Now here's a real gem ! Some rare footage of the Elvin Jones trio in Japan from the late 1960s !!! Dig the red jacket, bow tie...

This one's for my friend, Regina bassist and visionary Carlo Petrovitch. Today's post features Latin Jazz drummer Ignacio Berroa wit...

Long days on the road catching up with you, Joe ? (just kidding...) Some nice footage here of drummer Joe Farnsworth from a recent gig of hi...

And....we're back ! Thanks to some clever planning and foresight on my part I was able to preprogram my blog to post while I was touring...

Some interesting commentary here on the democratic nature of Jazz music and it's relationship to the American ideal:

I first met drummer Johnathan Blake in Toronto a few years ago. I was studying composition with saxophonist Tim Ries at the time at the Univ...

MAX ROACH !!! Can you tell that he's my favorite ?

Here's a clip of vibraphonist Terry Gibbs leading a great big band featuring Jeff Hamilton on drums performing Tiny Kahn's compositi...

Just a brief post today featuring an all-star band playing Bobby Hutcherson's classic composition "Little B's Poem":

Some extraordinary footage here of saxophonist Charles Lloyd with guitarist John Abercrombie, Larry Grenadier on bass and my hero Billy Higg...

A brief interview and some fantastic footage of Ralph Peterson Jr. playing up close: It's playing like this that inspires me to add more...

Killing playing here from drummer Nasheet Waits:

Nice trio footage of one of my favorite contemporary Jazz drummers, Lewis Nash shown here playing with pianist Tamir Hendelman:

A interesting couple of clips here of Peter Erskine demonstrating some concepts with the help of some Roland electronic drums: I can't s...

No bus tapes or crude anti-Rich jokes here ! Just a clip of drummer Dick Cully breaking down and explaining a classic Buddy Rich drum patter...

Impressive footage here of drummer Willie Jones III playing a brilliant solo (sans a high tom!) with guitarist Peter Bernstein: I first hear...

Some inspiring footage of drummer Billy Hart in a masterclass with students at Western Michigan University:

Today's lesson focuses on a pattern that drummer Philly Joe Jones commonly used and how my interpretation of his sticking pattern has ev...

Today's post features a very insightful video with percussionist Evelyn Glennie speaking about the importance of learning how to listen ...

Indeed - Roy Haynes is the coolest drummer alive ! And here in a duet with pianist Chick Corea: