Thanks to my European correspondent David Grebil who posted this one via youtube.com, here's the great Max Roach...

Somebody recently asked me about developing roll technique and vocabulary around the drums. Mr. Payne certainly had ...

It's Friday folks...and here's some rare footage of the Max Roach Quintet featuring Booker Little on trumpet...

Today's post features a great Canadian drummer from Quebec, the creative Michel Lambert. Here's Michel letting it...

Here's a fun one to get our Monday off to a good start, the hard-swinging Greg Hutchinson demonstrating a few differen...

To finish off "Brian Blade Week" over here at Four on the Floor, here's some clandestine home footage of Bla...

Since this is now my self-proclaimed "Brian Blade Week" here at Four on the Floor, I thought I would feature tod...

A few people have inquired as to what I've been up to lately and where I can be heard in the next couple of months. So h...

I was going to post a drum lesson today that I've been working on but it's been a really busy week between nightly ...

Thanks to Chad Anderson who sent me this full-length concert featuring Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, George Coleman an...

Hope you all had a nice weekend. Was there a football game going on something? Sorry, I'm not into four-down football....

I've posted some clips of these two before but I dig this music so much, here's some more of a great duet featurin...

Just a quick one today with a nice view of Jimmy Cobb in action:

Thank you to everybody who came out to our big band show last Friday evening at Calgary's National Music Centre with the ...

When the Master speaks, we listen! Here's some inspiring words to muse over the weekend, from the great Roy Haynes as i...

The Calgary Creative Arts Ensemble strikes again! My big band that I co-lead with saxophonist Mark DeJong hits the ...

On Sunday evening I heard the "Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour" at the Epcor Centre in Calgary. The band featured an ...

I've posted some segments from this before, but here and in it's entirety (!), is an excellent drum master class fea...

I've always admired percussionist Trilok Gurtu's sense of the term "World Music" and his blending of In...

Just a nice one today of my vibraphone hero, the great Bobby Hutcherson with Joey DeFrancesco on the B3 Hammond Organ: ...