Danny Gottlieb
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Danny Gottlieb is a freelance drummer
who has performed as part of the Pat Metheny Group
and Mahavishnu Orchestra. He is also a member of the University of North Florida
jazz faculty, where he teaches as a fulltime Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies.
in 1975. He has studied privately with Joe Morello
, Mel Lewis
, Gary Chester
, Bob Moses
, Ed Soph
, Jack DeJohnette
.
Danny has worked with the following ensembles: Jeff Berlin
Trio; Gary Burton
Quartet; Stan Getz
Quintet; Pat Metheny Group
; Gil Evans Orchestra; Bobby McFerrin
Trio; Eddie Gomez
Group; Michael Franks Band; John McLaughlin
's Mahavishnu Orchestra; Al Di Meola
Project; Mike Stern
Trio; Manhattan Jazz Quintet
; Manhattan Jazz Orchestra: GRP Big Band; Vanguard Jazz Orchestra; Joe Beck
Trio; Lew Soloff
Food Group; George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band; WDR Big Band; NDR Big Band; Tip Toe Jazz Orchestra; Randy Brecker
Quartet; Neenah Freelon Group; the Blues Brothers Band; Booker T and the MG's; Jazz is Dead; Pete Levin
Trio; Ali Ryerson
-Joe Beck
Group; Joanne Brackeen
Quartet; Bobby Rydell
; Joe Farrell
Quintet; Andy Laverne
Quintet; Jacqui Naylor Band; Fritz Renold Friends; Haru Trio; Knut Varnes Group; Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra; Loren Schoenberg Big band; Airto and Flora Purim
Group; Chuck Owen Jazz Surge; Jack Wilkins
Group, and many more...
Danny performed or recorded with: Sting, David Byrne
, Herbie Hancock
, Chick Corea
, Jim Hall
, Miroslav Vitous
, Wayne Shorter
, Larry Coryell
, Kenny Barron
, Rufus Reid
, Branford Marsalis
, Hiram Bullock
, Bill Evans
, Nana Vasconcellos, Trilok Gurtu, Dino Saluzzi
, Mark Murphy
, Chris Conner
, Mike Abene
, Gerry Mulligan
, Clark Terry
, Ernie Wilkins
, Mike Wolff, Badal Roy
, Hubert Laws
, Mike Richmond
, John Scofield
, Jeff Richman, Russell Ferrante
, Jimmy Haslip
,Ken Serio, Nguyên Lê
and many more...
Danny appears on over 300 CDs to date, including 5 Grammy winners. As a leader, Danny has 5 CDs under his own name, 9 as co-leader of Elements
, with Mark Egan; 2 as co-leader with Pete Levin, and 3 as co-leader of the Contempo trio, with Mark Soskin and Chip Jackson.
He is currently the drummer for Gary Sinise
's Lt. Dan Band
.
Danny is a clinician/endorser for Zildjian, Remo
, Basix Drums (Westheimer Corp.), Hot Sticks, Regal Tip Brushes, Hammerax Percussion, Eames Drum Shells, Shure Microphones, LP Percussion, Rhythm Tech Percussion.
Danny has 10 educational DVD's available with the Mel Bay Company. (Beginning, Intermediate , Advanced Jazz Drums; Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Rock Drums; Jazz Combo Drumming, and 3 with his teacher, the legendary Joe Morello "Natural Drumming".)
Danny currently professor of jazz drumset at the University of North Florida
, in Jacksonville, Florida
. He is married to the percussionist Beth Raddock Gottlieb, who also performs with Gary Sinise's group and is a percussion instructor at The University of Alabama’s School of Music.
Compilation Recordings (Various Artists):
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
who has performed as part of the Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny Group
The Pat Metheny Group is a jazz group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays , and bassist and producer Steve Rodby...
and Mahavishnu Orchestra. He is also a member of the University of North Florida
University of North Florida
The University of North Florida is a public university located in Jacksonville, Florida. A member institution of the State University System of Florida, the university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master’s...
jazz faculty, where he teaches as a fulltime Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies.
Biography
Danny graduated from the University of MiamiUniversity of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
in 1975. He has studied privately with Joe Morello
Joe Morello
Joseph Albert Morello was a jazz drummer best known for his 12½-year stint with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He was frequently noted for playing in the unusual time signatures employed by that group in such pieces as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo à la Turk"...
, Mel Lewis
Mel Lewis
Mel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....
