Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer

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...

 based in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania

Republic, Pennsylvania

Republic is a census-designated place in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,396 at the 2000 census. Republic is found in Redstone Township.Republic is like Brownsville, PA but still has a handful of buisnesses....

, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14. He is notable for his technical skill and his musical versatility, having played with many artists from a wide variety of genres.

Career

After attending the Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 in Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

 for a year, Colaiuta had his first big break as a member of the Christopher Morris Band in 1976-1977. Playing and recording with the Christopher Morris

Chris Morris (author)

Christopher Crosby Morris is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a lyricist, musical composer, and singer-songwriter. He is married to author Janet Morris. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a principal in M2 Technologies, Inc...

 Band (MCA 2282) in 1977, Colaiuta relocated with the band to Los Angeles. After leaving the Christopher Morris Band, he made a mediocre living playing with lounge bands. His next break came in April 1978 at the age of 22, when Colaiuta auditioned for Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

, an audition that involved performing the notoriously difficult piece entitled "The Black Page

The Black Page

"The Black Page" is a piece by American composer Frank Zappa known for being extraordinarily difficult to play. Originally written for the drum kit and melodic percussion, the piece was later rearranged in several versions, including a disco and a so-called New Age version.Drummer Terry Bozzio said...

". The audition was successful and Colaiuta went on to work with Zappa as his principal drummer for studio and live performances. He played on the successful Zappa albums Tinsel Town Rebellion

Tinsel Town Rebellion

Tinseltown Rebellion is a double-album released by Frank Zappa in 1981. It was reissued on a single CD by Rykodisc in 1990. Complaints regarding the significantly inferior sound quality led to a remaster by Spencer Chrislu in 1998.The opening track, "Fine Girl" is a studio recording...

, Joe's Garage

Joe's Garage

Joe's Garage is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa. Zappa stated that along with Lumpy Gravy, this album was one of his finest achievements. It was originally released as two separate albums, the first comprising Act I, and the second part as a double-album which made up Acts II & III. All three...

, and Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar is a triple vinyl album, originally issued mail order-only as three separate volumes, featuring live material recorded by Frank Zappa between February 1977 and December 1980. The final track, "Canard du Jour", is a duet with Frank Zappa on electric bouzouki and Jean-Luc...

. Joe's Garage was named one of the top-25 drumming performances of all time in a 1993 Modern Drummer

Modern Drummer

Modern Drummer is a monthly publication targeting the interests of on drummers and percussionists. The magazine features interviews, equipment reviews, and columns offering advice on technique, as well as information for the general public...

article.

About Colaiuta's ability to play Zappa's notoriously complex music and the complex style of polyrhythms, guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

ist Steve Vai

Steve Vai

Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....

 told the following story:
Colaiuta is mentioned in Frank Zappa's song, "Catholic Girls" by the character Mary.

Session work

After leaving Zappa, Colaiuta went on to work with a long list of notable rock and pop artists, including Gino Vannelli

Gino Vannelli

Gino Vannelli is an Italian-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician and composer.-Early years:Born in Montreal, Quebec, Vannelli is one of three sons born to Russ and Delia Vannelli. Russ, his father, was a big band musician. As a child, Gino's greatest passion was music, and he began playing...

, Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

, Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...

, Sandy & Junior

Sandy & Junior

Sandy & Junior was a Brazilian pop music duo consisting of siblings Sandy Leah Lima and her brother Durval de Lima Junior . They have one of the 10 best-selling albums ever in Brazil...

, Jay Vaquer

Jay Vaquer

Jay Vaquer is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.Jay Vaquer was born in Rio de Janeiro. Son of Jay Anthony Vaquer and a brazilian singer Jane Duboc....

, Clannad, Wang Chung

Wang Chung (band)

Wang Chung are an English New Wave musical group.The group found their greatest success in America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1983 and 1987, including "Dance Hall Days" , "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and "Let's Go!" .-Pre-history: The Intellektuals and 57 Men :Jeremy...

, Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...

, Megadeth

Megadeth

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

, The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...

, Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

 and Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...

. He has also appeared with many notable jazz musicians, including 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...

, 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...

, 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...

, Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

, the Buddy Rich Big Band

Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.-Early life:...

 and Buell Neidlinger

Buell Neidlinger

Buell Neidlinger is an American cellist and double bassist.Neidlinger was born in Westport, Connecticut. After Yale University, he moved to New York City and began playing in various jazz settings...

. He has also played with Chuck Loeb

Chuck Loeb

Chuck Loeb is a guitarist who performs numerous styles of music, most notably jazz. Loeb's own solo projects have generally been commercially successful crossover jazz, which has "contemporary" or "smooth" jazz....

, David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt is a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid and more recently that country's landscapes.-Life and work:...

, David Sancious

David Sancious

David Sancious is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on the 1992 album Human Touch. Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and...

, Dean Brown

Dean Brown

Dean Craig Brown, AO was the Liberal Premier of South Australia between 14 December 1993 and 28 November 1996, and Deputy Premier of South Australia between 22 October 2001 and 5 March 2002 to Rob Kerin.-Political career:...

, Jeff Porcaro

Jeff Porcaro

Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...

, Jim Beard

Jim Beard

James Arthur Beard is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist, contemporary instrumental composer, arranger and record producer.- Life and career :...

, John Patitucci

John Patitucci

John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...

, Mark Egan

Mark Egan

Mark Egan is an American jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, arguably best known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980, and the Gil Evans Orchestra...

, Gigi D'Alessio

Gigi d'Alessio

Luigi "Gigi" D'Alessio is an Italian popular singer and Neapolitan singer-songwriter.-Career:D'Alessio was born in Naples. Well-known in Naples beginning in the early 1990s and throughout Italy due to participation in the Sanremo Festival in 2000 and 2001. He has also made overseas appearances,...

, Robben Ford

Robben Ford

Robben Ford is an American blues, jazz and rock guitarist.-Biography:Ford was born in Woodlake, California, United States, but raised in Ukiah, California, and began playing the saxophone at age 10, picking up the guitar at age 13...

, and Tim Landers

Tim Landers

Timothy Gerard Landers is an American bass guitarist, composer and record producer.He graduated from Brockton High School in 1975 and attended the Berklee College of Music from 1976 to 1977, studying under Neil Stubenhaus and Whit Browne...

