Chad Wackerman is a musician and composer who began his professional career in 1978 with the Bill Watrous band. His drumming combines the power of rock with the sensitivity and finesse of jazz. Wackerman has collaborated for seven year with Frank Zappa, with whom he toured the USA and Europe and recorded 26 albums. He, in addition to his solo career, has also recorded and toured with Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, Andy Summers, Men At Work, Ed Mann, Albert Lee, Colin Hay, Dweezil Zappa and Tom Grant, James Taylor, John Patitucci , Joe Sample, Banned From Utopia and The World Drummers Ensemble (Bill Bruford, Luis Conte, Dou Dou Ndiaye Rose and Chad Wackerman) and Terry Bozzio.