Michael Blicher, Dan Hemmer and Steve Gadd – Get That Motor Runnin’ (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:49 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © C-Nut Records
Award winning saxophonist Michael Blicher, Hammond wizard Dan Hemmer and legendary drummer Steve Gadd joined forces in 2014 to celebrate their shared love for Hammond-organ soul/jazz. The band has now played more than 50 shows throughout the world and released 2 albums. Their third album will be released in november 2019. The album features U.K. vocalist, Paul Carrack (Eric Clapton, Mike & the Mechanics) on the soulfull ballad “The First ne to know”.
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Steve Gadd – Center Stage (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:27 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Leopard
For the first time, superdrummer Steve Gadd joins his friends from the “Gadd Gang” days, Eddie Gomez and Ronnie Cuber, for a production with the multiple Grammy Award-winning WDR Big Band. Under the direction of Michael Abene, the result is a fantastically grooving album centered on Steve Gadd and his friends. They are joined by guest musicians Bobby Sparks II and Simon Oslender
In January and February 2022, the recordings took place in Studio 4 of the WDR. Classics from the repertoire of the Gadd Gang can be found on Center Stage: “I Can’t Turn You Loose”, “Che Ore So'”, “Them Changes”, “Way Back Home”, “Lucky 13”, “Honky Tonk / I Can’t Stop Loving You” and “My Little Brother”. A perfect mixture of grooving songs and an excellent top-class ensemble around Steve Gadd guarantee highest entertainment value!
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Steve Gadd – Spirit of Chick Corea (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:55 minutes | 780 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Eight Islands Records
We are all blindsided and deeply saddened by the passing of Chick Corea. One of his longtime collaborators, from his early fusion years up until the very end, is drummer Steve Gadd.
Back in 2019 at the Montreal Jazz Festival, I briefly interviewed Gadd about the time he briefly played in Return to Forever. We listen to that bootleg, along with his reflection on Corea not as a pianist, but as a drummer. He says hearing Chick play the drums in the late 1960s unlocked his own playing on one particular night. “His approach and what he did was so free. Here’s a piano player playing the drums in a way that I never thought of. My playing changed that night. Overnight. It sort of cleared some things up for me.”
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