.

1990s

In 1990, Colaiuta successfully auditioned as drummer in Sting's touring band in support of his album The Soul Cages

The Soul Cages

The Soul Cages is the third full length studio album released by Sting. Released in 1991, it became his second No. 1 album in the United Kingdom. It spawned four singles: "All This Time", "Mad About You", "Why Should I Cry For You" and "The Soul Cages"...

. Colaiuta remained as a member of Sting's band for the next seven years. He declined the offer to go out on the road for the Brand New Day tour in 1999 due to the considerable length of a typical Sting world tour. Colaiuta's studio work with Sting can be heard on Ten Summoner's Tales

Ten Summoner's Tales

Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the rock musician Sting. The title is a combined pun of his given name, Gordon Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner...

(1993), Mercury Falling

Mercury Falling

Mercury Falling is the fifth studio album released by Sting. The album was marked by its tight studio production and use of brass reminiscent of recordings made at FAME Studios in the 1960s. This release was considered by many fans to signal the beginning of Sting's transition from heavier...

(1996), three songs on Brand New Day (1999) and two songs on Sacred Love

Sacred Love

Sacred Love is the seventh studio album by Sting. The album was released on 30 September 2003. The album featured smoother, R&B-style beats and experiments collaborating with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar player Anoushka Shankar...

(2003). In September 2003, he returned to Sting's touring lineup in a brief promotional tour of Sacred Love, but once again declined the offer to participate in the world tour. At 10.21.2011 Vinnie Colaiuta rejoined Sting´s tour band for performing on the Back to Bass Tour. So he will continue his live collaboration with Sting after almost fifteen years.

Colaiuta released a self-titled solo recording in 1994, and still remains one of the most in demand studio musician

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

s playing on countless albums, film soundtracks, TV

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 and radio jingles. His dedication to self-improvement is legendary: Dom Famularo

Dom Famularo

Dom Famularo , is a professional drummer, drum teacher, author, clinician and motivational speaker.-Biography:...

, a famous drum educator and Colaiuta's friend, once told a story about Colaiuta opening his door while practising on a drum pad; after a few minutes of a chat on the door step, Colaiuta said: "I'm such a bad host, I haven't offered you anything! Do you want a pad?"

Colaiuta has won a total of 18 Drummer of the Year awards from Modern Drummer

Modern Drummer

Modern Drummer is a monthly publication targeting the interests of on drummers and percussionists. The magazine features interviews, equipment reviews, and columns offering advice on technique, as well as information for the general public...

magazine's annual reader polls. These include 10 awards in the "Best Overall" category. Colaiuta was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1996. The publication also cited Colaiuta as being the most important drummer of our time.

2000 to present

In 2006 to 2007, Colaiuta toured with Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...

 and Tal Wilkenfeld

Tal Wilkenfeld

Tal Wilkenfeld is a bass guitarist who has gained worldwide attention performing alongside some of rock and jazz music's most notable artists...

 on bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, with Jason Rebello

Jason Rebello

Jason Rebello is a British jazz pianist, currently part of Sting's live and studio band, who has recorded a handful of albums under his own name. His debut album, A Clearer View was produced by Wayne Shorter....

 playing keyboards

Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

, in Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

's Crossroads Guitar Festival

Crossroads Guitar Festival

The Crossroads Guitar Festival is a music festival and benefit concert first held in 2004 and again in 2007 and 2010. The festivals benefit the Crossroads Centre founded by Eric Clapton, a drug treatment center located in Antigua. The concerts are also intended to be a showcase for a variety of...

.

Colaiuta recorded and toured with Faith Hill

Faith Hill

Faith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S...

, recorded with the thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 outfit Megadeth

Megadeth

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

 on their album The System Has Failed

The System Has Failed

-Songs:* "Blackmail the Universe" has numerous quotes from the movie Thirteen Days, which was about the Cuban Missile Crisis.* "Die Dead Enough" was released as a single, and was originally set to be featured in the movie Saw, but it was not used for undisclosed reasons.* "The Scorpion" was...

, and toured with Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...

 and 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...

.

From October 22 to November 23, 2008, Colaiuta toured Europe with John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

, 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...

, Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett is a Grammy Award-winning American post bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained fame in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. He has since pursued a critically acclaimed solo career...

 and Christian McBride

Christian McBride

Christian McBride is an American jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors...

 in the Five Peace Band

Five Peace Band

Five Peace Band is a post bop/jazz fusion quintet featuring Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Vinnie Colaiuta....

.

2009 was the release of the Zappa alumni all star band The Mar Vista Philharmonic, featuring Tommy Mars

Tommy Mars

Tommy Mars is a keyboard player, best known for his work with Frank Zappa.Born in Connecticut, U.S.A., 26 October 1951 Mars began piano lessons at age eight, and later his instrument range expanded to various keyboards and synthesizers. Mars graduated in 1972 from the Hartt College of Music in...

, Bruce Fowler

Bruce Fowler

Bruce Lambourne Fowler is a prominent American trombone player and composer. He notably played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart, and in the Fowler Brothers Band...

, Walt Fowler, Arthur Barrow

Arthur Barrow

Arthur Barrow is a multi-instrumental musician, best known for his stint as a bass guitar player for Frank Zappa in the late 1970s and early 1980s.-Early life:...

, among others, on Jon Larsen

Jon Larsen

Jon Larsen is an autodidact guitarist, composer, surrealistic painter, and record producer with heavy influence on the revival of Gypsy jazz worldwide...

s Zonic Entertainment label.

Colaiuta also did work with Rob Chiarelli

Rob Chiarelli

Rob Chiarelli is an American record producer, mix engineer, musician and published author. Widely recognized as a music producer for Will Smith and Men in Black II , Chiarelli's work appears on numerous Gold and Platinum albums and motion picture soundtracks, including seven Grammy Award...

 on the Shine On! Songs Volume One

Shine On! Songs Volume One

Shine On! Songs Volume One is a charitable album released on September 30th, 2011 by the Shine On! Songs record label. The album's proceeds will go towards the foundation's programs to give Psychosocial support to children with cancer in Japan and their families, and an additional program to help...

 charitable album in support for those effected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

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Equipment

In 1990, Colaiuta teamed up with the Avedis Zildjian Cymbal company to create the A Custom line of cymbals, based on the A Zildjian cymbals. Colaiuta endorses Gretsch Drums

Gretsch Drums

Gretsch Drums is a leading drum manufacturing company, based in Ridgeland, South Carolina. Their motto is "That Great Gretsch Sound!"- History :...

 and has his own signature kit. He often uses USA Custom drums in Europe and his signature drums in the US and the Far East, but recently used the New Classic line of drums when touring with 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...

 and the Renown Maple series live with Jeff Beck. Colaiuta used a Renown Maple series drum-set in the Five Peace Band tour, but he was seen using his signature drums in Cork, Ireland

Cork (city)

Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...