, Gary Chester
Gary Chester
Gary Chester was one of the 20th century's busiest studio drummers. Gary is counted as one of the greats when it comes to studio session musicians. His work appears on thousands of tracks, including hundreds of hit records from the '50s, '60s and '70s...
, Bob Moses
Bob Moses (musician)
Rakalam Bob Moses is an American jazz drummer born in New York City.Moses played with Roland Kirk in 1964-65 while he was still a teenager. In 1966 he and Larry Coryell formed The Free Spirits, a jazz fusion ensemble, and from 1967 to 1969 he played in Gary Burton's quartet...
, Ed Soph
Ed Soph
Edward "Ed" Soph is an American jazz drummer and educator.Soph was raised in Houston, Texas. He enrolled at North Texas State University in 1963 as a music major, but switched his concentration to English during his sophomore year...
, Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...
.
Danny has worked with the following ensembles: Jeff Berlin
Jeff Berlin
Jeff Berlin is an American jazz, jazz fusion and progressive rock electric bass player.Jeff Berlin's bass playing is somewhat similar to that of Jaco Pastorius, though Berlin plays a fretted bass and has stated his distaste for Jaco imitators.-Early life:Jeff Berlin was born to parents who were...
Trio; Gary Burton
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. This approach caused Burton to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated...
Quartet; Stan Getz
Stan Getz
Stanley Getz was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott...
Quintet; Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny Group
The Pat Metheny Group is a jazz group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays , and bassist and producer Steve Rodby...
; Gil Evans Orchestra; Bobby McFerrin
Bobby McFerrin
Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
Trio; Eddie Gomez
Eddie Gomez
Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...
Group; Michael Franks Band; John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin (musician)
John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...
's Mahavishnu Orchestra; Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola is an acclaimed American jazz fusion and Latin guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date...
Project; Mike Stern
Mike Stern
Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he landed a gig with Billy Cobham and then broke through with Miles Davis' comeback band from 1981 to 1983, and again in 1985. Since then, he launched a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums...
Trio; Manhattan Jazz Quintet
Manhattan Jazz Quintet
The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on drums, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on bass...
; Manhattan Jazz Orchestra: GRP Big Band; Vanguard Jazz Orchestra; Joe Beck
Joe Beck
Joe Beck was an American guitarist who had been notable in jazz for more than 30 years.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beck also briefly flirted with rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
Trio; Lew Soloff
Lew Soloff
Lew Soloff is a jazz trumpeter, composer and actor. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1968 to 1973...
Food Group; George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band; WDR Big Band; NDR Big Band; Tip Toe Jazz Orchestra; Randy Brecker
Randy Brecker
Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...
Quartet; Neenah Freelon Group; the Blues Brothers Band; Booker T and the MG's; Jazz is Dead; Pete Levin
Pete Levin
Pete Levin is a jazz keyboardist, composer, and horn player with a 15-year association with the Gil Evans Orchestra and an 8-year association with Jimmy Giuffre. As a bandleader, he produced the album Deacon Blues in 2007...
Trio; Ali Ryerson
Ali Ryerson
Ali Ryerson is a flautist with a background in both classical and jazz, as well as being an instructor. She has performed and toured worldwide with a wide range of artists including Billy Taylor, Kenny Barron, Stephane Grappelli, Frank Wess, Red Rodney, Laurindo Almeida, Art Farmer, Maxine...
-Joe Beck
Joe Beck
Joe Beck was an American guitarist who had been notable in jazz for more than 30 years.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beck also briefly flirted with rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
Group; Joanne Brackeen
Joanne Brackeen
Joanne Brackeen is an American jazz pianist and music educator.-Biography:She was born Joanne Grogan in Ventura, California. She attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, but devoted herself to jazz by imitating Frankie Carle albums...
Quartet; Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell is an American professional singer, mainly of rock and roll music. In the early 1960s he was considered a so-called "teen idol"...
; Joe Farrell
Joe Farrell
Joseph Carl Firrantello , known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:Farrell was born in Chicago...
Quintet; Andy Laverne
Andy LaVerne
Andy LaVerne is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.LaVerne studied at Juilliard School of Music, Berklee College, and the New England Conservatory, and took private lessons from legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans...
Quintet; Jacqui Naylor Band; Fritz Renold Friends; Haru Trio; Knut Varnes Group; Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra; Loren Schoenberg Big band; Airto and Flora Purim
Flora Purim
Flora Purim is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark album Return to Forever...
