Drummer · Composer · Educator
Steve
Rucker
From Wembley Stadium with the Bee Gees to the practice rooms at Frost, Steve Rucker has spent a lifetime behind the kit — and he’s still writing new material today.
5M+
copies sold — One Night Only, the Bee Gees live album
56,000
at Wembley Stadium, September 1998
1979
directing Drumset Studies at Frost, ever since
20+
DownBeat awards for his Funk/Fusion Ensemble
Album · 2026 · 7 tracks
Routes and Roots
Seven pieces named for places — Key West, the Everglades, the rail line to Tarragona — ranging across Latin, Celtic jazz, and country.
- 01Rio Do Mundo
- 02Mallory Square
- 03River of Grass
- 04Under Emerald Skies
- 05Train to Tarragona
- 06Patterson Mountain
- 07Green Hill
Bee Gees · Michael Jackson · Gloria Estefan · Johnny Cash · Barry Gibb · Jaco Pastorius · Pat Metheny · Cliff Richard · Bo Diddley · Joe Sample · Ben Vereen · Paquito D’Rivera · Will Lee · Bob James · Woody Herman Big Band
Steve Rucker is still writing new material. Not “still” in the reluctant, one-record-a-decade sense — new tracks show up on his page every few weeks, sketches and full pieces alike, an artist treating the studio like a living notebook rather than a monument to what he already did.
Ask him what he’s proudest of, though, and it’s probably whatever he’s working on right now.Read the full story →