.

With Frank Zappa

• Joe's Garage
  Joe's Garage
  Joe's Garage is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa. Zappa stated that along with Lumpy Gravy, this album was one of his finest achievements. It was originally released as two separate albums, the first comprising Act I, and the second part as a double-album which made up Acts II & III. All three...
  
  (1979)
• Saarbrucken (1979)
• Tinseltown Rebellion (1981)
• Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
  Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
  Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar is a triple vinyl album, originally issued mail order-only as three separate volumes, featuring live material recorded by Frank Zappa between February 1977 and December 1980. The final track, "Canard du Jour", is a duet with Frank Zappa on electric bouzouki and Jean-Luc...
  
  (1981)
• The Man From Utopia
  The Man from Utopia
  The Man from Utopia is a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. It is a more song-driven, and less conceptual work than many others in Zappa's oeuvre. The album is named after a 1950s song, written by Donald and Doris Woods, which Zappa covers as part of "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou".The sleeve art...
  
  (1983)
• Guitar (1988)
• Any Way the Wind Blows
  Beat the Boots
  Beat the Boots is a collection of bootleg recordings by Frank Zappa which were originally distributed illegally but were released officially by Rhino Entertainment in 1991. The recordings were available as individual CDs and as an LP or cassette box set...
  
  (1991)
• Strictly Commercial
  Strictly Commercial
  Strictly Commercial is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1995 , two years after his death.-Side one:#"Peaches en Regalia"#"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" #"Dancin' Fool"...
  
  (1995)
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
  You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
  You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 is a double disc set of live tracks by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1988 under the label Rykodisc.-Disc one:#"The Florida Airport Tape" – 1:03...
  
  (1995)
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
  You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
  You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 is a two-CD set of live recordings by Frank Zappa, recorded between 1969 and 1988, and released in 1991.-Disc one:#"Little Rubber Girl" - #*...
  
  (1995)
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
  You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
  You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 is the last of six double disc collection volumes of live performances by Frank Zappa recorded between 1970 and 1988. All of the material on Disc one has a sexual theme. It was released on October 23, 1992 under the label Rykodisc.-Disc one:#"The M.O.I...
  
  (1995)
• The Lost Episodes
  The Lost Episodes
  The Lost Episodes is a 1996 posthumous album by Frank Zappa which compiles previously unreleased material. Much of the material covered dates from early in his career, and as early as 1958, into the mid-1970s...
  
  (1996)
• Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute
  Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute
  Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute is a posthumous album by Frank Zappa.According to the liner notes, Frank's son Dweezil talked with his father shortly before Frank's death about the songs Frank had written that he would consider to be his "signature" tunes. These were...
  
  (1996)
• Have I Offended Someone?
  Have I Offended Someone?
  Have I Offended Someone? is a compilation album featuring music by Frank Zappa, and was posthumously released in 1997. As indicated by the title, it compiles a number of Zappa's songs that have gained notoriety as being particularly offensive, and often satirical or parodic...
  
  (1997)
• Son of Cheep Thrills
  Son of Cheep Thrills
  Son of Cheep Thrills is a compilation album by Frank Zappa, with material from previously released albums.* Original recordings produced by FZ.* Compiled by the original Joe Black.* Intramural sports by David Greenberg....
  
  (1999)
• Halloween (2003)
• Trance-Fusion
  Trance-Fusion
  Trance-Fusion is the name of an album of guitar solos completed by Frank Zappa shortly before his death, but not released until 2006. The album had previously been announced for release in 1999, and 2003 and again announced in 2005 in relation to the Zappa Plays Zappa tour...
  
  (2006)
• Buffalo
  Buffalo (album)
  Buffalo is a live album by Frank Zappa, released in 2007 as a two-CD set. It is the second installment on the Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of complete live shows of Zappa's...
  
  (2007)

With Joni Mitchell

• Wild Things Run Fast
  Wild Things Run Fast
  Wild Things Run Fast is Joni Mitchell's eleventh studio album and her first for Geffen Records. Released in 1982, it represents her departure from jazz to a more 80s pop sound....
  
  (1982)
• Dog Eat Dog (1985)
• Night Ride Home
  Night Ride Home
  Night Ride Home is the fourteenth album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1991. It was the last of four albums she recorded for Geffen Records....
  
  (1991)
• Hits
  Hits (Joni Mitchell album)
  Hits is a 1996 greatest hits compilation by Joni Mitchell. , it has sold 488,000 copies in the United States. A counterpart album, Misses, was released on the same day as Hits...
  
  (1996)
• Misses
  Misses (album)
  Misses is a 1996 compilation album by Joni Mitchell. The tracks were chosen by Mitchell herself, and her selections concentrate on her lesser known, more experimental work, including jazz influenced recordings from the late 1970s and electronic music from the 1980s. Mitchell also designed the album...
  
  (1996)
• Songs of a Prairie Girl
  Songs of a Prairie Girl
  Songs of a Prairie Girl is the third in Joni Mitchell's series of compilations. Mitchell writes in the liner notes to the CD that the compilation is her contribution to Saskatchewan's Centennial Celebration and that the songs of the album reference Saskatchewan...
  
  (2005)

With Sting

• Acoustic Live in Newcastle
  Acoustic Live in Newcastle
  Acoustic Live in Newcastle is the second live album released by Sting. It was recorded and released shortly after the studio album The Soul Cages, at the Buddle Arts Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on April 20, 1991...
  
  " (1992)
• Ten Summoner's Tales
  Ten Summoner's Tales
  Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the rock musician Sting. The title is a combined pun of his given name, Gordon Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner...
  
