchestra....

; Nasheet is a New York native who has been active on the jazz scene since early in his life. Before pursuing a music career, he studied psychology

Psychology

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 and history

History

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 at Morehouse College

Morehouse College

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 in Atlanta. Nasheet also holds a degree from Long Island University

Long Island University

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 in music. While studying at L.I.U, instructor Michael Carvln secured Waits a spot in the percussion ensemble M'Boom

M'Boom

M'Boom was an American jazz percussion ensemble founded in 1970 and led by Max Roach. Although originally a sextet in 1970 over the years the group had as many as ten members in the ensemble but the core of Roy Brooks, Joe Chambers, Omar Clay, Max Roach, Warren Smith and Freddie Waits appear on...

, started by drummer Max Roach

Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history...

 in 1970. Waits has recorded or performed with a myriad of talented musicians including Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch

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, Antonio Hart

Antonio Hart

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, Joe Lovano

Joe Lovano

Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls...

, Jason Moran

Jason Moran (musician)

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, Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...

, Bunky Green

Bunky Green

Bunky Green is an American jazz alto saxophonist and educator.-Biography:Vernice "Bunky" Green was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he played the alto saxophone, mainly at a local club called "The Brass Rail."...

, William Parker

William Parker

-Sportsmen:* Tony Parker, William Anthony Parker II, , Belgian basketball player* Smush Parker , American basketball player* Sir William Parker, 3rd Baronet , British rower and Olympic medalist*Will Parker, rugby union player...

, Eddie Gomez

Eddie Gomez

Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...

, Casimir Liberski

Casimir Liberski

Casimir Liberski is a Belgian jazz musician who plays piano and electric keyboard.Casimir has been active on the European Jazz scene since his early teens, touring much of France and his native Belgium with his trio while still finishing high school in Brussels...

, John Medeski

John Medeski

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, and Mark Turner

Mark Turner

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. Waits currently resides in New York City

New York City

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Selected Discography

• The Fred Hersch Trio Night and The Music almetto (2007)
• Eddie Gomez Trio, Palermo, Jazzeyes (2007)
• Luis Perdomo, Awareness, RKM Music (2007
• Jason Moran, Artist in Residence, Blue Note (2007)
• Bunky Green, Another Place, Label Bleu (2006)
• Jason Moran, Same Mother, Blue Note (2005)
• Steve Davis, Meant To Be, Criss Cross (2004)
• Antonio Hart, All We Need, Downtown (2004)
• Jason Moran , The Bandwagon, Blue Note (2003)
• Bojan Z, Transpacifik, Label Blue (2003)
• Andrew Hill
  Andrew Hill
  Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...
  
  , A Beautiful Day
  A Beautiful Day
  A Beautiful Day is a live album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill recorded in 2002 at Birdland in New York City and released on the Palmetto label.-Reception:...
  
  , Palmetto
  Palmetto Records
  Palmetto Records is an independent American jazz record label founded in 1990 by Matt Balitsaris. -Artists:*Ben Allison*Lili Anel*Matt Wilson*Fred Hersch*Ted Nash*Bill Mays*Larry Goldings*David Berkman*Dr...
  
  (2002)
• Turner, Dharma Days, Warner Bros. (2001)
• Jason Moran, Black Stars, Blue Note (2001)
• Orrin Evans, Blessed Ones, Criss Cross (2001)
• Anthony Wonsey, Open the Gates, Criss Cross (1999)
• Antonio Hart, For Cannonball and Woody, RCA/Novus (1993)

Nasheet Waits like many of his jazz contemporaries before him, has secured a working nickname within the industry: Nasheet "Heavy" Waits.

External links

• http://www.nasheetwaits.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywyo6ZXrdXM