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Chad Wackerman
Chad Wackerman is credited on 769 releases across 153 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1980–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
769
Pressings credited
153
Albums
5
Decades active
233
In collections
Biography
Chad Wackerman (born March 25, 1960) is an American jazz, jazz fusion and rock drummer, who has played with Frank Zappa and Allan Holdsworth. He has worked as a band member, session musician, sideman, and bandleader. He is the older brother of drummers John Wackerman and Brooks Wackerman, and the father of singer and songwriter Sophia James.
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Credited work
769 releases · 153 albums · active 1980–2026
- Performance · 2,863
- Other credits · 50
- Production · 14
- Engineering · 1
Studios: UMRK · The Palladium, NYC · Hammersmith Odeon · UMRK Mobile
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2015
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
1982
Them Or Us
1984
Flex-Able
1984
Jazz From Hell
1986
4½
2016
The Man From Utopia
1983
Sleep Dirt
1979
Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
1968
Guitar
1988
Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show
2021
Halloween 81
2020
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
1991
Make A Jazz Noise Here
1991
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3
1989
Broadway The Hard Way
1988
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore (Sampler)
1988
One Voice
1987
Does Humor Belong In Music?
1986
Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention
1985
Thing-Fish
1984
Flex-Able Leftovers
1984
Road Games
1983
Cheap Thrills
1998
Frequent collaborators
- Frank Zappa
- Zappa
- Allan Holdsworth
- Dweezil Zappa
- Ed Mann
- Bill Watrous
- Steven Wilson
- It Bites FD
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