  (1993)
• Mercury Falling
  Mercury Falling
  Mercury Falling is the fifth studio album released by Sting. The album was marked by its tight studio production and use of brass reminiscent of recordings made at FAME Studios in the 1960s. This release was considered by many fans to signal the beginning of Sting's transition from heavier...
  
  (1996)
• Brand New Day (1999)
• Sacred Love
  Sacred Love
  Sacred Love is the seventh studio album by Sting. The album was released on 30 September 2003. The album featured smoother, R&B-style beats and experiments collaborating with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar player Anoushka Shankar...
  
  (2003)

Selected discography

• 2011 Jay Vaquer
  Jay Vaquer
  Jay Vaquer is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.Jay Vaquer was born in Rio de Janeiro. Son of Jay Anthony Vaquer and a brazilian singer Jane Duboc....
  
  , Umbigobunker!?
• 2011 Doug Lunn, The Doug Lunn Project
• 2010 Kermit Driscoll, Reveille
• 2010 Anna Mjöll, Christmas Jazzmaz
• 2010 Jeff Richman, Like That
• 2010 Brian Bromberg, Brian Bromberg Plays Jimi Hendrix
• 2010 Lee Ritenour
  Lee Ritenour
  Lee Mack Ritenour is an American jazz guitarist who has recorded over 42 albums, appeared on over 3000 sessions, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. One of his most popular songs was the smash hit, “Is It You” in 1981. Ritenour is considered to be a...
  
  , 6 String Theory
• 2010 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...
  
  , The Imagine Project
  The Imagine Project
  The Imagine Project is an album by Herbie Hancock released on June 22, 2010. The album, which was recorded in many locations throughout the world and features collaborations from various artists, was complemented by a documentary about the recording process. Hancock's interpretations of these songs...
  
  
• 2010 Jeff Beck
  Jeff Beck
  Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
  
  , Emotion & Commotion
  Emotion & Commotion
  Emotion & Commotion is the tenth studio album by guitarist Jeff Beck, released in April 2010 on ATCO Records. In addition to featuring vocal performances by Joss Stone, Imelda May and Olivia Safe, the album showcases a 64-piece orchestra on several tracks, and includes covers of well-known songs...
  
  
• 2010 Mark Egan
  Mark Egan
  Mark Egan is an American jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, arguably best known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980, and the Gil Evans Orchestra...
  
  , Truth Be Told
• 2009 The Mar Vista Philharmonic, No Forest Fire
• 2009 Luciana Souza, Tide
• 2009 Eros Ramazzotti, Ali e Radici
• 2009 Various Artists '80s Metal: A Double Dose
• 2009 Melody Gardot, My One & Only Thrill
• 2009 Five Peace Band
  Five Peace Band
  Five Peace Band is a post bop/jazz fusion quintet featuring Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Vinnie Colaiuta....
  
  , Five Peace Band (Live)
• 2009 Soup From 8 To Infinite
• 2009 James Newton Howard, Duplicity (Soundtrack)
• 2009 Torcuato Mariano, So Far from Home
• 2009 Madeleine Peyroux, Bare Bones
• 2008 Asia, Progressive Rock Friends
• 2009 Jeff Beck
  Jeff Beck
  Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
  
    Performing This Week: Live at Ronnie Scott's (Blu-ray DVD)
• 2008 Jeff Beck
  Jeff Beck
  Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
  
    Performing This Week...Live At Ronnie Scott's
• 2008 Luz Rios, Aire
• 2008 Brian Culbertson, Christmas & Hits Duos
• 2008 Megadeth, Anthology: Set the World AFire
• 2008 Various Artists Les Paul and Friends: Tribute to a Legend
• 2008 Simone Borghi, On Line
• 2008 River: The Joni Letters
  River: The Joni Letters
  River: The Joni Letters is the 2007 album by Herbie Hancock. His 47th studio album, it was released on September 25, 2007 by Verve Records. The tribute album is a homage to Joni Mitchell, a longtime associate and friend of Hancock...
  
  with 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...
  
  
• 2008 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...
  
  , Then & Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock
• 2008 Dave Koz
  Dave Koz
  Dave Koz is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.- Life and career :Dave Koz was born on March 27, 1963 in Encino, California....
  
  , Greatest Hits
• 2008 George Duke, Dukey Treats
• 2008 L.A. Chillharmonic, The L.A. Chillharmonic
• 2008 Glen Campbell, Meet Glen Campbell
• 2008 Vibes Alive, After Hours
• 2008 Los Temerarios, Si Tu Te Vas
• 2008 Leonard Cohen, The Collection
• 2008 Chanté Moore, Love The Woman
• 2008 Various Artists The Ultimate Tribute to Led Zeppelin
• 2008 LeAnn Rimes, Leann Rimes Collector's Edition Tin
• 2008 FJulia rancis, Lucky Penny
• 2008 Boyz II Men, Motown Hitsville Usa (Tour Edition) (W/DVD)
• 2008 Andrea Bocelli, Vivere: Best Of Andrea Bocelli (Bonus Track)
• 2008 Backstreet Boys, Unbreakable: Tour Edition (Bonus Dvd)
• 2008 Randy Jackson, Randy Jackson's Music Club
• 2008 Michael McDonald, Soul Peak
• 2008 Celine Dion, X2
• 2008 Ilona, Alla en el Sur
• 2007 Megadeth, Warchest
• 2007 Faith Hill, Hits
• 2007 Bill Medley, Damn Near Righteous
• 2007 Les Sabler, Sweet Drive
• 2007 Chris Botti, Italia
• 2007 Pat Monahan, The Last of Seven
• 2007 Oz Noy, Fuzzy
• 2007 Kristina Kovac, U nebranom grožđu
• 2007 Travis Tritt, The Storm
• 2007 Dean Martin, Forever Cool
• 2007 Billy Cyrus, Ray Home At Last
• 2007 Various Artists Freeway Jam: To Beck and Back
• 2007 Mark Isaacs, Resurgence
• 2007 Michael Bublé, Call Me Irresponsible
• 2007 Brian Buckley, For Her
• 2007 Jeff Babko, Mondo Trio
• 2007 Jeff Lorber, He Had a Hat
• 2007 Daniel Lee Martin, On My Way to You
• 2007 Various Artists We All Love Ennio Morricone
• 2007 Brian Bromberg, Downright Upright
• 2007 Jill Scott, Jill Scott Collaborations
• 2007 Wayne Bergeron, Plays Well With Others
• 2006 Various Artists Legends Of Jazz With Ramsey Lewis Box Set
• 2006 Laura Pausini, Yo Canto
• 2006 Michelle Tumes
  Michelle Tumes
  Michelle Tumes is a popular Australian Contemporary Christian musician. Michelle was born in Adelaide, Australia.-Career:Tumes first signed with an Australian publisher, but soon after moved to the United States to write songs for CCM musicians such as Jaci Velasquez...
  
