A Zoom Hang with Neal Wilkinson featuring Steve Gadd

One of the most influential drummers of all time, Steve Gaddset a new standard in contemporary drumming techniques and performance, and in doing so launched a thousand imitators. Recording so many legendary drum tracks like; " Aja"," Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" and "Nite Sprite", there is no drummer alive today who in some way has not been effected by Steve Gadd. 

His influence is still very much felt and can be heard in the playing of everyone from Vinnie Colaiuta to Carter Beauford. And still to this day there is no one who can get "inside" a tune and find the "pocket" quite like the great Steve Gadd.

By the end of the 1970's Gadd was the most in-demand and probably the most imitated drummer in the world. In Japan

transcriptions of his solos were on sale, and all the leading Japanese drummers were sounding like him. Chick…