Real name: Benjamin Waters

Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 1999

American jazz saxophonist (tenor, soprano, alto) and clarinetist, born January 23, 1902 in Brighton (Baltimore), Maryland, died August 11, 1998 in Columbia, Maryland.
Waters worked with Charlie Miller (1918-1921), Charlie Johnson (1926-1931), King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Claude Hopkins, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Carter, Hot Lips Page (1938, 1941), Jimmie Lunceford (1942), Jimmy Archey (from 1949) and others.
Lived in Paris from 1952 to 1992.