   Michelle Tumes
• 2006 Josh Groban
  Josh Groban
  Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. His four solo albums have been certified at least multi-platinum, and in 2007, he was charted as the number-one best selling artist in the United States with over 21 million records in that country...
  
  , Awake
  Awake (Josh Groban album)
  Awake is a platinum-certified album by the American singer-songwriter Josh Groban. Announced on September 13, 2006, it is Groban's third studio album, and a follow-up to his multi-platinum album Closer. Awake was released on November 7, 2006....
  
  
• 2006 Brian Culbertson
  Brian Culbertson
  Brian Culbertson is a musician and instrumentalist from Decatur, Illinois, United States. Son of jazz band director and trumpeter Jim Culbertson, Brian's instruments include the keyboard and trombone....
  
   Soulful Christmas
• 2006 George Benson
  George Benson
  George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....
  
   Givin' It Up
• 2006 Scott Kinsey, Kinesthetics
• 2006 Bette Midler
  Bette Midler
  Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...
  
  , Cool Yule
  Cool Yule
  Cool Yule is a holiday album by Bette Midler released on October 10, 2006. The album features many Christmas tunes as well as a reworking of her Grammy-winning hit "From a Distance"....
  
  
• 2006 James Taylor
  James Taylor
  James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
  
  James Taylor at Christmas
• 2006 Kazu Matsui Project, Pioneer
• 2006 Jeff Berlin, Aneurythms
• 2006 The Ten Tenors, Here's to the Heroes
• 2006 Sam Moore, Overnight Sensational
• 2006 Richard Bona, Tiki
• 2006 Lee Ritenour, Smoke 'n' Mirrors
• 2006 Joanna, This Crazy Life
• 2006 Greg Adams, Cool To The Touch
• 2006 Various Artists Summer Jam Session
• 2006 Dan Siegel, Departure
• 2006 Various Artists '80s Metal Tribute to Van Halen
• 2006 LeAnn Rimes, Whatever We Wanna
• 2006 Michael Franks, Rendezvous in Rio
• 2006 Matt Dusk, Back in Town
• 2006 Katharine McPhee, My Destiny / Somewhere Over the Rainbow CD-SINGLE
• 2006 Gregg Rolie, Gringo
• 2006 John McLaughlin, Industrial Zen
  Industrial Zen
  Industrial Zen is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 2006 through the record label C&B Media. The album reached number nine on Billboards Top Jazz Albums chart....
  
  
• 2006 Marilyn Scott, Innocent of Nothing
• 2006 Various Artists Return to the Dark Side of the Moon: A Tribute to Pink Floyd
• 2006 Various Artists The Royal Dan: A Tribute
• 2006 Amy Sky, Life Lessons: The Best of Amy Sky
• 2006 Jeff Beck, Official Bootleg USA '06
• 2006 Various Artists Legends of Jazz Showcase
• 2006 Rob Whitlock, Sketchin' 2
• 2006 Erin Boheme, What Love Is
• 2006 Tom Scott, The Very Best of Tom Scott
• 2006 Various Artists Pink Floyd's The Wall Revisited
• 2006 Brian Bromberg, Wood II
• 2006 Various Artists Flying High Again: The World's Greatest Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
• 2006 Various Artists Funk Academy
• 2006 Frank Macchia, Mo' Animals
• 2006 Chick Corea, The Ultimate Adventure
• 2006 Bunny Brunel, Dedication
• 2006 Andrea Bocelli, Amore
• 2006 Various Artists More or Less Jazz Two
• 2006 Jeff Berlin, Ace of Bass
• 2005 Ashley Maher, Flying Over Bridges
• 2005 Ricardo Arjona, Adentro
• 2005 Anastacia, Pieces of a Dream
• 2005 Eros Ramazzotti, Calma Apparente
• 2005 Burt Bacharach, At This Time
• 2005 Destiny's Child, #1's
• 2005 Various Artists Revolution Of The Spirit
• 2005 Chris Botti, To Love Again
• 2005 Various Artists 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas
• 2005 P.J. Olsson, Beautifully Insane
• 2005 David Garfield, The State Of Things
• 2005 Kyle Eastwood, Paris Blue
• 2005 Beppe Cantarelli, Blues, Rock & Soul
• 2005 Pussycat Dolls, PCD
• 2005 Bill Evans, Soulgrass
• 2005 David Pack, The Secret Of Movin' On
• 2005 Various Artists The Loner - A Tribute To Jeff Beck
• 2005 Marilyn Scott, Handpicked
• 2005 Faith Hill, Fireflies
• 2005 Various Guitarists Fusion For Miles
• 2005 Amber Whitlock, The Colours Of Life
• 2005 Various Artists Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse
• 2005 Eric Benet, Hurricane
• 2005 Bob Bennett, Lord of the Past
• 2005 Backstreet Boys, Never Gone
• 2005 Paul Anka, Rock Swings
• 2005 Allan Holdsworth, Against the Clock: The Best of Allan Holdsworth
• 2005 Jakob Magnusson, Time Zone
• 2005 Various Artists Welcome to the Nightmare: An All-Star Salute to Alice Cooper
• 2005 Marta Sanchez, Lo Mejor de Marta Sanchez
• 2005 Michael Bublé, It's Time
• 2005 Rob Whitlock, Sketchin'
• 2005 LeAnn Rimes, This Woman
• 2005 Julia Fordham, That's Live
• 2004 Frank Macchia, Animals
• 2004 Lindsay Lohan, Speak
• 2004 Vito Rezza, Drums of Avila
• 2004 Clay Aiken, Merry Christmas with Love
• 2004 Marco Antonio Solís, Razon De Sobra
• 2004 James Taylor, James Taylor: A Christmas Album
  James Taylor: A Christmas Album
  James Taylor: A Christmas Album is singer-songwriter James Taylor's 21st album and first Christmas album. It was released on a limited-edition basis in 2004, with distribution through Hallmark Cards.-Track listing:...
  
