Jazz Articles about Steve Gadd

Cinque: Catch a Corner

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 17, 2012

Catch a Corner raccoglie in otto tracce la tecnica, l'esperienza e l'alto valore espressivo di cinque grandi musicisti, capaci di produrre musica di ottimo livello qualititativo, di derivazione mainstream. Tra di loro il saxofonista John Johnson, in forma olimpica e capace di imprimere soli dal carattere deciso, al quale si affianca in prima linea l'organo Hammond del sempre puntuale Joey DeFrancesco, ben amalgamato con il piano di Robi Botos, che alterna strumento acustico ed elettrico, a seconda delle atmosfere e ...

Stanley Clarke: The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection

by John Kelman
February 29, 2012

Legacy Recordings' recent spate of Complete Albums Collection box sets have righted a whole slew of wrongs by bringing long out-of-print recordings back in a reasonably priced and tidily collected series. They may be relatively light on production values--simple clamshell-style boxes, mini-LP cardboard sleeves, and booklets whose information, beyond detailed track and personnel listings, is largely dependent upon how much the artist has to say, if anything at all--but the opportunity to collect an entire discography from a specific period ...

Jim Hall: Concierto

by John Kelman
February 3, 2011

Amongst the many CTI classics of the 1970s, few stand the test of time as well as guitarist Jim Hall's Concierto, an ambitious album that, in its original form, married one side of modern mainstream with a second taken up by a 19-minute version of Joaquin Rodrigo's 1939 piece for classical guitar and orchestra, “Concierto de Aranjuez." That Miles Davis and Gil Evans had already delivered what was considered the definitive jazz adaptation on the trumpeter's 1960 classic, Sketches of ...

Chick Corea / Steve Gadd / Christian McBride: Super Trio

by John Kelman
May 1, 2006

He may be in his mid-sixties, but pianist Chick Corea hasn't slowed down in the least. In the past five years there's been a monumental three-week run at New York's Blue Note, focusing a bright light on acoustic ensembles past and present and beautifully documented on the ten-DVD set Rendezvous in New York (Image Entertainment, 2005). Corea re-formed his powerhouse Elektric Band for an album--To the Stars (Stretch, 2004)--and tour. He reunited with members of Paco de Lucia's band for ...

American Drummers Achievement Award: Honoring Steve Gadd

by John Kelman
November 16, 2004

Steve Gadd American Drummers Achivement Awards: Honoring Steve Gadd Hudson Music 2004

One would be hard-pressed to find a drummer who has been as widely-recorded and as widely-varied, style-wise, as Steve Gadd. Sure, there are drummers out there who are as readily recognizable - in jazz Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, Tony Williams and Max Roach, to name four, come to mind - but one would be challenged to identify many drummers who have created ...