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He formed his own Gadd Gang in 1991 and remained a busy session drummer through the '90s, recording with the likes of James Taylor, Steely Dan, Ray Charles, Carly Simon, Barry Manilow, Karen Carpenter, Al Jarreau, Tania Maria, Eric Clapton and Iron Maiden. He also returned to his jazz roots in 1998 in a quintet featuring pianist Michel Petrucciani and bassist Anthony Jackson. Together they recorded Both Worlds and Live In Tokyo for the Dreyfus label. At the end of 2001, Gadd reunited with Corea, tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker and bassist Eddie Gomez for Chick's 60th birthday bash at the Blue Note in New York, reprising material from their 1981 Three Quartets recording. Their reunion was documented on both CD and DVD and released in 2003 as Rendezvous In New York. In 2002, Gadd was presented with an award from the Drummer's Collective in recognition of his unique contribution to drumming and music. The following year he received Zildjian's American Drummers Achievement Award in recognition of his ongoing contribution to both drumming and music over the last thirty years. Steve Gadd on the web
Born in rural Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Colaiuta began drumming lessons at age fourteen and in 1974 enrolled at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. After graduating in 1975, he hung around Boston for a few years, playing in various local bands, before moving to Los Angeles in January, 1978. Shortly after relocating to the West Coast, Colaiuta auditioned for the coveted drumming chair in Frank Zappa's band. He was hired in 1979 and remained with Zappa for two and a half years, appearing on such landmark recordings as Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Man From Utopia, You Are What You Is and Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar. Vinnie left Zappa's band in 1981 to focus on a career as a studio session drummer. He quickly became a first-call player on the studio scene through the '80s, recording pop sessions for Joni Mitchell, Gino Vanelli, Judy Collins, Madonna, Ray Charles, Peter Allen, Barbara Streisand, Olivia Newton-John, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, The Temptations, Leonard Cohen and Billy Joel. On the jazz side he recorded with David Sanborn, Tom Scott, Allan Holdsworth, The Rippingtons and Frank Gambale during the '80s.  From December of 1990 through the summer of 1997, Colaiuta was a member of Sting's touring band, appearing on 1993's Ten Summoner's Tales and Mercury Falling in 1996. During his tenure with Sting, he recorded his first album as a leader, the self-titled Vinnie Colaiuta on Chick Corea's Stretch imprint, and also did sessions with John McLaughlin, Bill Evans, Ricky Martin, Celine Dion, Sergio Mendes, Bette Midler, B.B. King and Diane Schurr, and Jewel. In 1999, he played on Sting's Brand New Day.
Since 2000, the in-demand session player has recorded with Steely Dan, Asia, Marcus Miller, Chris Botti, Al Kooper, Richard Bona, Mike Stern, Stevie Nicks, Bob James, Gato Barbieri, LeAnne Rimes, Stanley Clarke and Clay Aiken. In the past few years, he has recorded with the cooperative group Jing Chi (featuring guitarist Robben Ford, bassist Jimmy Haslip and keyboardist Otmaro Ruiz) and most recently appears with bassist Brian Bromberg on Wood II. Vinnie Colaiuta on the web
Born on August 5, 1941 in the small village of Itaiopolis in South Brazil and raised in Curitiba, Moreira became a professional musician at age thirteen, playing percussion, drums and singing in local dance bands. He moved to Sao Paulo at age sixteen and performed regularly in nightclubs and on television as a percussionist, drummer and singer. In 1965, he met the singer Flora Purim in Rio de Janeiro. The two married and in 1968 they relocated to New York City, where Airto began playing with American jazz musicians such as bassist Reggie Workman, trombonist J.J. Johnson, pianist Cedar Walton and bassist Walter Booker. He began working with Miles Davis in 1969, which led to his appearance on such groundbreaking recordings as Bitches Brew, Live/Evil and On The Corner. In the summer of 1970, Airto would perform with Miles's band before 600,000 people at the Isle of Wight Festival in the U.K. (captured on Murray Lerner's excellent documentary film A Different Kind of Blue, which was released in 2004).
Moreira's own release as a leader in 1972, Free, included his RTF bandmates Corea, Farrell and Purim as well as pianist Keith Jarrett and CTI labelmates George Benson on guitar and Hubert Laws on flute. He subsequently worked on studio sessions with the likes of Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Deodato, George Duke, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, Gil Evans, Gato Barbieri, Michael Brecker, The Crusaders, Chicago, and many others as well as contributing to movie soundtracks for The Exorcist, Last Tango in Paris, King of the Gypsies and Apocalypse Now. Moreira continued to record as a leader for CTI through the '70s and in the '80s relocated to California, where he established a lasting relationship with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, who featured Airto as one of the master drummers from around the world in the Grammy-award winning all-star percussion ensemble Planet Drum, which also included master conga player Giovanni Hidalgo, tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, African drumming master Babatunde Olatunji and South Indian ghatam master Vikku Vinayakram. A perennial Down Beat poll winner and universally recognized as a living master of percussion, Airto has recorded for a variety of labels as a leader since the '90s, most recently 2003's Life After That for Narada Jazz. In 2005, he was reunited with Corea on Chick's world-music-influenced The Ultimate Adventure. Airto Moreira on the web
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Born on November 10, 1939, in Houston, Texas, the internationally renowned flutist is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered the genres of jazz, pop, and rhythm and blues; moving effortlessly from one repertory to another. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta as well as with the orchestras of Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Cleveland, Amsterdam, Japan, Detroit and with the Stanford String Quartet. He has given annual performances at Carnegie Hall, and has performed sold-out performances in the Hollywood Bowl with fellow flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal and was also a member of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His own recordings as a leader, which total twenty to date, have won three Grammy nominations.  A member of the early Jazz Crusaders while still in Texas (1954—1960), Laws came to New York on a scholarship to the Juilliard School of music, where he studied with the renowned flutist Julius Baker. In New York, he worked with such jazz artists as Benny Golson, Jim Hall, James Moody and Clark Terry before cutting his own recordings as a leader from 1964-1966 for Atlantic. His first for the label, The Laws of Jazz, featured one Armando Corea on piano (before he became known as Chick). A subsequent stint with CTI records (1972-1976) significantly increased Laws's profile and yielded such gems as 1971's ambitious The Rite of Spring (his jazzy twist on Debussy, Faure, Bach and Stravinsky) and 1974's In The Beginning (featuring drummer Gadd alongside bassist Ron Carter, guitarist Gene Bertoncini, keyboardist Bob James and Hubert's brother Ronnie Laws on tenor sax).
