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Thursday, November 27, 2014

A Different Way to Visualize Rhythm

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Whoa....I meant to post this on Monday (!) but got behind on some things and totally forgot about it. ANYWAYS, here's a bril...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

The Calgary Creative Arts Ensemble Presents: "Made in Calgary: New Works for Jazz Orchestra"

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Just a quick quick plug for an exciting concert of mine coming up here in Calgary, AB in an about a week: The Calgary Creative Arts ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

The Monday Morning Paraddidle

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And....we're back! Sorry for the brief hiatus. Things have been very busy of late. I just finished up a very artistica...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Carvin on Rudiments

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Some more great lessons today thank to the nice folks over at the Jazz@Lincoln Center's Jazz Academy youtube.com chann...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Oral History with Albert "Tootie" Heath

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There are many great lessons and other great Jazz related things over the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz Academy youtu...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Eddie Gladden with Dexter Gordon

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Thanks to Bill Steiger for passing along these wonderful and BURNING clips of the underrated Eddie Gladden from a 1979 Nort...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Bobby Sanabria LP Basics

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Thanks to the kind people over at LP Percussion, here's drummer/percussionist/educator extraordinare Bobby Sanabria de...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Guest Blog Post: Max Senitt

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Today's challenging guest blog post comes from Toronto-based drummer extraordinare Max Senitt. I used to hear him pl...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Drums & Bass with Ed Soph

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Here's an interesting recital featuring bassist Fred Hamilton with UNT drum professor Ed Soph in a creative and mus...
Monday, September 22, 2014

The Monday Morning Paradiddle

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Well today is officially the first day of Fall and I'm still trying to figure out where my Summer went....anyways, despi...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Erskine

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Thank you to my friends over at Cymbalholic.com for passing along these great lessons with Peter Erskine, explaining some i...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Billy Martin Talks Rhythm

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A few clips today of rhythm Master Billy Martin giving a group lesson, demonstrating a few of his rhythmic concepts: ...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Klook & Dizzy - Cannes 1958

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Okay...the footage that follows is absolutely brilliant. We as Jazz drummers are very lucky to have this in our midst to...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Adam Nussbaum & WeThree

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August (and summer!) is winding down quickly here. For some of us it's almost time to go back to school and whatnot...b...
Monday, August 18, 2014

John Patitucci with Brian Blade

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From John Patitucci's ArtistWorks Sessions, here's a pretty happening trio featuring John with Jon Cowherd on piano and Brian Blade ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Daniel Glass: History of the Drumset

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Looking for some great summertime viewing? Thanks to the kind people over at Vic Firth here's Daniel Glass and his inform...
Monday, August 4, 2014

The Monday Morning Paradiddle

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Well, summer is about half way over now and things keep on moving along. I'm happy to report that I've made some sig...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Up Close with Bill Stewart

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Today's "Up Close with..." features some great drumming with modern Master Bill Stewart: Thank you to...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Up Close with Matt Wilson

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Here's some great, up close action footage of my friend and mentor, Matt Wilson performing with the late, great Charlie ...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Digging Max

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When people ask me who my favourite drummer is (I have many!) the name Max Roach is usually the first to come out of my mouth. I came acr...
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