It can never be said that the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz does anything halfway. Held annually at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, this year's competition and gala concert was ambitious and ...

It's a Wednesday night in the venerable Bayou Bar of the Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans – one of the best (and least publicized) jazz gigs in the city known as the cradle of jazz. Herlin Riley is ...

Welcome to the jazz drums studio at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Our curriculum focuses on preparing students to be well-versed rhythm section players and soloists. Our ...

A life-time dedication to Jazz drum soloing Mr. Fernando Carpio was already well known during the 60s and 70s in Hong Kong for his Brilliant jazz drumming A true musician artist back in the 60’s ...

The drummer helped pioneer bebop in the 1940s and delivered a message of resistance and liberation from the 1960s on. Listen to 13 selections from musicians, writers and critics. By Marcus J. Moore ...

Today at lunch, you can march to a different tune from the rhythmic beats of one of the world’s oldest musical instruments, the drum. Jazz at Wolfson presents drummer Danny Gottlieb, who has come to a ...

At 18 months, Bernard Rich was car ried onstage by the seat of his pants to play drums in his parents’ vaudeville act. At six, sporting a sailor suit and Lord Fauntleroy curls, he played the Tivoli ...

Brixton Harper, a 16-year-old drummer, thrives by blending deathcore with classical jazz, challenging norms and enriching his ...

With a long career playing among jazz and R&B greats, he remains one of the most in-demand drummers in New Orleans. Herlin Riley: master of drums in the cradle of jazz It's a Wednesday night in the ...