{"id":27462,"date":"2025-04-05T21:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27462"},"modified":"2025-04-05T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:48:08","slug":"music-drums-steve-gadd-72-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27462","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC\/DRUMS: Steve Gadd, \u201872"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STEVE GADD 1972 #stevegadd #drums #drummer #jazz #drumvideo\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3M-v9mzi5A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mmm\u2026 love this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been digging Gadd\u2019s immaculate grooving behind O\u2019Donel Levy, on the superb <em>Simba<\/em> album <em>a lot <\/em>recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5954-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5954-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5954-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5954-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5954-1-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5954-1-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5954-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A fabulous album. Reissued on Mr Bongo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This performance predates that. And to see Gadd so young &#8211; big \u2018Fro, but no beard! &#8211; is wonderful. And to hear him? Even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What touch! What feel! Not super hard and heavy, but light, subtle. Just exactly right! The veritable Goldilocks zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was shot the year I was born. And he\u2019s still with us! What a legend. I\u2019d love to know exactly what the performance was. Who with, etc. I would like to see the whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJciweWJBVc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aha!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LATER\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I found the above, on the YT channel of Dutch drummer, Ruben van Roon (quite a dude himself!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out it\u2019s a quartet of Chuck Mangione (keys and flumpet) and Gerry Niewood (sax), with Tony Levin (bass) and Gadd. Poss\u2019 performing at Montreux, \u201872?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mmm\u2026 love this! I\u2019ve been digging Gadd\u2019s immaculate grooving behind O\u2019Donel Levy, on the superb Simba album a lot recently. This performance predates that. And to see Gadd so young &#8211; big \u2018Fro, but no beard! &#8211; is wonderful. And to hear him? Even better. What touch! What feel! Not super hard and heavy, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC\/DRUMS: Steve Gadd, \u201872&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-78W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27467,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27462\/revisions\/27467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}