Jody Cortez is a drummer who began his professional career at the age of 21 when he began to tour with Boz Scaggs in 1981. He once played drums for Cinderella

Cinderella (band)

Cinderella is an American heavy metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal band, but then shifted over towards a more hard...

. He replaced drummer Jim Drnec

Jim Drnec

Jim Drnec is a drummer who played for the band Cinderella. He replaced original Cinderella drummer Tony Destra, who went on to the band Britny Fox. Drnec was himself replaced by drummer Fred Coury, although session player Jody Cortez played on Cinderella's first official album, Night Songs...

 and was replaced by drummer Fred Coury

Fred Coury

Fred Coury is best known as the drummer for the glam metal band Cinderella. Coury lists Neil Peart, Peter Criss, Bobby Blotzer, Eric Carr, Tommy Lee and Tommy Aldridge as his drumming inspirations....

 shortly after the recording of Cinderella's Night Songs

Night Songs

Night Songs is Cinderella's debut album, released in 1986 through Mercury Records in America and Vertigo Records in Europe. It sold several million copies due to a combination of their breakthrough single "Nobody's Fool", MTV airplay, and an opening slot on labelmates Bon Jovi's tour, in support of...

.

He played on Night Songs and some early copies of Night Songs do feature a picture of Cortez on the back cover, but Fred Coury was in the album photo and listed as a band member in the liner notes because he was by then a member of the band.

Jody Cortez has worked with David Crosby

David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash , and CPR...

 and played on the live version of the hit single "Hero" by Crosby and Phil Collins

Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....

. In 1994, Cortez toured with CSN for the 25th Anniversary Tour, including Woodstock 2. In December 2009, he was announced as the new drummer for Yoso

Yoso

Yoso is a melodic rock/progressive rock supergroup combining former members of Yes and Toto...

, although he left the band early in 2010.

Touring history

World Tours:
1981-1983 Boz Scaggs
1984- Brenda Russell, T.J. Parker
1989-1995 David Crosby
1990-2001 Christopher Cross

Discography

William MacGregor

William MacGregor

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, Welcome to the Carnival 2007

Cinderella

Cinderella (band)

Cinderella is an American heavy metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal band, but then shifted over towards a more hard...

 - Gold 2006

Judy Henske

Judy Henske

Judy Henske is an American singer and songwriter, once known as "the Queen of the Beatniks".-Life and recording career:...

 - She Sang California 2005

Cinderella

Cinderella (band)

Cinderella is an American heavy metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal band, but then shifted over towards a more hard...

 - Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits

Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits

Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits is a compilation/greatest hits album released by Cinderella in 2005, featuring tracks from their entire catalog.-Track listing:# "Night Songs" - 4:12# "Shake Me" - 3:44# "Nobody's Fool" 4:47...

 2005

David Crosby

David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash , and CPR...

 - Greatest Hits Live 2003

David Crosby

David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash , and CPR...

 - From the Front Row Live 2003

Chicago

Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...

 - The Box

The Box (Chicago)

The Box is a five-CD/one DVD career-spanning box set by popular American group Chicago and was compiled and released through Rhino Records in 2003...

 (Bonus DVD) 2003

Lisa Ono

Lisa Ono

Lisa Ono is a popular Japanese-Brazilian bossa nova singer.- Biography :Lisa Ono was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10...

 - Serenata Carioca 2000

Tony Gilkyson

Tony Gilkyson

Tony Gilkyson is an Los Angeles based musician. He is the son of songwriter and folk musician Terry Gilkyson and Jane Gilkyson. He is the brother of guitarist Eliza Gilkyson.-Career:...

 - Sparko 2000

Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme ", the last of which he performed for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore...

 - Greatest Hits Live 1999

Paul Williams - Back to Love Again 1999

Mark Hayes - Transmitter 1999

Marcos Valle - Marcos Valle Songbook, Vol. 2 1998

Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following...

