A few more clips here today of Master Drummer Billy Hart with The Sax Summit from a European concert performance:

Alto Saxophonist Jeff McGregor is a very talented and dedicated young Jazz artist in the Calgary Jazz community. I've had the pleasure o...

Special thanks to Chad Anderson of cymbalholic.com fame who brought this documentary to my attention: James Black is important drummer from ...

Some killing piano trio footage today featuring Lewis Nash with Mulgrew Miller and Rufus Reid with the performancesw taken from Reid's e...

Take a deep breath and check out this guy's left hand ! Joe Ascione is a good friend and I had the opportunity to take a few lessons wit...

Brian Pace over at the Pace Report has got a number of nice interviews with some of my favorite Jazz artists. Here's a few that caught ...

A few fun clips today of drummer Steve Smith demonstrating some flashy old school snare drumming and brush techniques:

Gregory Hutchinson needs your help. Hutchinson, one of the pre-eminent jazz drummers of our time, is currently raising money to produce a ja...

A couple nice ones today of one of my favorite vibraphonists, none other than Canadian Jazz icon Don Thompson with some all too brief footag...

Now here's a great big band drummer that everyone should take note of. I was recently reminded of this from reading an article in the cu...

The Calgary Stampede is quickly wrapping up here in town. I lost track of how many cowboy hats I saw during the past ten days and aside from...

I listen to this:

A very rare and interesting insight into the drumming of Gene Krupa as the master himself explains some of his techniques and signature patt...

You'd think with a title like that you'd be expecting a winner-takes-all boxing match between two heavyweights but this is a meeting...

This is truly a great find, some footage of drummer Kenny Clarke leading a quartet on a European festival date in 1962: I could listen to th...

Some interesting and rare footage here today of Buddy Rich joking around with Hugh Hefner and a room full of Playboy bunnies: This particula...

Today's "Calgary Scene" interview features our very own local tenor titan Jim Brenan. I've known Jim since I moved to Calg...

A very helpful lesson today with Terri Lyne Carrington where she explores variations on a very interesting pattern:

Here's a little rudiment that I find useful and that I first learned back in my drumline days during the early 1990s when we would pract...

It amazes me what you can find on the internet sometimes....Here's a couple of rare gems. Drummer Philly Joe Jones from the early 1980s ...