Further to my last blog post, my good friend Tim Mah has once again offered yet another year-end list, this time fea...

My good friend Tim Mah has once again painstakingly and very generously put together his yearly list featuring his favo...

I've been enjoying these ones lately and would love to hear more of this trio incarnation (according to Discogs there are four volumes f...

When I was visiting New York City during the late 90s and early 2000s on a fairly frequent ba...

...we listen. These clips are all from a forthcoming documentary entitled Artists of Jazz. Check out this...

And...we're back. Well, it's been a minute since our last column but here's an assortment of interesting items f...

Thanks to Chad Anderson for sharing this series of interviews with many Jazz greats, brought to us by the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton C...

Erskine hi-hat lick A post shared by Four on the Floor (@fouronthefloorblog) on Nov 29, 2017 at 6:54pm PST A simple but hip...

Earl MacDonald is a wonderful Canadian Jazz pianist, composer and arranger, originally from Win...

Unfortunately I just heard that the great Ben Riley passed away this weekend at the age of 84. Not only was...

From the same series of interviews as the Philly Joe Jones one from earlier this week, now here's Max Roach! Thanks again to Rochest...

Alright. Just stop whatever you're doing and watch this. Right now. Thank you to Rochester's Mike Melito for finding this one!

Left Hand 3-2 Rumba Clave Exercise A post shared by Four on the Floor (@fouronthefloorblog) on Nov 10, 2017 at 2:08pm PST Th...

Thanks to the kind people over at Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have a wealth of concerts streaming, for our convenient perusal, via their YouT...

The Buddy Rich Warmup A post shared by Four on the Floor (@fouronthefloorblog) on Nov 3, 2017 at 6:56am PDT This was shown to m...

Trick or Treat... Happy Halloween everybody!

Denny's Combos Redux A post shared by Four on the Floor (@fouronthefloorblog) on Oct 26, 2017 at 9:30am PDT An oldie bu...

A rare, up close glimpse for you today of one of ECM's most definitive drummers, the great Jon Christensen:

A simple but sideways little exercise today that I've been messing with on the snare drum lately. This one consists of literally one s...

Ulysses Owens Jr.'s recent release "Falling Forward" is a wonderful vibraphone trio exploration, following the spirit of ot...