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COREA / GADD / MCBRIDE - SUPER TRIO (LIVE AT THE ONE WORLD THEATRE, APRIL 3RD, 2005)

Happy birthday to Steve Gadd!

Steve Gadd Band – Gadditude

Gadditude is a 2013 jazz fusion album by the Steve Gadd Band, featuring a core group of musicians who also formed the touring band for James Taylor. The album is noted for blending genres like soul, jazz, funk, and 1970s fusion, with a focus on collective grooves and feel over individual showmanship. Reviewers praised the album’s relaxed feel, borne from the musicians’ familiarity with each other as James Taylor’s touring band. Critics noted that while Gadd doesn’t deliver extensive solos, his drumming provides the strong rhythmic foundations and grooves that support the music. The band’s ability to convincingly bend genres and incorporate diverse styles, such as a country-infused rendition of Keith Jarrett’s “Country” and a re-imagining of Radiohead’s “Scatterbrain” as a jazz standard, was also highlighted.

Steve Gadd – Gaddabout

The Gaddabouts is the first album by The Gaddabouts, released in January 2011. The band consists of Edie Brickell, drummer Steve Gadd, guitarist Andy Fairweather Low and bass player Pino Palladino.

The band: Edie Brickell – vocals, guitar Steve Gadd – drums, percussion Andy Fairweather Low – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar Pino Palladino – bass, guitar

Mark Colby – Serpentine Fire

A cigarette and a screw, these are the respective images that confront us with Serpentine Fire and One Good Turn. These are images photographed by Buddy Endress placed in designs by Paula Scher, originally released on Tappan Zee, a label centred around an ensemble of musicians under the direction of Bob James during the late 70s, early 80s heyday of jazz-fusion. The sound is rooted in the Fender Rhodes playing of Bob James, and is a more polished variation of a style born a few years earlier at CTI Records. However it was both defined and immortalised on Tappan Zee in 1978 on Bob’s theme to the TV series Taxi. It was the same year Mark Colby arrived at the label with Serpentine Fire. Both this debut and One Good Turn were produced by another name with a TV theme connection, Jay Chattaway. Mark is from New York, born in Brooklyn into a musical family. He took to the saxophone via the clarinet and began playing professionally on sessions with artists including Wilson Pickett and The Bee Gees. It was Maynard Ferguson who brought Mark back to New York to feature in his band, and at Columbia Records he met Bob James and that takes us to the start of his time at Tappan Zee.

Remembering Maestro Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021)

The Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band – Chinese Butterfly

Chinese Butterfly is a double album by keyboardist Chick Corea and drummer Steve Gadd. The band is rounded out by saxophonist/flautist Steve Wilson, guitarist Lionel Loueke and bassist Carlitos del Puerto.

The Allmusic review by Matt Collar awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: “With both Corea and Gadd in their seventies at the time of recording, it’s refreshing to hear them sound so inventive and willing to explore new songs, even as they look back on their over 50-year partnership. Ultimately, it’s that vibrant, in-the-moment reciprocity that makes Chinese Butterfly such a compelling listen.”

The Gadd Gang – The Gadd Gang

Happy birthday to one of the most influential drummers of our time, the legendary Steve Gadd!