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Gadditude is a 2013 jazz fusion album by the Steve Gadd Band, featuring a core group of musicians who also formed the touring band for James Taylor. The album is noted for blending genres like soul, jazz, funk, and 1970s fusion, with a focus on collective grooves and feel over individual showmanship. 

Reviewers praised the album’s relaxed feel, borne from the musicians’ familiarity with each other as James Taylor’s touring band. Critics noted that while Gadd doesn’t deliver extensive solos, his drumming provides the strong rhythmic foundations and grooves that support the music. The band’s ability to convincingly bend genres and incorporate diverse styles, such as a country-infused rendition of Keith Jarrett’s “Country” and a re-imagining of Radiohead’s “Scatterbrain” as a jazz standard, was also highlighted.

Track listing:
1 Africa (Michael Landau) 8:08
2 Ask Me (Larry Goldings) 7:46
3 Country (Keith Jarrett) 5:58
4 Cavaliero (Larry Goldings) 6:40
5 Green Foam (Steve Gadd, Walt Fowler, Larry Goldings, Jimmy Johnson, Michael Landau) 6:12
6 The Mountain (Abdullah Ibrahim) 6:11
7 Who Knows Blues (Michael Landau) 5:55
8 The Windup (Keith Jarrett) 5:40
9 Scatterbrain (Thomas Yorke, Philip Selway, Edward O’Brien, Jonathan Greenwood, Colin Greenwood) 4:20

Personnel:

Bass – Jimmy Johnson
Drums – Steve Gadd
Guitar – Michael Landau
Keyboards – Larry Goldings
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Walt Fowler

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Label: BFM Jazz – 302 062 418 2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2013