Dave Weckl

   
Artist: Dave Weckl

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Discography:


   
 Live in Gualdo (cd2)

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Tracks: 4


   
 Live in Gualdo (cd1)

   Year:    
Tracks: 5

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Dave Weckl is one of fusion's nearly acclaimed drummers, making his name during a six-year-stint with Chick Corea. Weckl was born in St. Louis and grew up listening to psyche and jazz; he received his first brake drum sic at age octonary and developed his playing by hearing to drummers like Buddy Rich, as well as R&B grooves. He majored in malarky at the University of Bridgeport, simply left after two years to become tangled in the New York malarky scene, also touring Europe with diverse bands. Weckl joined a fusion radical called Nitesprite, where he attracted the attention of drummer Peter Erskine; Erskine helped him have a gig with French Toast, a band too featuring piano player Michel Camilo and bassist Anthony Jackson.


From French Toast, Weckl branched out into sitting work, playing on numerous early-'80s roger Sessions with the likes of Bill Connors (Return to Forever), the Brecker Brothers, Tânia Maria, Paquito D'Rivera, Eliane Elias, and George Benson, as well as pop and soul albums for Diana Ross, Madonna, and Robert Plant. In 1986, Chick Corea saw Weckl playacting in New York with guitarist Connors and invited the drummer to get together his new Elektric Band. Weckl exhausted a total of seven years with Corea, playacting on legion albums and also appearance with Corea's Akoustic Band; his skills standard considerable esteem, and he augmented his work with Corea by continuing his session turn and appearance often with the GRP All-Star Big Band. Weckl too released a series of instructional videos, and in 1990 he lED his first solo appointment, with Master key Plan for GRP. Heads Up followed in 1992, as well as Hard-Wired in 1994.


Upon leaving Corea, Weckl's primary focus was transcription and touring with guitar player Mike Stern; he too continued his turn as a sideman. In 1998, Weckl light-emitting diode the R&B-oriented engagement Musical rhythm of the Soul, a return to his other boyhood melodious love, and the like-minded Synergy followed in 1999. The Dave Weckl Band had truly gelled by the time of Modulation's 2000 tone ending, simply Weckl didn't leave educational activity behind, either, and released another instructional recording, The Zone, in 2001. After working extensively with a quartette for the last few age, he debuted their efforts with 2002's improv-heavy Eonian Motion. Multiplicity followed three age later. He has a site at world Wide Web.daveweckl.com.





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