Group; Chuck Owen Jazz Surge; Jack Wilkins
Jack Wilkins
Jack Wilkins is a guitarist born on June 3, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. He has played with many jazz greats including Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Heath, Epitaph , and bassist Eddie Gomez, as well as with singers Mel Tormé, Ray Charles, Morgana King, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, The Manhattan...
Group, and many more...
Danny performed or recorded with: Sting, David Byrne
David Byrne (musician)
David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...
, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
, Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
, Jim Hall
Jim Hall (musician)
James Stanley Hall is an American jazz guitarist.-Biography:Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s...
, Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitouš
Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš , is a Czech jazz bassist.-Biography:Born in Prague, he began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen. As a young man in Europe, Vitouš was a competitive swimmer. One of his early music groups was the Junior Trio with his...
, Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
, Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands The Jailers, The Rumblers, The Royals, and The Flames. He also played with The Checkers from nearby...
, Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron , is an American jazz pianist. He is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Bill Barron, and known for his lyrical, adaptive style.-Biography:...
, Rufus Reid
Rufus Reid
Rufus Reid is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.-Personal history:...
, Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque.-Biography:Marsalis was born...
, Hiram Bullock
Hiram Bullock
Hiram Law Bullock was an American jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S. Military. At the age of two he returned to Baltimore, Maryland with his parents, and quickly showed a prodigious musical talent...
, Bill Evans
Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...
, Nana Vasconcellos, Trilok Gurtu, Dino Saluzzi
Dino Saluzzi
Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi is an Argentine musician.The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood...
, Mark Murphy
Mark Murphy (singer)
Mark Murphy is an American jazz singer based in New York. He is most noted for his definitive and unique vocalese and vocal improvisations with both melody and lyrics...
, Chris Conner
Chris Conner
Chris Ryan Conner is an American professional ice hockey winger, currently with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. He has also played professionally with the Dallas Stars and Pittsburgh Penguins. He grew up in Westland, MI and attended Churchill High School in Livonia, MI...
, Mike Abene
Mike Abene
Michael Abene is a jazz pianist known for accompanying singers and for arranging music. He has accompanied Susannah McCorkle Julius La Rosa, and others. He had his first solo album Solo Piano in 1986.- References :...
, Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also...
, Clark Terry
Clark Terry
Clark Terry is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, NEA Jazz Masters inductee, and recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award...
, Ernie Wilkins
Ernie Wilkins
Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. was a jazz arranger and writer who also played tenor saxophone. He might be best known for his work with Count Basie. He also wrote for Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Dizzy Gillespie...
, Mike Wolff, Badal Roy
Badal Roy
Badal Roy is a tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist known for his work in jazz, world music, and experimental music.-Biography:...
, Hubert Laws
Hubert Laws
Hubert Laws is an American flutist and saxophonist with a 40+ year career in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Alongside Herbie Mann, Laws is probably the most recognized and respected jazz flutist...
, Mike Richmond
Mike Richmond (musician)
Mike Richmond is an American jazz bassist.Richmond played guitar as a youth but picked up bass during high school. He attended Temple University and taught and played locally in the late 1960s...
, John Scofield
John Scofield
John Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham,...
, Jeff Richman, Russell Ferrante
Russell Ferrante
Russell Keith Ferrante is a jazz pianist from San Jose, California who is a founding member of the group Yellowjackets. During his early career, Ferrante performed with American blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon and guitarist Robben Ford. He also toured with Joni Mitchell. The group Yellowjackets...
, Jimmy Haslip
Jimmy Haslip
Jimmy Haslip is an American electric bass player and record producer best known as a founding and current member of the pioneering fusion group Yellowjackets...
,Ken Serio, Nguyên Lê
Nguyên Lê
Nguyên Lê is a French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry. His main instrument is guitar, and he also plays electric bass guitar and guitar synthesizer....
and many more...
Danny appears on over 300 CDs to date, including 5 Grammy winners. As a leader, Danny has 5 CDs under his own name, 9 as co-leader of Elements
Elements (band)
Elements was an American jazz fusion ensemble founded by bass guitarist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb in 1982. Both Egan and Gottlieb were former members of the Pat Metheny Group, and Elements' sound draws deeply from their experience as Metheney's former rhythm section...
, with Mark Egan; 2 as co-leader with Pete Levin, and 3 as co-leader of the Contempo trio, with Mark Soskin and Chip Jackson.
He is currently the drummer for Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise
Gary Alan Sinise is an American actor, film director and musician. During his career, Sinise has won various awards including an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1992, Sinise directed, and played the role of George Milton in the successful film adaptation of...