  
• 2004 Michael McDonald, Motown Two
• 2004 Jaffe, Something To Fall Back On
• 2004 Joe Cocker, Heart and Soul
• 2004 Various Artists Shall We Dance? (Soundtrack)
• 2004 Various Artists American Drummers Achievement Awards Honoring Steve Gadd
• 2004 Chris Botti, When I Fall In Love
• 2004 Hilary Duff, Hilary Duff
• 2004 Queen Latifah, Dana Owens Album
• 2004 Megadeth
  Megadeth
  Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
  
   The System Has Failed
  The System Has Failed
  -Songs:* "Blackmail the Universe" has numerous quotes from the movie Thirteen Days, which was about the Cuban Missile Crisis.* "Die Dead Enough" was released as a single, and was originally set to be featured in the movie Saw, but it was not used for undisclosed reasons.* "The Scorpion" was...
  
  
• 2004 Marilyn Scott, Nightcap
• 2004 Greg Mathieson, West Coast Groove
• 2004 Original Score Bourne Supremacy
• 2004 Jing Chi, 3D
• 2004 David Benoit, Benoit/Freeman Project 2
• 2004 Dianne Schuur, Rediscovery On GRP
• 2004 Various Artists Smooth Jazz: Cruisin
• 2004 Karizma, Lost and Found
• 2004 Renee Olstead, Renee Olstead
• 2004 Jim Brickman, Greatest Hits
• 2004 Various Artists Tribute To Jimi Hendrix: Power Of Soul
• 2004 Various Artists Spin The Bottle: Tribute To Kiss
• 2004 Vasco Rossi, Buoni O Cattivi
• 2004 Robi Rosa, Draco Mad Love
• 2004 Kimo Williams, Kimotion Live 2002 - With My Friend Vinnie
• 2004 John Wesley Harding, Adam's Apple
• 2004 Various Artists Tribute To Aerosmith
• 2004 Abe Laboriel, Live in Switzerland
• 2004 Mike Stern, These Times
• 2003 Clay Aiken, Measure of a Man
• 2003 Ilse Delange, Clean Up
• 2003 Richard Bona, Munia: The Tale
• 2003 Alejandro Sanz, No Es Lo Mismo
• 2003 Marcos Witt, Vivencias
• 2003 Nate Sallie, Inside Out
• 2003 Randy Waldman, Timing Is Everything
• 2003 Jing Chi, Jing Chi Live at Yoshi's
• 2003 Cave Men, Cave Men
• 2003 David Garfield, Giving Back
• 2003 Various Artists (Sting) The Very Best of MTV Unplugged 2
• 2003 Michael Bublé, Michael Bublé
• 2003 Bill Evans, Big Fun
• 2003 Jeff Richman, One Two
• 2003 Stanley Clarke, 1 2 to the Bass
• 2003 Andy Summers, Earth + Sky
• 2002 Laura Pausini, From The Inside
• 2002 Faith Hill, Cry
• 2002 Dana Glover, Testimony
• 2002 LeAnn Rimes, Twisted Angel
• 2002 Bob James, Morning Noon & Night
• 2002 Jack Russell, For You
• 2002 Various Artists - Pop (Sting) The Very Best of MTV Unplugged
• 2002 Various Artists Let's Roll: Together in Unity, Faith and Hope
• 2002 Robben Ford, Blue Moon
• 2002 Original Soundtrack Queen of the Damned
• 2002 Take 6, Beautiful World
• 2002 Various Artists An All Star Lineup Performing The Songs Of Pink Floyd
• 2002 Jing Chi, Jing Chi
• 2002 Lee Ritenour, Rit's House
• 2001 Chris Botti, Night Sessions
• 2001 Alejandro Sanz, MTV Unplugged
• 2001 Jann Arden, Greatest Hurts: The Best of Jann Arden
• 2001 Barbra Streisand, Christmas Memories
• 2001 The Martins, Glorify Edify Testify
• 2001 Kimo Williams, Tracking
• 2001 SHeDAISY, Whole SHeBANG: All Mixed Up
• 2001 Richard Bona, Reverence
• 2001 Dyno Four, Live at the Baked Potato 2000
• 2001 Mike Stern, Voices
• 2001 Various Artists Live at the Baked Potato - Vol. Two
• 2001 Michelle Branch, Spirit Room
• 2001 Randy Waldman, UnReel
• 2001 Yumi Matsutoya, Acacia
• 2001 Asia, Aura
• 2001 Various Artists Modern Drummer Festival 2000
• 2001 Marcus Miller, M2 (M Squared)
• 2001 Various Artists Live at the Baked Potato - Vol. One
• 2001 Stevie Nicks, Trouble In Shangri-La
• 2001 Rich Ruttenberg, Angora Station
• 2001 Karizma, Document
• 2001 Aydin Esen, Living
• 2001 Vasco Rossi, Stupido Hotel
• 2001 Amy Sky, Phenomenal Woman
• 2001 John Beasley, Surfacing
• 2000 Christina Aguilera, My Kind of Christmas
• 2000 T-Square, Friendship
• 2000 Chaka Khan, The Jazz Channel Presents Chaka Khan
• 2000 Quincy Jones & Sammy Nestico, Basie and Beyond
• 2000 Ivan Lins, A Love Affair: The Music of Ivan Lins
• 2000 Gianni Morandi, Come Fa Bene l'Amore
• 2000 Melvin Davis, Lee Tomorrow's Yesterday
• 2000 Various Artists Bat Head Soup: A Tribute to Ozzy
• 2000 Brenda Russell, Paris Rain
• 2000 Crystal Lewis, Fearless
• 2000 Los Lobotomys, Los Lobotomys
• 2000 Mike Figgis, Time Code Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• 2000 Melissa Ferrick, Freedom
• 2000 Lothar Kosse, Rainmaker
• 2000 Larry Carlton, Fingerprints
• 2000 Jason Miles / Various Artists Celebrating the Music of Weather Report
• 2000 Steely Dan, Two Against Nature
• 1999 David Benoit, Professional Dreamer
• 1999 Ron Kenoly, We Offer Praises
