Don Ellis traveled to India to perform two concerts in Bombay (now Mumbai), India in Janurary of 1978 with a small group consisting of Emilie Diehl, vocals; Randy Kerber, keyboards; Leon Gaer, bass; and David on drums. The recent unearthing of a tape of those concerts, combined with David's production, restoration, editing and mastering work, along with the efforts of Ellis historian Ken Orton and Gary Gilles of Sleepy Night Records now allows those performances to finally be shared.
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"A very special album for me by former Mahavishnu pianist, Stu Goldberg. Basically a piano trio outing featuring Stu, the late Jim Lacefield on bass, and myself; with added contributions by Stu's brother, Ken, on reeds, ex-Don Ellis percussionist, Lee Pastora and a string quartet. As much as I played with Jim over the years, this was the only complete jazz record we ever made together. Sadly, Jim was taken from us way too soon. As a compatriot in jazz and a dear friend, I miss him constantly."
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"Possibly the most exciting recording project I've ever been involved with..." Spoken word artist, Chuck Britt and trombomist/composer, Micahel Vlatkovich and David (playing, engineering and producing) team up for this long awaited third project of Transvalue. "Not since Don Ellis have I recorded something that pushes this many boundaries."
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"Longtime Burt Bacharach vocalist and good friend, John Pagano invited me to play a couple of tracks on his latest release. Recorded at Capitol Records Studio with a full string section, Burt and the bulk of his band all playing behind John singing live. Also got to catch up with my old friend, Tom Rainer, who was there to record the wonderful arrangement he had written (just John, strings and piano) of the CD's title song that they recorded later that afternoon. Very nice."
For more about John, visit his website click here.

David's first and only studio recording with the Don Ellis Orchestra. Finally out on CD."Didn't think we would ever see this one reissued."

The latest release of Bruce and the band, this time recorded by Billy Hulting and features David playing with Ken Wild (bass), Alan Steinberger (keys), Brian Kilgore (perc) and some of LA's finest wind players.

Finally available on CD!
Don Ellis' final album recorded during the band's 1977 European tour.

Bruce and the band with David playing drums, mixing and co-producing.

...with Sheryl Crow, All Saints, Elvis Costello, Chrissie Hynde, Mike Myers, Wynonna, Luther Vandross, David Sanborn, George Duke, & Dionne Warwick.

"One concert... Burt, the band and twelve guest artists...one take.
No re-takes, no overdubs.
What?... Was I stressed?... Nah!..."

Now on dvd as well.

The band's first CD release. Besides playing drums, David recorded and mixed four tunes.

A smaller group project from Bruce with David contributing some drumming, programming, recording and mixing.

I did some drum programming for Burt Bacharach on this.

David's second album with one of Germany's most famous fusion ensembles.

David plays on one cut, "Planet Earth Calling"; an up-tempo fusion track left over from the "Encore" album sessions.

"A wonderful week in San Francisco spent recording every evening at Different Fur Studio with just Brian, Don Ellis bassist Dave MacDaniel, guitarist George Doering and myself."

"Yes, It's Mr. Piano himself! Actually Roger was one of the nicest men I ever worked for and was extremely kind to the very green 18 year old drummer recording his first major label album. The cool little known factoid on this record is that the background orchestra is actually the Don Ellis Band uncredited. Don's band was the house band at Magic Mountain (how strange is that??) that summer, when this was recorded there."