's Lt. Dan Band
Lt. Dan Band
The Lt. Dan Band is a cover band founded by Kimo Williams and Gary Sinise who have worked together since a Steppenwolf production of A Streetcar Named Desire. The band is named after the character Lieutenant Dan Taylor, whom Sinise portrayed in the film Forrest Gump...
.
Danny is a clinician/endorser for Zildjian, Remo
Remo
Remo is a male given name of Latin origin - see Romulus and Remus.Remo may also refer to:* Remo, an American drum skin company* Remo , another name for the German wine grape Riesling* Remo language, a Panoan language of Brazil and Peru...
, Basix Drums (Westheimer Corp.), Hot Sticks, Regal Tip Brushes, Hammerax Percussion, Eames Drum Shells, Shure Microphones, LP Percussion, Rhythm Tech Percussion.
Danny has 10 educational DVD's available with the Mel Bay Company. (Beginning, Intermediate , Advanced Jazz Drums; Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Rock Drums; Jazz Combo Drumming, and 3 with his teacher, the legendary Joe Morello "Natural Drumming".)
Danny currently professor of jazz drumset at the University of North Florida
University of North Florida
The University of North Florida is a public university located in Jacksonville, Florida. A member institution of the State University System of Florida, the university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master’s...
, in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
. He is married to the percussionist Beth Raddock Gottlieb, who also performs with Gary Sinise's group and is a percussion instructor at The University of Alabama’s School of Music.
Solo artist
- Aquamarine (Atlantic) with John Mclaughlin, Joe Satriani, John Abercrombie, Mitchel Forman, others
- Whirlwind (Atlantic), with Chuck Loeb, Mark Egan, others (1989)
- Brooklyn Blues (Big World) with Gil Goldstein, John Abercrombie, Jeremy Steig, Chip Jackson
- Beautiful Ballads (Nicolosi Productions), with Mark soskin and Chip jackson
- Jazz Standards (Nicolosi Productions), with Andy laverne and Chip Jackson
- Back to the Past (Nicolosi Productions). with guest interviews with Don Lamond , and Joe Morello
As a Co-Leader with Mark Egan
- Elements (Antilles) (1982)
- Elements Forward Motion (Antilles) (1983)
- Elements Illumination (BMG) (1984)
- Elements Liberal Arts (BMG) (1985)
- Elements Spirit River (BMG) (1986)
- Elements Live in the Far East, Vol 1 (Wavetone) (1987)
- Elements Live in the Far East Vol 2 (Wavetone) (1988)
- Elements Untold Stories (Wavetone) (1989)
- Elements Blown Away (Wavetone) (2008)
As a Co-Leader with Pete Levin
- The New Age of Christmas (Atlantic) (1990)
- Masters in this HallMasters in This Hall"Masters in This Hall" , , is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by William Morris to an old French dance tune...
(Levin Productions) (1998)
Sideman
Additional Appearances (listed in alphabetical order by artist):- Muriel Anderson Wildcat (2006)
- Pedro Aznar Contemplacion (1984)
- Joe Beck Finger Painting (1995)
- Joe Beck Just Friends (2003)
- Jeff Berlin In Harmony’s Way (2001)
- Jeff Berlin Lumpy Jazz (2004)
- Warren Bernhart Ain’t Life Grand (1980)
- Randy Bernsen Mo’ Wasabi
- Blues Brothers Live in Montreux (1989)
- Blues Brothers Red, White, and Blues (1984)
- Blues Brothers Live at the House of Blues, Chicago, with Dan Akroyd (1998)
- Boca Livre Live (1995)
- Booker T and the MG’s Back to Stax DVD soundtrack (1994)
- Bob Brookmeyer Electricity (1991)
- Lutz Buechner Ring (2005)
- Gary BurtonGary BurtonGary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. This approach caused Burton to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated...
Quartet with Eberhard WeberEberhard WeberEberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing...
- PassengersPassengers (Gary Burton album)Passengers is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton's Quartet with bassist Eberhard Weber recorded in 1976 and released on the ECM label in 1977...