Throughout his career, Laws has done collaborative projects with Quincy Jones, Bob James, Earl Klugh and Claude Bolling, has written music for Neil Simon's comedy California Suite and did film scores for The Wiz, The Color Purple and A Hero Ain't Nothing but a Sandwich. As a ubiquitous session player, Laws has recorded tracks with such artists as Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Freddie Hubbard, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Sergio Mendes, Bob James, Carly Simon, Clark Terry and Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. His most recent recording as a leader was 2004's Moondance on the Savoy Jazz label. Hubert Laws on the web
Tim Garland — Tenor Sax/Bass Clarinet  In 1998, Garland recorded Enter the Fire for the Linn label. Upon hearing that record, Corea invited the gifted composer and multi-instrumentalist to join his touring Origin band the following year. That invitation led to Garland's second recording as a leader, for Corea's Stretch label in 2000 Made By Walking. His playing with Origin was documented on Rendevous in New York, a live recording documenting Chick's 60th birthday celebration at the Blue Note nightclub in New York, which was later released in 2003.
In 2001, Garland formed the Storms/Nocturnes trio with pianist Geoff Keezer and vibist Joe Locke. They recorded their self-titled debut that year for Sirocco Jazz and followed in 2002 with Rising Tide. Garland joined Bill Bruford's Earthworks in 2002 and subsequently appeared on 2004's Random Acts of Happiness. For the last three years, he has also had a weekly residency at the Pizza Express in London with his little big band, the Dean Street Underground Orchestra. Garland's latest collaboration with Bruford is an expanded ensemble known as the Earthworks Underground Orchestra, a marriage of Garland's nine-piece band and Bruford's repertoire. Their week-long engagement in December, 2004, at the Iridium nightclub in New York was recorded and recently released on Bruford's Summerfold label. Garland is currently Composer-In-Residence at Newcastle University. His most recent recording as a leader is 2005's If The Sea Replied on Sirocco Jazz. Tim Garland on the web
Born on December 22, 1958, in Canberra, Australia, Gambale was influenced early on by the guitar playing of rockers Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia. In his mid-teens he discovered Steely Dan, The Brecker Brothers and Chick Corea, which pointed him in a jazzy direction. In 1982, at age twenty-three, he decided to leave his home to study at the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Hollywood. He graduated with the highest honor, Student of the Year, and was offered a teaching position which he kept for four years. During that time he was playing the local jazz club circuit with his own band and already had his first book Speed Picking published. In 1986 he signed a three-album deal with the small, independent Legato Records label and began his recording career. That same year he was recruited by Jean-luc Ponty for a short tour and  subsequently auditioned for Chick Corea's Elektric Band as a replacement in the group for guitarist Scott Henderson. Gambale was hired, remaining with the Elektric Band for six years, during which time the band recorded five albums and garnered two Grammy nominations, winning one.
In 1992, Gambale left the Elektric Band to tour and record as a leader in his own right. The following year he joined the ranks of Vital Information (Steve Smith on drums, Baron Browne on bass, Tom Coster on keyboards). He remains a member of that premier fusion band to this day and has recorded six albums with that Vital lineup. An off-shoot of that group is a raucous power trio project known as GHS, featuring drummer Smith and bassist Stu Hamm. They have released three recordings as a unit -- 1999's Show Me What You Can Do, 2000's The Light Beyond and GHS3 in 2002(all on Tone Center Records). Corea reunited the original Elektric Band in 2002, kicking off a triumphant tour on August 28 with a sold-out performance at the Hollywood Bowl. The group subsequently went into the studio to record To The Stars, which was released in 2004. Gambale recently formed his own Wombat Records, which has reissued his entire Legato Records catalog while also releasing such new recordings as 2000's Imagery Suite, an acoustic guitar duet with Italian classical guitarist Maurizio Colonna, 2004's power trio offering Raison D'etre with drummer Billy Cobham and bassists Ric Fierabracci and Steve Billman, and 2006's acoustic jazz trio project Natural High with bassist Alain Caron and keyboardist Otmaro Ruiz. Frank Gambale on the web
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In 1976, Gadd became a charter member of the popular New York group Stuff, which included keyboardist Richard Tee, bassist Gordon Edwards, guitarists Cornell Dupree and Eric Gale and saxophonist Chris Parker. In the '80s, he worked with fusion guitar hero Al Di Meola, saxophonists Grover Washington, Jr., and Dave Liebman, jazz singers Al Jarreau and Nancy Wilson, as well as doing sessions with pop superstars like Paul McCartney and Barbara Streisand and the godfather of soul, James Brown. He was the drummer of choice for Simon & Garfunkel's 1982 reunion in Central Park and also played on Frank Sinatra's 1984 recording, L.A. Is My Lady. That year also saw the release of his debut as a leader, Gadd About. In 1986, Gadd joined the Manhattan Jazz Quintet whose ranks included trumpeter Lew Soloff, pianist Dave Matthews, saxophonist George Young and bassist Eddie Gomez.
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