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1960's...
Steve played
drum corps with the Rochester
Crusaders,
winning
numerous awards, toured Europe with the
Band
of Americas, a group of top notch
high school
musicians, Graduates from Eastridge
High School
and goes onto the Manhattan
School of
Music and
finishes up back at Eastman
School of Music with
John Beck. Senior Recital
on February 16th 1968
at Kilbourn
Hall standing
room only.
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Count Basie and Steve Gadd - 1961 |
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Steve and friends 1961 |
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Steve enrolled in the US Army spending
3 years being
all he could be playing drums
with their Field Band and
Stage Band. Plenty
of playing locally with both Chuck
and Gap
Mangione, including Chuck's Friends and Love
and Gap's Diana In The Autumn Wind.
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Steve Gadd - 1968 |
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School
Band of America:This is to
certify
that Stephen
Gadd is a charter member
of the School Band of America and
has participated in the 1961 European
Concert Tour. |
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Steve goofing around with high school buddies, 1963 |
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Steve
with high school buddies, 1963 |
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Upon
graduation from
Eastridge
High School
continued his studies
first at
the Manhattan School of Music and then returned
to The
Eastman
School
and
his teacher John Beck. During
this time he
was working sometimes 6 nights
a week, with both Chuck and Gap
Mangione. He also played
with show bands backing up acts such
as Pat
Cooper, regularly he would be asked
to go out on the road
but stayed home to finish
his studies. It was at Eastman that
his friendship with Tony
Levin began, they
worked together constantly playing in Gap
Mangione's trio.
Another important relationship began
with Chick
Corea around 1965 while playing
with Chuck Mangione,
Joe
Romano and the great
bass player Frank Pullara,
while working
at a club called the "Midnighter" Chick and Steve got
together to
discuss drumming and what was happening
in groups like Miles
Davis's quintet with Tony
Williams. The very
next weekend Steve
had a brand
new kit and had opened up his playing,
letting
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Gadd & Levin - Eastman |
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After
graduating from Eastman, Steve spent
three years serving his country,
playing drums
with the U.S.
Army Stage Band.
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Specialist 5 Stephen Gadd, drummer with the United States
Army Field Band of Washington,
D.C., photographed in the
Pentagon. U.S.
Army photo by Oscar Porter. |
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Steve Gadd sitting
in at The Pythod 1968 |
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