 - Dans ma chair

Dans ma chair

Dans ma chair is the name of an album recorded by the French singer Patricia Kaas. It was released in 1997 and achieved success in many countries.-Background and writing:...

 1997

Tania Alves - Amores E Boleros, Vol. 2 1996

Tamara Champlin - You Won't Get to Heaven Alive 1996

Michael Blake - End of the Century 1996

Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme ", the last of which he performed for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore...

 - Window 1995

Oriental Spas - Pain 1995

David Crosby

David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash , and CPR...

 - It's All Coming Back to Me Now...

It's All Coming Back To Me Now...

It's All Coming Back To Me Now... is a live album by David Crosby and his fourth solo effort. Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes and Graham Nash also appear on the album...

 1995

Crosby, Stills & Nash - After the Storm 1994

Keith Chagall - Angels on the Faultline 1994

Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme ", the last of which he performed for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore...

 - Rendezvous 1993

Louie Louie

Louie Louie (musician)

Louie Louie is a Puerto Rican/American musician and record producer from Los Angeles, California. He released three full-length albums in the last twenty years, as well as a number of singles, but only two of the singles, 1990's "Sittin' in the Lap of Luxury" and "I Wanna Get Back With You,"...

 - Let's Get Started 1993

Various Artists - A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 2 1992

Sam Kinison

Sam Kinison

Samuel Burl "Sam" Kinison was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Kinison was known for his intense, harsh and politically incorrect genre humor...

 - Leader of the Banned

Leader of the Banned

Leader of the Banned is the third Sam Kinison comedy album released in 1990. He performs tracks of classic rock songs by bands such as AC/DC, Mountain, Cheap Trick, and The Rolling Stones.-Track listing:The album contained the following tracks:...

 1990

Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams (singer)

Christopher Williams is an American R&B singer and actor.-Music career:...

 - Adventures in Paradise

Adventures in Paradise (Christopher Williams album)

Adventures In Paradise is the debut album by R&B singer Christopher Williams.-Reception:Released in 1989 this album charted number twenty three on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart.-Track listing:#Talk To Myself 4:20 #Sexy Sex 3:42...

 1989

Various Artists - Rock, Rhythm & Blues 1989

Various Artists - Playlist Plus: Very Special Christmas 1989

Peter Cetera

Peter Cetera

Peter Paul Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, bassist and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago, before launching a successful solo career...

 - One More Story

One More Story

One More Story is the third solo album for music artist Peter Cetera and his second album after leaving the group Chicago. This album includes the hit "One Good Woman". It also includes the single "Best Of Times"...

 1988

Nick Kamen w/Madonna - Us 1988

Phil Christian - No Prisoner 1988

Julie Brown

Julie Brown

Julie Ann Brown is an American actress, comedienne, screen/television writer, singer-songwriter, television director. Brown is perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, where she often played a quintessential valley girl character...

 - Trapped in the Body of a White Girl

Trapped in the Body of a White Girl

Trapped in the Body of a White Girl is a 1987 album by Julie Brown. Brown purchased the rights to the album 15 years later and re-released it independently, available exclusively on her website...

 1987

Cinderella

Cinderella (band)

Cinderella is an American heavy metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal band, but then shifted over towards a more hard...

 - Night Songs

Night Songs

Night Songs is Cinderella's debut album, released in 1986 through Mercury Records in America and Vertigo Records in Europe. It sold several million copies due to a combination of their breakthrough single "Nobody's Fool", MTV airplay, and an opening slot on labelmates Bon Jovi's tour, in support of...

 1986

Stephan Crane - Kicks 1984

Stone Fury - Burns Like a Star 1984

Louise Goffin

Louise Goffin

Louise Lynn Goffin is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Signed by record executive Lenny Waronker to Dreamworks in 1999, Louise released her critically acclaimed CD Sometimes a Circle on Dreamworks in 2002...

 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film written by Cameron Crowe and adapted from his 1981 book of the same name...

1982