My monthly jazz drumming workshop series continues on Saturday, December 17th. These regular workshops and group sessions are occurring mont...

Big thanks to Bret Primack aka The Jazz Video Guy for sharing this inspiring footage of the great Billy Higgins with Cedar Walton's qua...

Papa Jo Jones: The Man Who Played Like the Wind A pair of pieces featuring the great Jo Jones today. First up, a brilliantly epic version of...

"The guys get shirts and that's just the way it is..."  - Paul Anka The classic black Four on the Floor t-shirts are now back...

I am working towards a very cool collaborative drumming and contemporary dance project these days. So choreographer Catherine Hayward and ...

Check out my recent interview with the great Billy Drummond, who recently released his latest album Valse Sinistre  featuring his band Freed...

My monthly jazz drumming workshop series continues on Sunday, November 20th. These regular workshops and group sessions will address such to...

  And...we're back and welcome to a special October 2022  Halloween edition of the Monday Morning Paradiddle.  And what better way to c...

A quadruple dose of great Tony Williams footage today! First off, Thomas Wendt and the Drum Candy Podcast (brought to us by Drum Factory Dir...

Some great drumming today from Kyle Poole and Joe Farnsworth, featured in tandem on Cedar Walton's Firm Roots , from arguably one of the...

(photo by Michael Dvorak) Well yesterday was Edward Blackwell's birthday and today is Art Blakey and Billy Higgins' birthdays! So I ...

And...we're back. Sorry for the radio silence as I've been on the road lately, working in Toronto with Canada's premier jazz dan...

  I'm starting up a monthly in-person drum workshop series on the topic of all things related to jazz drumming. These group sessions wil...

I'm about to take a short break from blogging these days and heading out on the road shortly with Calgary's Decidedly Jazz Dancework...

I was on the road for most of the month of August driving across northern Saskatchewan but made a point of spending daily time on my drum pa...

Some burning footage of the great jazz drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes, in action here with Freddie Hubbard, Don Braden and Ben...

One of the beauties of social media is the rare pieces of jazz history that occasionally pop up. Here's a scan of a 1966 Downbeat articl...

And...we're back! I hope you all had a nice summer wherever you are. Regular blogging has now resumed here at Four on the Floor now that...

And...we're back.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope your summer is going well. Things have been on the go and moving along in a few dir...