Jeff Porcaro – Biography, Discography & Instruments

Biography

Jeff Porcaro was a jazz musician who played drum kit. Jeff Porcaro was born on 1 April 1954 in Hartford and died on 5 August 1992 in Hollywood. The music is usually filed under pop music and rock music.

Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer and songwriter. He is best known for being the co-founder and drummer of the rock band Toto, but he is also one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he came to prominence in the US as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied (1975). AllMusic has characterized Porcaro as "arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s", stating that "it is no exaggeration to say that the sound of mainstream pop/rock drumming in the 1980s was, to a large extent, the sound of Jeff Porcaro." He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1993.

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Albums where Jeff Porcaro is credited as a sideman

1974	Pretzel Logic — Steely Dan	drums (drum set)
1975	Katy Lied — Steely Dan	drums (drum set), percussion
1975	Teaser — Tommy Bolin	drums (drum set)
1976	Silk Degrees — Boz Scaggs	drums (drum set), timbales
1977	Streisand Superman — Barbra Streisand	instruments
1977	Captain Fingers — Lee Ritenour	drums (drum set)
1977	Down Two Then Left — Boz Scaggs	drums (drum set), timbales
1977	Road To Tomorrow — Chi Coltrane	membranophone
1978	Songbird — Barbra Streisand	drums (drum set)
1978	Toto — Toto	percussion, drums (drum set)
1978	Energy — The Pointer Sisters	membranophone
1978	Modern Man — Stanley Clarke	drums (drum set)
1978	Larry Carlton — Larry Carlton	drums (drum set)
1979	Wet — Barbra Streisand	drums (drum set)
1979	Hydra — Toto	drums (drum set), percussion
1979	Betcha — Stanley Turrentine	membranophone
1979	Extensions — The Manhattan Transfer	drums (drum set), bongos, anvil
1980	Gaucho — Steely Dan	drums (drum set)
1980	Middle Man — Boz Scaggs	drums (drum set)
1981	Breakin’ Away — Al Jarreau	drums (drum set)
1981	Songs of the Beatles — Sarah Vaughan	percussion
1981	Turn Back — Toto	drums (drum set), percussion
1981	Secret Combination — Randy Crawford	drums (drum set)
1981	Rit — Lee Ritenour	membranophone
1982	Lite Me Up — Herbie Hancock	drums (drum set)
1982	Toto IV — Toto	drums (drum set), percussion, gong
1982	Windsong — Randy Crawford	membranophone, drums (drum set)
1982	Sleepwalk — Larry Carlton	drums (drum set)
1982	The Nightfly — Donald Fagen	drums (drum set)
1983	Jarreau — Al Jarreau	drums (drum set), percussion