By John Ephland | From the Spring 2008 issue of Traps
You can’t start much younger. Drummer Ronald Bruner Jr. can honestly state that his life with sticks (... Read More
BY DAN THRESS | FROM THE MAY-JUNE 2001 ISSUE OF DRUM!
Drummers around the world acknowledge the African origin of their instrument. Some of the greatest like El... Read More
Do you like jazz? If so, there’s a good chance you like bebop, and for that you should thank drummer Stan Levey. And it's his birthday, so let's celebrate him a... Read More
From the “coolest things we saw on the internet this week” file, check out Grammy winner Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science give a stirring, hip-hop–infus... Read More
Way before there was a competition with the same name, a jazz drummer was going around calling himself the “World’s Fastest Drummer”—and who could argue with Ch... Read More
STORY AND PHOTOS BY NICOLAS GRIZZLE
The 2019 Monterey Jazz Festival has a tough task of catering to an audience of seasoned jazzheads while keeping an eye on t... Read More
On this day in 1946, Greg Errico, drummer for the psychedelic soul and funk band Sly & The Family Stone, was born in San Francisco, California.
In additi... Read More
BY STEWART JEAN
Traditionally, jazz and blues feels are based on a clear 8th-note triplet subdivision with the primary grooves being the traditional “spang-a-l... Read More
BY "TIGER" BILL MELIGARI
In the last lesson we applied 4-way coordination to the first eight exercises from the book Stick Control by George Lawrence Stone. Th... Read More
BY J. POET | FROM THE SUMMER 2019 ISSUE OF DRUM!
"My mother says I was tapping out perfect time to the music on the radio, even before I could talk,” says Alli... Read More