Sorry folks for the radio silence lately. Things have just been too busy in the past week for much blogging what with p...

Thank you to my Winnipeg correspondents Jeff King and Aaron Sabasch who hipped to these great ones of drummer Ulysse...

Well, I'm a little late today but its been a crazy day and this is the first chance I've had to sit at my computer an...

Thanks to Edmonton's Efa Etoroma Jr. who posted this one via the Facebook. Here's one...

A couple of weekends ago while I was performing with the Tom Van Seters Quintet up at the Yardbird Suite in Edmonton, Alberta (by...

Happy Birthday to one of my biggest drumming heroes, Art Blakey! Bu was born on October 11, 1919 and would have ...

I usually post these things on Monday mornings but seeing as yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving today is in fact the de fac...

A good friend of mine recently purchased a couple of very special Billy Gladstone snare drums and let me tell you, they ...

I enjoyed this one...here's powerhouse Ralph Peterson Jr. demonstrating the style and patterns of his own drum mentor, the great Art Bla...

Here's an exercise/warm-up that I've been messing around with lately. Basically it's just a bar of alternating accent...

This post is a day late (!) but I just returned from a whirlwind trip to Vancouver and Victoria and catching up here. - I h...

I was hanging out with Vancouver flutist Jeremy Price last spring and he had me listen to a great Oscar Peterson LP ...

What a find! Here's one of my personnel favorites, the great Kenny Clarke with Johnny Griffin circa. 1970: N...

Some truth and wisdom from someone who knows it!

Sorry for the late post but it's been a busy teaching/gigging day today! Here's the great Jeff Hamilton from a masterclass he g...

Thanks to our French FOTR correspondent David Grebil, here's the great New Orleans Jazz drummer Herlin Riley taking some...

Here's some concert footage of my favorite, the great Max Roach, with his quartet from Berlin circa. 1984  featuring Cecil...

This is one is for my friend (and a very fine drummer himself) Jeff Cosgrove. Here's two masters engaged in a musical dialogue, Lee K...