(ECM, 1976) - Dina Carroll So Close (1993)
- Clifford Carter Walking into the Sun (1993)
- Central Park Kids Play Mozart (1990)
- Corey Christianson (2003)
- Corey Christianson MB3 Jazz Hits 1(2007)
- Jeff Ciampa Signs of Life (1997)
- Jeff Ciampa (2003)
- Alex Clements Waiting for You (2008)
- The Connection Inside Out (1992)
- Chris Conner (1998)
- Contempo Trio No Jamf’s Allowed (1991)
- Contempo Trio Secret of Life (2003)
- Scott Cossu Islands (1984)
- Scott Cossu Retrospective (1992)
- Dade In the Shade (1991)
- Per Danielsson Trio Dream Dancing (2005)
- Al Di Meola Project Soaring Through a Dream (1985)
- Al Di Meola Project Cielo e Terra (Bonus Track) (1985)
- Al Di Meola Project Tirami Su (1987)
- Al Di Meola Best of Al Di Meola (1992)
- Al Di Meola Best of Al Di Meola (1992)
- Al Di Meola Revisited (2003)
- Patti Dunham Repertoire (1992)
- Mark Egan Mosaic(1985)
- Mark Egan Touch of Light (1989)
- Mark Egan Beyond Words (1990)
- Mark Egan Freedom Town (2001)
- Mark Egan As We Speak (2006)
- Bill Evans Living in the Crest of a Wave (1983)
- Bill Evans Alternative Man (1985)
- Gil Evans Orchestra Bud and Bird (Grammy Award Winner 1986)
- Gil Evans Orchestra Farewell (1986)
- Gil Evans Orchestra Live in Perugia, Vol. 1
- Gil Evans Orchestra Live in Perugia, Vol. 2
- Gil Evans Orchestra 75th Birthday Concert, live at BBC
- Gil Evans Orchestra Tribute
- Gil Evans Orchestra The Honey Man
- Mitch Farber Star Climber (1982)
- Michael Franks Skin Dive (1985)
- Nnenna Freelon Maiden Voyage (with Herbie Hancock, 1998)
- Michael Gerber This is Michael Gerber (1998)
- Michael Gerber and Mark Knobel (1990)
- Gil Goldstein Sands of Time (1980)
- Gil Goldstein Wrapped in a Cloud (1980)
- Anita Gravine Lights, Camera, Passion (1999)
- George Gruntz Beyond Another Wall-Live in China (1992)
- George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band Global Excellence (2001)
- George Gruntz Cosmopolitan Greetings (1994)
- George Gruntz and the NDR Big Band The Magic of a Flute (2005)
- George Gruntz Tiger By the Tail (2006)
- George Gruntz Radio Days (2007)
- Jim Hall Youkali (1992)
- Michael Hammer Rhythm and Blues (2005)
- Haru-Wayne Shorter Galactic Age (1992)
- Haru Live in Japan (2001)
- Haru Live at 55 Bar, New York City (2000)
- Jonas Hellborg Axis (1988)
- Jonas Hellborg Bass (1988)
- Toniho Horta Moonstone (1989)
- Toniho Horta Moonstone (1989)
- Toniho Horta Moon River (1995)
- HR Big Band Live with Jack Bruce Not Just the Blues (2008)
- Hue and Cry Jazz, Not Jazz (1999)
- Stanley Jordan Dreams of Peace (2003)
- Nando Lauria Points of View (1994)
- Nando Lauria Novo Brazil (1996)
- Andy Laverne Plays the Music of Chick Corea (1981)
- Andy Laverne Stan Getz in Chappaqua (1997)
- Andy Laverne Epistrophy (2003)
- Andy Laverne Peace of Mind (2005)
- T Lavitz From the West (1987)
- Hubert Laws Say it with Silence (1978)
- Hubert Laws Malaguena (1996)
- Nguyen Le Three Trios (1997)
- Nguyen Le First Act
- Lee Ann Legerwood You Wish (1991)
- Jack Lee From Belo to Seoul (2000)
- Pete Levin Party in the Basement (1989)
- Pete Levin Deacon Blues (2007)
- Kristin Lomholt Spell (2006)
- Tom Malone Standards of Living (1991)
- Manhattan Jazz Orchestra Morita (1995)
- Mann Brothers Mann to Mann (1993)
- Matalex Indian Summer(1995)
- David Mathews Trio Tennessee Waltz, featuring John Schofield (1989)
- David Mathews Manhattan Jazz Orchestra (1991)
- David Mathews featuring Kenny Burrell
- John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Adventures in Radioland (1985)
- John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra Live at Montreux (2004)
- Pat Metheny Group Watercolors (1977)
- Pat Metheny Group Pat Metheny Group (1978)
