| Freddie Waits | |
| Background: | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth Date: | 27 April 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Death Place: | New York City, U.S. |
| Instrument: | Drums |
Frederick Douglas Waits (April 27, 1943 – November 18, 1989) was an American hard bop and post-bop drummer.
Waits never officially recorded as leader, but was a prominent member and composer in Max Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble. He worked as sideman with such pianists as McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, Andrew Hill, Gene Harris, Billy Taylor and Joe Zawinul. In 1967, Waits recorded with Freddie Hubbard. He was a member of the last Lee Morgan Quintet, an association ended by Morgan's murder in 1972.
In the late 1970s, Waits formed Colloquium III with fellow drummers Horace Arnold and Billy Hart. In the 1980s he became a music faculty member of Rutgers University. He died of pneumonia and kidney failure in New York in 1989.[1]
His son is the drummer Nasheet Waits.[2]
With Roy Ayers
With Kenny Barron
With Gary Bartz
With Willie Bobo
With Ray Bryant
With Kenny Burrell
With Donald Byrd
With Stanley Cowell
With Richard Davis
With Jack DeJohnette
With Bill Dixon
With Teddy Edwards
With Ricky Ford
With Curtis Fuller
With Bunky Green
With Tiny Grimes
With Gene Harris
With Andrew Hill
With Buck Hill
With Johnny Hodges
With Freddie Hubbard
With Willis Jackson
With Clifford Jordan
With Hubert Laws
With Junior Mance
With M'Boom
With Charles McPherson
With Mulgrew Miller and Reggie Workman
With James Moody
With Lee Morgan
With Don Patterson
With Pharoah Sanders
With Shirley Scott
With Buddy Terry
With McCoy Tyner
With Joe Zawinul
With Denny Zeitlin