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James Beck "Jim" Gordon (born July 14, 1945) is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. The Grammy Award winner was a very frequently used session drummer in the late 1960s and 1970s, recording with many well-known musicians of the time, and was the drummer in the blues rock supergroup Derek and the Dominos, and for Little Richard and Delaney & Bonnie. Gordon played drums on George Harrison's 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass''. In 1983, Gordon, at the time an undiagnosed schizophrenic, murdered his mother and was sentenced to sixteen years to life in prison. ==Music career== Gordon was raised in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles and attended Grant High School.〔Kent Hartman, ''The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret'' (Macmillan Publishers, 2012), ISBN 978-0312619749, p. 235. (Excerpts available ) at Google Books.〕 He passed up a music scholarship to UCLA in order to begin his professional career in 1963, at age seventeen, backing The Everly Brothers, and went on to become one of the most sought-after recording session drummers in Los Angeles. The protégé of studio drummer Hal Blaine, Gordon performed on many notable recordings in the 1960s, including ''Pet Sounds'' by The Beach Boys (1966), ''Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers'' by Gene Clark (1967), ''The Notorious Byrd Brothers'' by The Byrds (1968) and the hit "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams (1968). At the height of his career Gordon was reportedly so busy as a studio musician that he flew back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas every day to do two or three recording sessions, and then return in time to play the evening show at Caesars Palace. In 1969 and 1970, Gordon toured as part of the backing band for the group Delaney & Bonnie, which at the time included Eric Clapton. Clapton subsequently took over the group's rhythm section — Gordon, bassist Carl Radle and keyboardist-singer-songwriter Bobby Whitlock. They formed a new band that was later called Derek and the Dominos. The band's first studio work was as the house band for George Harrison's first solo album, the three-disc set ''All Things Must Pass''. Gordon then played on Derek and the Dominos' 1970 double album, ''Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs'', contributing, in addition to his drumming, the elegiac piano coda for the title track, "Layla." In later years, Whitlock claimed that the coda was not written by Gordon: "Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend Rita Coolidge. I know because in the D&B days I lived in John Garfield's old house in the Hollywood Hills and there was a guest house with an upright piano in it. Rita and Jim were up there in the guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called 'Time.'... Her sister Priscilla wound up recording it with Booker T. Jones.... Jim took the melody from Rita's song and didn't give her credit for writing it. Her boyfriend ripped her off."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-news/303-layla%E2%80%99s-40th-where%E2%80%99s-eric-interview-bobby-whitlock )〕 Graham Nash (who also dated Coolidge) substantiated Whitlock's claim in his memoir.〔"Wild Tales" - Crown Publishing Group〕 "Time" was not released by Priscilla Coolidge and Booker T. until their 1973 album ''Chronicles''. He also played with the band on subsequent U.S. and UK tours. The group split in spring 1971 before they finished recording their second album. In 1970, Gordon was part of Joe Cocker's ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'' tour and played on Dave Mason's album ''Alone Together''. In 1971, he toured with Traffic and appeared on two of their albums, including ''The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys''. That same year he played on Harry Nilsson's ''Nilsson Schmilsson'' album, contributing the drum solo to the track "Jump into the Fire". In 1972, Gordon was part of Frank Zappa's 20-piece "Grand Wazoo" big band tour, and the subsequent 10-piece "Petit Wazoo" band. Perhaps his best-known recording with Zappa is the title track of the 1974 album ''Apostrophe (')'', a jam with Zappa and Tony Duran on guitar and Jack Bruce on bass guitar, for which both Bruce and Gordon received a writing credit (Zappa, when introducing Gordon onstage, frequently referred to him as "Skippy" due to his youthful appearance). Also in 1974, Gordon played on the majority of tracks on Steely Dan's album ''Pretzel Logic'', including the single "Rikki Don't Lose That Number". He again worked with Chris Hillman of the Byrds as the drummer in the Souther–Hillman–Furay Band from 1973 to 1975. He also played drums on three tracks on Alice Cooper's 1976 album, ''Alice Cooper Goes to Hell''. Gordon was the drummer on the Incredible Bongo Band's ''Bongo Rock'' album, released in 1972, and his drum break on the LP's version of "Apache" has been frequently sampled by rap music artists. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim Gordon (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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