• 1999 Enrique Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias
• 1999 Kenny Pore, Sessions, Vol. 2
• 1999 Kenny Pore, Sessions, Vol. 1
• 1999 Luis Miguel, Amarte Es Un Placer
• 1999 Various Artists Not the Same Old Song & Dance: Aerosmith Tribute
• 1999 Robben Ford, Supernatural
• 1999 BAL, Sometime Soon
• 1999 Bill Evans, Touch
• 1999 Tom Scott, Smokin' Section
• 1999 Frank Quintero, Bien
• 1998 Gianni Morandi, Celeste Azzurro E Blue
• 1998 Jewel, Spirit
• 1998 Gitte Haenning, My Favorite Songs
• 1998 Vasco Rossi, Canzoni Per Me
• 1998 Various Artists Outlandos D'Americas: A Rock En Espanol Tribute To The Police
• 1998 Myriam Hernandez, Todo el Amor
• 1998 Barry Finnerty, Space Age Blues
• 1998 Tony Darren, Sun Song
• 1998 Randy Waldman, Wigged Out
• 1997 Rita Lee, Santa Rita De Sampa
• 1997 Celine Dion, Let's Talk About Love
• 1997 Victor Feldman, Fiesta & More
• 1997 David Garfield, Tribute to Jeff
• 1997 Billy Joel, Greatest Hits Vol. 3
• 1997 James Horner, Cocoon Soundtrack
• 1997 Leonard Cohen, More Best of Leonard Cohen
• 1997 Bill Evans, Starfish And The Moon
• 1997 Chick Corea, Live From Blue Note Tokyo
• 1997 Various Artists Carnival: Rainforest Foundation Concert
• 1997 Steve Tavaglione, Blue Tav
• 1997 New Spirits in Jazz, New Spirits in Jazz - Vol. 3
• 1996 Michael Landau, Tales From the Bulge
• 1996 Vasco Rossi, Nessun Pericolo...Per Te
• 1996 Sergio Mendes, Oceano
• 1996 Vonda Shepard, It's Good Eve
• 1996 Various Artists Sanctuary: 20 Years of Windham Hill
• 1996 Warren Cuccurullo, Thanks to Frank
• 1996 Eros Ramazzotti, Donde Hay Musica
• 1996 Elio E Le Storie Tese, Eat The Phikis
• 1996 Eros Ramazzotti, Dove C' E Musica
• 1996 Clannad, Lore
• 1995 SMAP, 007 Gold Singer
• 1995 Umberto Fiorentino, Ulisse
• 1995 Simple Minds, Good News from the Next World
• 1995 Don Henley, Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits
• 1995 David Sanborn, Love Songs
• 1995 Melissa Manchester, If My Heart Had Wings
• 1995 Curtis Stigers, Time Was
• 1995 Dan Fogelberg, No Resemblance Whatsoever
• 1995 Bobby Caldwell, Soul Survivor
• 1995 John McLaughlin, The Promise
• 1995 Drupi, Voglio Una Donna
• 1994 Diane Schuur, Heart to Heart
• 1994 Cristian, El Camino del Alma
• 1994 Rosco Martinez, Aqui Estoy
• 1994 4Him, The Ride
• 1994 Vinnie Colaiuta, Vinnie Colaiuta
• 1994 Temptations, Emperors of Soul
• 1994 Third Matinee, Meanwhile
• 1994 Roberto Carlos, Voce E Minha
• 1994 Brandon Fields, Brandon Fields
• 1993 Sonya Jason, Tigress
• 1993 Jevetta Steele, Here It Is
• 1993 Buell Neidlinger Quartet, Big Drum
• 1993 Air Supply, Vanishing Race
• 1993 Jeff Beal, Three Graces
• 1993 Ray Charles, My World
• 1993 Yutaka, Another Sun
• 1993 Duran Duran, The Wedding Album
• 1993 Tim Weston, Providence
• 1993 Kal David, Double Tuff
• 1992 Various Artists GRP 10th Anniversary Collection
• 1992 Leonard Cohen, The Future
• 1992 Shawn Colvin, Fat City
• 1992 Allan Holdsworth, Wardenclyffe Tower
• 1992 Tom Lellis, Taken to Heart
• 1992 Brunel, Bunny Dedication
• 1992 Gloria Trevi, Me Siento Tan Sola
• 1992 Brenda Russell, Greatest Hits
• 1992 Pat Kelley, High Heels
• 1992 Jennifer Warnes, The Hunter
• 1992 Rodney Crowell, Life Is Messy
• 1992 Tony Banks, Still
• 1992 Helen Hoffner, Wild About Nothing
• 1992 Brandon Fields, Other Places
• 1992 Tom Fowler, Heartscapes
• 1992 Go West, Indian Summer
• 1991 Various Artists For The Boys: Music From The Motion Picture
• 1991 Eric Marienthal, Crossroads
• 1991 Julia Fordham, Swept
• 1991 Everything But the Girl, Worldwide
• 1991 Ricky Peterson, Smile Blue
• 1991 Windham Hill Records Sampler, Windham Hill Sampler '92
• 1991 Bob Malach, Mood Swing
• 1991 Toni Childs, House of Hope
• 1991 Ivan Lins, Awa Yi
• 1991 Doug Cameron, Journey to You
• 1991 Claus Ogerman, Claus Ogerman Featuring Michael Brecker
• 1991 Dan Siegel, Going Home
• 1991 Rick Astley, Free
• 1991 Eddie Daniels, This Is Now
• 1990 Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series, Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
• 1990 Ricardo Silveira, Amazon Secrets
• 1990 David Baerwald, Bedtime Stories
• 1990 Vernell Brown, A Total Eclipse
• 1990 Ricky Peterson, Night Watch
• 1990 David Benoit, Inner Motion
• 1990 Ashley Maher, Hi
• 1990 Kimo Williams, War Stories
• 1990 Everything But the Girl, The Language of Life
• 1990 Bill Meyers, The Colour Of The Truth
• 1990 Barbara Higbie, Signs of Life
• 1990 Michael Franks, Blue Pacific
• 1990 Steve Bach, Nice Moves
• 1990 Beth Nielsen Chapman, Beth Nielsen Chapman
• 1990 Barry Manilow, Barry Because It's Christmas
