Cuban-born drummer Dafnis Prieto is a force. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to study with him for two weeks during the winter of 20...

As per usual, here's a collection of interesting things for you to check out today: - The Banff Centre has a long-standing tradition of ...

Here's a nice one to finish the week off, a couple of fine sets featuring Brian Blade and his Fellowship band from a recent show at Yosh...

Peter Erskine always has nice taste in drums and cymbals. Here he is today playing and demonstrating his beautiful DW Jazz series drums: ...

Not a drum post today but this one is for all my saxophone playing friends out there...well, and everybody, really! There was also a bootleg...

Dig this: from the recent 2012 NEA Jazz Master's awards concert, here's some nice up close, behind the scenes footage of the Master ...

I was very excited to get a copy of Jeff Cosgrove's latest CD "Motian Sickness - This Music of Paul Motian: For the Love of Sarah...

This is just a short one, shot on somebody's iPhone (probably!), but I was fascinated by John's explanation of how he uses different...

Another bad ass drum solo from Ralph Peterson Jr. today: Ralph has also got an excellent new instructional DVD out and, after now owning and...

Another post today for my friends of the bass clef persuasion, here's a very moving piece and a tribute to bassist Dennis Irwin, a marve...

"Oh you better watch out, Mr. A.T. knows who's been naughty and nice..." Here's another great one of Art Taylor teaming up...

Good morning everybody and happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Let's all take a moment to reflect on the meaning of King's important m...

The Blue Note record label is undeniably one of the greatest Jazz record labels of all time. Here's a very informative documentary on th...

Today's post features a meeting of drummers of epic proportions! This French concert, featured in its entirety, features the great Art B...

Congratulations Jack! And here's Jack and Roy Haynes engaging in a friendly "tap off" following the NEA Jazz Master's lunc...

Saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Coffin is one my favorite contemporary musicians these days. I really admire his sense of creativ...

Today the two Steve's show us how it's done (unfortunately the footage ends before Stephen Harper joins in to take the stage...) Spe...

Well...back to the drawing board!

I've posted a portion of this concert featuring Thelonious Monk and his quartet from a date in Belgium before, but the entire concert ha...

Footage of Kenny Clarke is fairly rare so I was pretty excited to see this one pop up recently. Here's Kenneth Spearman Clarke, commonly...