FOUR ON THE FLOOR
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Francisco Mela Speaks

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Mela is a drummer I've greatly admired, in particular his work with Joe Lovano, Kenny Barron, Melissa Aldana, his own ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Mr. Higgins

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I posted a link to the URL containing this concert in its entirety a few weeks back….but here's a nice excerpt via the youtube.com featu...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

Time Warp

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Some "vintage" Canadian Jazz today via Toronto's Barry Elmes: This band was quite influential to me during my first intr...
Monday, April 11, 2016

John Ramsay

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Thanks to Christian DeJongh who shared his lessons with Berklee drum professor John Ramsay via the YouTube.com: I was first expose...
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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Mark's Blues

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This little ditty is a simple and catchy snare drum cadence that I learned and played while marching with the Pride of Lions ...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Bill Charlap Trio

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Some outstanding concert footage today of Kenny Washington with the Bill Charlap trio: Thanks to Zion Afuang who passed along this one v...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Jorge Rossy on Vibes

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A pleasant surprise today (for me anyways...), here's drummer/pianist Jorge Rossy leading his own group, featuring Al ...
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Monday, March 28, 2016

The Monday Morning Paradiddle

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I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. Here's the latest offerings in Jazz Drumming that the Easter Bunny brought for u...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Lighthouse

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I posted these on my blog a long time ago but have recently been revisiting this band and amazing music. Today's post goes out to Sean C...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Nussbaum

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I really enjoyed this very musical drums and keyboard duet featuring long-time colleagues Adam Nussbaum and Richie Beirach: Adam is a ...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Rick Considine on Brushes

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I'm off to Brandon, MB to adjudicate at the Brandon Jazz Festival for most of this week, so here's some great brush lessons from Ric...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Washington vs. Farnsworth

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I'm just going to leave these here…
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock Pen an Open Letter to the Next Generation of Artists

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As always, when the Masters speak … .we listen: "To the Next Generation of Artists, We find ourselves in turbulent and ...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Trilok Gurtu 2.0

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Due to the overwhelming response of my last post featuring Trilok Gurtu, here's a few more that caught my eye (and ears…) - Trilok Gur...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Trilok Gurtu Thursday

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Trilok Gurtu is a very unique percussionist/drummer who's approach almost defies category. I've always been impressed with his creat...
Monday, February 29, 2016

The Monday Morning Paradiddle

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Welcome back. Hope all is well in your respective parts of the Jazz drumming realm. Thanks to our hardworking Four on the Fl...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

The Money Jungle Revisited

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Dig this concert length, contemporary re-imagining of Ellington/Mingus/Roach's "Money Jungle" as interpreted by Terri Lyne C...
Monday, February 22, 2016

What Do Artists Do All Day?: Evelyn Glennie

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From the BBC series "What Do Artists Do All Day?", here's a wonderful feature on percussionist Evelyn Glennie: Incidenta...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Doctoral Studies: Melodic Jazz Drumming

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A little over a year ago I successfully defended by doctoral thesis "Melodic Jazz Drumming" at the University of Toronto. This p...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Tain Revisited

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I originally posted this series of interviews with Jeff "Tain" Watts back in 2010 and they are still up on youtube.com so I rece...
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