• 1990 Paul Young, Other Voices
• 1990 Darlene Love, Paint Another Picture
• 1990 Monna Bell, Monna Bell Ahora
• 1990 Rippingtons, Welcome to the St. James' Club
• 1990 John Patitucci, Sketchbook
• 1989 Philip Aaberg, Upright
• 1989 Frank Gambale, Thunder from Down Under
• 1989 Dreamstreet II, No Limit
• 1989 Sadao Watanabe, Selected
• 1989 Wang Chung, The Warmer Side of Cool
• 1989 Barry Manilow, Barry Manilow
• 1989 Keiko Matsui, Drop of Water
• 1989 Nik Kershaw, The Works
• 1989 John Patitucci, On the Corner
• 1989 Indio, Big Harvest
• 1989 The Beach Boys, Still Cruisin'
• 1989 Allan Holdsworth, Secrets
• 1989 Julian Lennon, Mr. Jordan
• 1989 Victor Feldman, The Best of Feldman and the Generation Band
• 1989 Keiko Matsui, No Borders
• 1989 Keiko Matsui, Under Northern Lights
• 1989 Doug Cameron, Mil Amores
• 1989 Dan Siegel, Late One Night
• 1988 Robben Ford, Talk to Your Daughter
• 1988 David Sanborn, Close-Up
• 1988 Rippingtons, Kilimanjaro
• 1988 Peabo Bryson, Positive
• 1988 Suzanne Dean, Dreams Come True
• 1988 Jeff Richman, The Way In
• 1988 Yutaka, Yutaka
• 1988 Tori Amos's Y Kant Tori Read, Y Kant Tori Read
• 1988 Brenda Russell, Get Here
• 1988 Les McCann, Butterfly
• 1988 John Patitucci, John Patitucci
• 1988 Various Artists GRP Christmas Collection
• 1988 Kazu Matsui, Time No Longer
• 1988 Patti Austin, The Real Me
• 1988 Perri, The Flight
• 1988 Al Stewart, Last Days of the Century
• 1988 The Fowler Brothers, Breakfast for Dinosaurs
• 1988 Djavan, Bird of Paradise
• 1988 Claus Ogerman, Claus Ogerman Featuring Michael Brecker
• 1988 Sam Riney, At Last
• 1988 Sam Riney, Lay It on the Line
• 1988 Tom Scott, Flashpoint
• 1988 Brandon Fields, Traveler
• 1988 Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man
• 1987 Eric Marienthal, Voices of the Heart
• 1987 Bryan Ferry, Bête Noire
• 1987 GRP All Stars, GRP Super Live in Concert
• 1987 Julie Brown, Trapped in Body of a White Girl
• 1987 Clare Fischer, Memento
• 1987 Tom Scott, Streamlines
• 1987 George Benson, Collaboration
• 1987 Frank Quintero, Buscando Soles
• 1987 Joyride, Joyride
• 1987 Martha Davis, Policy
• 1987 Eric Martin, I'm Only Fooling Myself
• 1987 Jack Wagner, Don't Give Up Your Day Job
• 1987 Doug Cameron, Passion Suite
• 1987 Five Star, Between The Lines
• 1987 Gregg Rolie, Gringo
• 1987 Pat Kelley, Views of the Future
• 1987 Sadao Watanabe, Birds of Passage
• 1987 Lee Ritenour, Portrait
• 1987 Dan Siegel, Northern Nights
• 1987 Jennifer Warnes, Famous Blue Raincoat
• 1987 Sadao Watanabe, Birds of Passage
• 1987 Malta, My Ballads
• 1987 Barry Manilow, Swing Street
• 1986 Billy Joel, The Bridge
• 1986 Jakob Magnusson, Time Zone
• 1986 Indra Lesmana, For Earth and Heaven
• 1986 Barnaby Finch, Digital Madness
• 1986 Bill Meyers, Images
• 1986 Temptations, To Be Continued...
• 1986 Stone Fury, Let Them Talk
• 1985 Olivia Newton-John, Soul Kiss
• 1985 Doug Cameron, Freeway Mentality
• 1985 The Commodores, Night Shift
• 1985 Jeff Richman, Himalaya
• 1985 Barry Finnerty, Lights On Broadway
• 1985 Michael Sembello, Without Walls
• 1985 Maurice White, Maurice White
• 1985 Joe Lamont, Secret You Keep
• 1984 Kenny Pore, Inner City Dreams
• 1984 Kazu Matsui Project, Standing in the Wings
• 1984 Kazu Matsui Project, Is That The Way To Your Heart?
• 1984 Pastiche, That's R & B-Bop
• 1984 Victor Feldman, Fiesta
• 1984 Matthew Wilder, Bouncin' off the Walls
• 1984 Poco, Inamorata
• 1984 Barbra Streisand, Emotion
• 1983 Sergio Mendes, Sergio Mendes
• 1983 Helen Reddy, Imagination
• 1983 Kazu Matsui Project, Standing On The Outside
• 1983 Paul Anka, Walk A Fine Line
• 1983 Peter Allen, Not The Boy Next Door
• 1983 Nielson/Pearson Band, Blind Luck
• 1983 Juice Newton, Dirty Looks
• 1983 Michael Sembello, Bossa Nova Hotel
• 1982 Tom Scott, Desire
• 1982 Andre Heller, Verwunschen
• 1982 Barry Manilow, I Wanna Do It With You
• 1982 Tiger Okoshi, Mudd Cake
• 1982 Logic System, Venus
• 1982 Barry Finnerty, New York City
• 1982 Patrick Williams, Dreams And Themes
• 1982 Kazu Matsui Project, The Direction West
• 1982 Clare Fischer, Blues Trilogy
• 1982 Judy Collins, Time Of Our Lives
• 1982 Juice Newton, Juice/Quiet Lies
• 1982 Bill Medley, Right Here And Now
• 1982 Al Kooper, Championship Wrestling
• 1981 Pages, Pages
• 1981 Richard Perry, Swing
• 1981 Tiger Okoshi, Tiger's Baku
• 1980 Gino Vannelli, Nightwalker
• 1979 Lee Ritenour, Collection
• 1977 Christopher Morris Band, Christopher Morris Band

External links

• Official site
• Interview with Colaiuta in Modern Drummer
• Drummerworld