caption website associated_acts years_active article_title name background birth_date instrument genre origin birth_name occupation
keith carlock http://www.keithcarlock.com/ steely , john mayer , leni stern , david johansen , dan donald fagen , diana ross , harry belafonte , chris , botti , james taylor , wayne krantz , toto , sting walter becker , larry carlton , the blues brothers band 1990s-present keith carlock
 keith carlock non_vocal_instrumentalist 1971 drums , percussion modern rock , jazz jazz , jazz fusion , rock , blues clinton , mississippi , u.s. keith carlock musician
keith carlock

keith carlock is an american jazz drummer originally from clinton , mississippi .
he currently resides in new york city with his wife and daughters .
he has recorded and/or toured with wayne krantz , sting , john mayer , steely dan , james taylor , donald fagen , walter becker , diana ross , faith hill , the blues brothers band , leni stern , david johansen and the harry smiths , richard bona , chris botti , harry belafonte , oz noy , clay aiken , rascal flatts , paula abdul , and grover washington , jr. .
carlock was the exclusive drummer for every track on steely dan 's `` everything must go '' -lrb- steely dan has used multiple drummers on each of the last several albums they 've released over the past three decades -rrb- .
while in the jazz studies program at the university of north texas , carlock studied with many teachers , including ed soph .
in october 2009 , he released an instructional dvd called `` the big picture : phrasing , improvisation , style , and technique '' .
in january 2014 , carlock replaced long-time toto drummer simon phillips .
he played on every track on the band 's new album `` toto xiv '' and played with them on the japanese tour in april-may 2014 .
carlock uses gretsch drums , zildjian cymbals , evans drumheads and vic firth sticks .
keith was voted # 1 pop drummer , # 1 fusion drummer , and # 1 best all-around drummer in modern drummer 's 2009 readers poll .
sting on carlock : `` keith worked with me on the sacred love tour .
it 's a big chair to fill in my band ; some of the greatest drummers in the world have sat there : stewart copeland , omar hakim , manu katché , vinnie colaiuta .
keith took his place as if born to the job .
an impeccable creative musician , powerful as well as sensitive , patient and understanding in the face of my often inarticulate and conflicting demands .
anyone who has passed through my band remains family , brother keith is no exception . ''
- sting donald fagen on carlock : `` keith 's attitude , his enthusiasm , and everything is just great .
when you 're cutting tracks like we do , the band will get to a certain point when things are working and everything coalesces , and everybody realizes they are now going to play a take .
to get there you need not just the drummer , but everybody to have refined their parts .
we had that with this band , thanks in large part to keith .
we would get to that point and converge on something , and he would give us a take we could really work with . ''
- donald fagen -lrb- steely dan -rrb- walter becker on carlock : '' ... we 're trying to re-create a kind of rhythmic feel that predates the drum machine era , where it 's really a feel generated by the players , something that has a swing and a lope to it and still has hypnotically steady time .
with keith , everything he tried to play worked in that way .
he also began with a good idea of where a tune was supposed to go , and he got better as we played it .
he actually made this whole thing possible ... his groove is just as good at the end of the day as it is at the beginning . ''
- walter becker -lrb- steely dan -rrb-
