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1980's...
Steve's career
was literally in overdrive, doing Paul
Simon's One
Trick Pony movie
and then Grover Washington's excellent Live
At The Tower Theatre video. Recordings
with Weather Report,
The Bee Gee's, Manhattan
Transfer, Al Jarreau and
Rickie
Lee Jones continued at a staggering
rate.
Paul Simon One Trick Pony (1980) |
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Richard Tee & Steve Gadd |
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Richard Tee & Steve Gadd - Take The A Train (1988) |
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Steve Gadd *Photo by Will Lee
Steve Gadd In Session (DVD) |
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By 1981, Steve had recorded over 25 gold records
artists who
had sold over half a million copies. 1982 found Steve recording
his first solo effort in Japan, Gadd-About for
the King label. Also
that year was the Simon and Garfunkel's Concert
In Central Park.
1983 with Rob Wallis and Paul
Siegel, Steve makes the
first instructional drum video, Up
Close a must
in any drummers library.
Steve Gadd Gaddabout (1982)
Gomez, Gadd,
& Dalto 1984
Recording In
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Eihiko & Gadd
1984: Past president
of Yamaha drum factory |
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Steve's relationship with Yamaha Drums also saw several
of Steve's ideas
become the norm, stand mounted
floor toms
and smaller toms in general.
Hagi and
Steve Gadd 7.3.1980 |
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Steve Gadd & Chuck Mangione, Earthquake Relief Concert Dec. 1980 |
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Tom Scott, BJ, Steve Gadd & Ralph MacDonald at rehearsal for
All Around the Town-- Carnegie Hall concert 1981
*Photo from Bob James' MySpace |
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Richard, Barry Gibb, & Steve Gadd |
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Recordings with Frank
Sinatra, Dave Grusin, Michael
McDonald,
Larry Carlton, Lee
Ritenour and many more continue his
demanding studio career.
Steve did 2 albums with Paul McCartney:
In February 1981, two months after Lennon's death, Paul McCartney resumed his sessions, recording that month with Steve Gadd,
Stevie Wonder, Stanley Clarke, Carl Perkins and Ringo Starr and
laying down several songs in the process. Ex-10cc guitarist Eric
Stewart also became a frequent collaborator of McCartney's during
this era. Further sessions that summer were also undertaken at
George Martin's AIR studios at Oxford Street, London with the
producer manning the controls and giving McCartney's music the
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Paul McCartney Tug of War (1982) |
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Paul McCartney Pipes of Peace (1983) |
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The sessions were so productive that several of its tracks would
be held over for the next album, Pipes of Peace, which followed
in 1983. The rest of 1981 would be spent in a quiet fashion,
with McCartney and Martin touching up the album and perfecting it.
Gadd & McCartney recording in 1982 |
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Steve's
sound was a signature that still to this
day is a voice,
many attempted to copy
but the groove was another thing.
1988 Steve formed his own group, The
Gadd Gang
with Richard Tee, Eddie
Gomez, Conell Dupree and
Ronnie
Cuber. They recorded two
records for
Columbia
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one self titled and the other Here
And Now.
Here and Now (1988)
Live at the Bottom Line (1988) |
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Kimiko Itoh |
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Steve returns
back to his home of Rochester, N.Y.
in 1988.
Steve evens stretches out and produces two recordings for
Japanese vocalist Kimiko
Itoh.
Kimiko Itoh is a Japanese singer. She was born on the
island of Shōdoshima in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Swing Journal voted Kimiko Number 1
female vocalist in 1988–1996.
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