I came across a couple of great websites that feature the legendary and enigmatic Canadian jazz drummer, Claude Ranger. Claude was originall...

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like...

Well....its been waaaaay too long since my last post (!) but I've been on the road lately in the UK (still am for another week) but I wi...

photo courtesy of Tracy Kolenchuk And this one is of me playing with John Patitucci: And no, I don't play my ride cymbal like that, comp...

People often ask me where "swing" comes from... Well, I'm pretty sure that these guys had something to do with it ! Unfortunat...

Here's some albums that have been making the playlist around the house these days: Ed Thigpen "Out of the Storm" Ed Thigpen - ...

Here's an incredible drum solo from Tony Williams. There's not much footage of "early" Tony soloing (let alone on an exten...

I had no idea that this existed... Bob McLaren, Al McLean and jazz tenor players around the world are going to flip when they see this !!!

My good friend and music educator Nick Fanner asked me about which drum patterns I like to use when playing the Duke Ellington/Juan Tizol tu...

Last night took me to the Banff Centre for the Arts where I attended a concert featuring Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orch...

Toronto jazz pianist and Star Trek aficionado Gerry Shatford sent me this great link that has some footage of the jazz percussion ensemble M...

Hmmmm..... Don't forget that Wayne Shorter wrote a tune called "PING PONG" on this album: And if you feel the need to catch Ne...

"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be o...

During some research I conducted for one of my DMA Jazz pedagogy seminars last year at the University of Toronto, I came across a disturbing...

Up-and-coming New York jazz drummer and composer Tyshawn Sorey was recently interviewed in Modern Drummer magazine. Tyshawn is a musical for...

Charlie Parker - my all time favorite jazz artist - would have been 89 years old today. Happy Birthday Bird ! Here's an excellent articl...

This morning someone forwarded me this clip of the great Louis Hayes as featured with the Cannonball Adderly Quintet on the tune "Bohem...

Stumbled across this nice surprise: My heroes Max Roach, Milt Jackson and Toots Thielemans sitting in with Benny Golson, Art Farmer and the ...

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