Carl Haakon Waadeland (born 8 November 1952) is a Norwegian musicologist and jazz drummer, known from several bands and releases such as with Dadafon, Dum Dum Boys, Åge & Sambandet, Halvdan Sivertsen, Warne Marsh, Kenny Wheeler, Annbjørg Lien, Henning Sommerro, Bjørn Alterhaug, John Pål Inderberg, Knutsen & Ludvigsen, Mikis Theodorakis and Arja Saijonmaa.

He was one of the driving forces behind the jazz program at NTNU which he also directed.

[1] Waadeland holds a master's degree in mathematics and PhD in music theory from the NTNU,[2] where he concentrates on rhythm, swing, music performance (performologi), rhythm and movement, as a professor of Music.

[1] In his PhD thesis he developed simulation models of rhythm abnormalities (2000).

He otherwise has contributed a number of releases by Mid-Norwegian artists[3] Knutsen & Ludvigsen, Gary Holton & Casino Steel (1982), Hans Rotmo, Terje Tysland, Halvdan Sivertsen, Hilde Heltberg, Åge Aleksandersen, Øystein Dolmen, Dum Dum Boys and Henning Sommerro.