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Chick Corea recently commented,
"Every drummer wants to play like Gadd because he plays perfect... He has brought orchestral and compositional thinking to the drum kit
while at the same time having a great imagination and a great ability to swing."
The 1970's found Steve Gadd was the most in-demand session and live performance player and
without a doubt the most imitated drummer in the world. In Japan transcriptions of his
solos were on sale, and all the leading Japanese drummers were sounding like him.
Steve Gadd has played on some of the most important (in the author's
opinion) jazz/fusion/rock recordings and concerts ever produced including
- Chick Corea
- Leprechaun (1975, Polydor)
- Friends (1978, Polydor)
- Three Quartets (1981)
- Eric Clapton
- Live at Hyde Park (1996, concert)
- Riding with the King (2000, Reprise) with Eric Clapton and B.B. King
- Stuff (WEA/WARNER BROTHERS)
- Stuff (1976)
- More Stuff (1977)
- Stuff It (1978)
- Live Stuff (1978)
- Live In New York (1980)
- Made In America - A Remembrance Of Richard Tee (1993)
- Steely Dan (UNI/MCA)
- Aja (1977)
- Gaucho (1980)
- Citizen Steely Dan (1993) with Steely Dan
- Steps
- Steps Live (1973)
- Step By Step (1980)
- Smoking In The Pit (1980)
- Paul Simon
- Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)
- One Trick Pony (1980 Movie, Video)
- The Concert In Central Park (1982)
- Graceland (1986)
- Concert In Central Park (1991,Video)
- MTV's "Paul Simon Unplugged" (1992, Video)
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