thumb|300px|right|Dave Weckl live with the Mike Stern Band in 2009

thumb|300px|right|Playing with the [[Chick Corea Elektric Band at the Blue Note in New York in December 2007]]

Dave Weckl (born January 8, 1960, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American jazz fusion drummer and the leader of the Dave Weckl Band. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2000.

Biography

Weckl started playing his first set of drums at age 8 in his spare room along with records. Weckl studied at the University of Bridgeport.

As sideman

With Bill Connors

  • Step It (Pathfinder, 1984 [1985])

With Gerry Niewood

  • Share My Dream (DMP, 1985)

With Mike Stern

  • Upside Downside (1986)

With Chuck Loeb and Andy LaVerne

  • Magic Fingers (DMP, 1989)

With Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

  • Always (Columbia, 1993)

With Steve Khan

  • Public Access (GRP, 1991)
  • J.K. Special (Lipstick, 1993)

With the GRP All-Star Big Band

  • GRP All-Star Big Band (GRP, 1992)
  • Dave Grusin Presents GRP All-Star Big Band Live! (GRP, 1993)
  • All Blues (GRP, 1995)

With Dave Grusin

  • The Gershwin Collection (GRP 1991)
  • Dave Grusin Presents West Side Story (GRP 1997)

With Nick Levinovsky

  • Special Opinion (Butman Music, 2013)

With Chris Minh Doky

  • CMD & The Nomads (Red Dot, 2014)

With School of the Arts featuring T Lavitz

  • School of the Arts (Magnatude, 2007)

With Omar Faqir:

  • 2018 – Pulse Album Now & Forever & Giant Sticks

Videos

  • 1988 – Back to Basics (DCI music)
  • 1990 – The Next Step (DCI music)
  • 1993 – Working It Out: Latin Percussion I - With Walfredo Reyes, Sr. (DCI music)
  • 1993 – Working It Out: Latin Percussion II - With Walfredo Reyes, Sr. (DCI Music)
  • 2000 – How to Develop Your Own Sound (Carl Fischer publishing)
  • 2000 – How to Practice (Carl Fischer publishing)
  • 2000 – How to Develop Technique (Carl Fischer publishing)
  • 2015 - Flies on The Studio Wall / Convergence Behind The Scenes (DVD, Bluray)

Books

  • 1988 – Back to Basics
  • 1992 – The Next Step (Manhattan Music)
  • 1994 – Contemporary Drummer + One (Manhattan Music)
  • 1997 – Ultimate Play-Along for Drums level I vol. I (Alfred Publishing Company)
  • 1997 – Ultimate Play-Along for Drums level I vol. II (Alfred Publishing Company)
  • 2001 – In Session with the Dave Weckl Band (Carl Fischer Music)
  • 2004 – Exercises for Natural Playing (Carl Fischer Music)

References

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  • Dave Weckl profile, Drummerworld; accessed August 4, 2015.
  • Dave Weckl profile, OnlineDrummer.com; accessed August 4, 2015.
  • Dave Weckl Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2008)
  • Official site