Freddie Waits

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