All About Jazz Interviews Jeff “Tain” Watts
January 26, 2009 in Artists, Books/Mags/Web, Interviews by Dave Kropf
Source: All About Jazz
All About Jazz: Let’s start with what everybody wants to know. How did you get the nickname “Tain”?
Jeff “Tain” Watts: Oh, Lord [laughing]. [Pianist] Kenny Kirkland gave me the name. I was playing with Wynton around 1983 and we were driving from West Palm Beach to Miami and Kenny passed a gas station called Chieftain Gas with a symbol of an Indian with a headdress and he said, “Chief Tain, you’re going to be Jeff ‘Tain,’” and I said, “No I’m not,” but then I could not avoid it.
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