 | Performing This Week: Live at Ronnie Scott's
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $12.00 Vinnie's most recent live masterwork. Get the DVD as now you'll see him play and appreciate him all the more. Jeff Beck is not so shabby either! (Also on CD)
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 | Document by Karizma
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $13.50 Vinnie - live with the opportunity to really play. Yes, he played brilliantly with Sting but here he is in another dimension! Perhaps a benchmark album for all other drummers.
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 | Five Peace Band Live by John McLaughlin
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $14.47 A master musician jazz class - sublime interplay. Vinnie is surely the only jazz drummer who has played with the greats like Chick, Herbie and John McLaughlin yet can groove with Robben Ford or double frenzy mayhem with Megadeth.
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 | Fusion for Miles: A Guitar Tribute by Various Artists
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.69 A hidden gem, beautifully recorded and shining example of a drummer giving an album life! Plus you get to hear some incredible guitarists: Mike Stern, Bill Connors, Eric Johnson, Jimmy Herring, Birelli Lagrene.
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 | 3D by Jing Chi
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $38.03 Surprisingly hard fusion (Holdsworth and Hendrix tones to Ford's playing - some of the heaviest I have heard from him) to more ambient sounds and then straight blues. Vinnie definitely plays out on this one plus a number of his own compositions. A really live sound to the recording of the drums - full and resonant.
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 | Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar by Frank Zappa
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.99 Intense music but such incredible interpretation and following by Vinnie. This Zappa album and Joe's Garage are listed as some of Vinnie's first great early moments on the drums. Have stood the test of time!
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 | Secrets by Allan Holdsworth
Buy used from: $35.66 Pretty impressive that Vinnie plays with all the great guitarists - Holdsworth, Beck, Landau, Zappa, Stern, Ford. Some sublime tracks on this one. Vinnie very free on this album - chops galore but always within the vision that Holdsworth has. Both ream away!
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 | Ten Summoner's Tales by Sting
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $0.24 Only Vinnie and Sting could play with time on a hit pop song and make it work! What craftmanship. Brilliant pop rock drumming - listen to tracks "Seven days" and "Saint Augustine in hell".
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 | Talk to Your Daughter by Robben Ford
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.69 Yes, he's played every genre and style convincingly. Here he supports and cajoles, weaving the magic that restrained blues drumming needs.
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 | Live in Switzerland by Abe Laboriel & Friends
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $35.00 A live recording playing fusion jazz but so in the pocket! Great, great solo and combining with Abe is cool! Worth seeking this out.
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 | River: The Joni Letters (with Bonus Tracks) - Amazon.com Exclusive by Herbie Hancock
Buy used from: $27.98 Surprisingly such a straightahead jazz record for compositions by a pop artist, Mitchel. Hancock has got rave reviews for this grammy award winning album! (Be warned there is more use of gentle brush strokes than any playing out. So no fireworks here if that's what you yearn for.)
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 | Voices by Mike Stern
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $4.34 Playing on 6 of these tracks, Vinnie adds his impeccable groove. (Dennis Chambers is on the other 3 tracks.)This album I keep for the finale monster track with Brecker and Vinnie's solo romp. (I think this is the last Brecker and Stern track together).
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 | Vinnie Colaiuta by Vinnie Colaiuta
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.57 Vinnie's only solo album - shows a variety of jazzy styles. Listen to the Amazon sample 'I'm tweaked/ Attack of the 20lb pizza' for some out there playing.
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 | Jing Chi Live at Yoshi's by Jing Chi
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.23 Live with more room to strut his stuff with the great company of Robben Ford and Jimmy Haslip plus guests. (But rather choose 'Document' if you want to be blown away!)
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 | Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Tribute in Guitar by Various Artists
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.27 Another winner from the Tone Center. Vinnie is the glue that holds this album together and has obviously been told to play out...solos and fills galore - from funk to heavy fusion. Amazing!
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