Santa Claus came early this year! I was trying to take an extended break from blogging to attend to some other "doctoral" activiti...

The YQR Creative Arts Association Presents: "A Jazzy Holiday Gathering" Featuring Jeff McLeod & The YQR Jazz All-Stars with: J...

Seasons greetings everybody! Well it's been busy around these parts these days with the holidays fast approaching and the usual flurry o...

I'm loving all these clandestine close-up drum videos that pop up on youtube.com from time to time. It's like sitting over your favo...

Thank YOU Matt !!!

Today's Calgary Scene column features Kodi Hutchinson, one of Calgary's busiest bass players. Kodi was one of the first Calgary musi...

Listening to Billy Higgins play the drums and learning to appreciate his masterful sense of accompaniment is a must for any serious student ...

Today's post features a Peter Erskine drum workshop thanks to the The Drum Brother. Peter is a great teacher and I always enjoy his teac...

Joe Farnsworth is one of my favorite contemporary Hard Bop Jazz drummers around these days. His hard-driving swing, timeless respect for the...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to travel to Toronto recently to catch Victor Lewis with Ryan Oliver's group (it was all over Facebook s...

More superb examples of brush playing brought to us today by the Master himself, Ed Thigpen: These musical selections are excerpts from Thig...

Thanks to kind people over at Vic Firth here's a fun segment that also features some up-close performance footage of Greg Hutchinson, a ...

I can't think of a better way to start off this week than with a virtual up-close, in-performance drum lesson with Matt Wilson, seen her...

It's been awhile since I've featured any Calgary musicians in my Calgary Scene column but I'm happy to be back at it today and f...

Thanks to Michele Moss from the Department of Dance at the University of Calgary who brought this incredible story to my attention: "C...

Several years ago while I was still living in Montreal, I had the opportunity to teach an older drum student who had lived in Boston during ...

Paul Motian 1931-2011

Some footage today of John Riley performing Sonny Rollins' "Tenor Madness" from a recent drum set improvisation clinic at the ...

-Thanks to all the staff, students and volunteers at the University of Saskatchewan where I spent the past week adjudicating and working wit...