- Pat Metheny Group Live on Tour (1979)
- Pat Metheny Group American Garage (1990)
- Pat Metheny Group Offramp (1981)
- Pat Metheny Group Travels (1982)
- Pat Metheny Secret Story (1992)
- Pat Metheny Group Salt Lake (1992)
- Pat Metheny Group Blue Asphalt
- Pat Metheny Group Live in Seattle
- Pat Metheny Group Live at Tros-Sesjun
- Pat Metheny Works
- Fred Miller What’s Wrong with this Picture (1993)
- More or Less Jazz Two (2006)
- Bob Moses Visit with the Great Spirit (1983)
- Doug Munro Shootin’ Pool at Leo’s (1997)
- NDR Big Band conducted by Steve Gray Music of Astor Piazzolla (2007)
- NDR Big Band, conducted by Steve Gray with Peter Fessler I Concentrate on You (2007)
- Vince Nerlino Trio (2000)
- Vince Nerlino Group (2003)
- New York Voices Hearts of Fire (1991)
- Richard Niles Santa Rita (1998)
- Richard Niles Club De Ranged (1999)
- Noa (1985)
- Novecento (2007)
- Open Door North from Riverside (2000)
- Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge Madcap (2001)
- Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge Here We Are (2004)
- Pablo Paredes (2005)
- Pablo Paredes Africa (2007)
- Jim Pepper Comin’ and Goin’ (1984)
- The Prodigal Sons Stranger Things Have Happened (1996)
- Fritz Renold and Bostonian Friends Starlight (1998)
- Fritz Renold and Christian Jacob Live in Thailand
- Sherri Roberts Dreamsville (1996)
- Ali Ryerson I’ll Be Back (1993)
- Ali Ryerson Portraits in Silver (1994)
- Ali Ryesrson Brazil Quiet Devotion (1997)
- Sergio Salvatore (1993)
- Sergio Salvatore Tune Up (1994)
- Stan Samole Gliding (1990)
- Stan Samole (1995)
- Helen Schneider Right as Rain with WDR Big Band (1995)
- Loren Schoenberg Out of this World (1999)
- Neil Sedaka Tales of Love (1999)
- Ken Serio Eye to Eye (2005)
- Ben Sidrin Life’s a Lesson (1994)
- Ben Sidrin Anthology (2003)
- Kenneth Sivertsen Remembering North (1993)
- Kenneth Sivertsen One Day in October (2000)
- Lew Soloff and Company Rainbow Mountain (2000)
- Lew Soloff My Romance (1994)
- Sting and Gil Evans Last Session (1987)
- Sting Strange Fruit (1997)
- Richard Stoltzman Inner Voices (1989)
- Richard Stoltzman Brazil (1991)
- Richard Stoltzman Open Sky (1998)
- USF Suncoast (2002)
- Trio Loco (2000)
- Knut Varnes Trio 8/97 (1997)
- Knut Varnes Super Duper
- Dino Betti Van der Noot They Cannot Know (1987)
- Dino Betti Van der Noot Here Comes Springtime (1985)
- Jeremy Wall Cool Running (1991)
- Jeremy Wall Stepping to the New World (1992)
- Bill Washer ASAP
- Michael Whalen Mysterious Ways (2001)
- Patrick Williams New York 10th Avenue (1986)
- Jack Wilkins Ridge Running (2002)
- Michael Zilber Heretic (1988)
- Original Soundtrack Family Thing (1996)
- Original Soundtrack Punchline (1995)
- Original Soundtrack Turner and Hooch (1994)
- Original Soundtrack Children of the Corn (1986)
Compilation Recordings (Various Artists):
- Chiaroscuro Christmas (1973)
- Blue Note (1986)
- Novus Sampler (1988)
- KBLX TheQuiet Storm (1988)
- WNUA Smooth Sounds (1988)
- WQCD Cool Sounds (1988)
- GRP On the Cutting Edge (1989)
- Windham Hill The First Ten Years (1990)
- Beyond the Groove (1991)
- GRP Digital Sampler (1991)
- GRP Christmas Collection, Vol 3 (1993)
- Jazz to the World, with Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Michael Franks (1995)
- Little Magic in a Noisy World(1996)
- New Spirits in Jazz (1996)
- Bass Talk, Vol 4 (1997)
- Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook (1997)
- Wouldn’t it be Nice-Tribute to the Beach Boys (1997)
- Paint it Blue-Songs of the Rolling Stones (1997)
- Feels Like Sunday Morning (1998)
- Blow (1998)
- Blow (2002)
- New York City After Hours (2001)
- Live at Baked Potato, Vol 1 (2001)
- Live at Baked Potato, Vol 2 (2001)
- Storytellers (2002)