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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

I'm just going to leave these here…

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...