Freddie Waits

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Freddie Waits, 52nd Street Jazz Fair, July 6, 1976 New York City

Freddie Waits (born Frederick Douglas Waits on April 27, 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi; died November 18, 1989 in New York City) was a hard bop and post-bop drummer and member of Max Roach's M'Boom percussion orchestra. He also did work with McCoy Tyner for a couple of years^[1] and can be heard on track 2 of Pharoah Sanders's Karma, album.

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Freddie was born in 1940. Go to his son's web site http://www.nasheetwaits.com/ JHM.

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