I'd like to thank Mike Clark via the Facebook for this one today: One regular reader of my blog recently wrote me, wo...

Monday's post featuring some recent footage of Steve Gadd performing at this year's edition of PASIC got me ...

Drummer Rodney Green is another of my favorite contemporary jazz drummers on the scene today. I was really impressed with h...

Things are really on the go for me these days but I'm still trying to blog as often as possible. I'm jus...

I've always been a sucker for drum battles or, as I like to call them, "Percussion Discussions". Some of my early...

Just as the title reads on this youtube.com video, here is Joey Baron playing a GIGANTIC drum solo with the Dave Douglas & Joe Lovano Q...

And....we're back. (and thanks to Mr. Patrick Boyle who provided that very eloquent interlude while I was wor...

Thanks to my good friend and partner-in-crime Professor Patrick Boyle, here is an insightful and generous guest blog post to ...

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...