Carl Allen was nice enough to take time out of his busy schedule and answer a few questions about his new album Tippin' , released on th...

Some more brief but awesome footage of Claude Ranger on drums, this time taking a brush solo with vibraphonist Peter Appleyard, Hank Jones o...

I was shopping for used records the other day and took home a few great LPs by the late Ralph Peterson Jr. that he recorded for Blue Note ba...

Canadian soprano saxophonist Jane Bunnett shared a brief video of Claude Ranger on her Facebook page last month (captured during the studio ...

And...we're back.  Thanks for taking some out of your day to read what I have to share. Here is the January 2025 edition of the Monday M...

Happy New Year everyone and I hope you all enjoyed your holiday break. Now we are back to work, back to school and it's time to get focu...

And here it is! Once again, Four on the Floor correspondent Tim Mah offers his generous and extensive annual year-end curated list of music ...

Thanks to Jake Reed for sharing this wonderful interview with Peter Erskine. Many great lessons in life and music to be found here. Just o...

A wonderful new jazz drumming book showed up in my inbox the other day. Argentinian jazz drummer Pedro Ahets has compiled an impressive coll...

Thanks to frequent Four on the Floor contributor and CJSW Jazz Today radio program host Tim Mah for sharing this great interview with Herli...

Thanks to Paul Wells and Jess Birch of the Good Hands Drum Shop in New York City for sharing this wonderful piece featuring Mel Lewis' c...

A recent Facebook exchange with drummers Brooke Sofferman and Eric McKinley Thompson regarding the recent release of certain Miles Davis rec...

A few days late here with this blog post as I've been preoccupied lately, finishing up an impending grant application due imminently (fu...