An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The drum solo is that one showstopping moment during a concert that allows the drummer to shake the restrictive chains of timekeeper and showcase ...

Baby Dodds: 1. Spooky Drums No. 1 2. Drums in the Twenties 3. Shimmy Beat/Press Roll Demonstration 4. Careless Love Blues 5. Rudiments 6. Maryland 7. Spooky Drums No. 2 8. Tom Tom Workout The ...

Studio films with pure jazz scores are few and far between in this day and age. Unlike the ’60s when composers like Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin churned them out, most filmmakers gravitate toward ...

Dig into 13 tracks from this influential drummer and bandleader, chosen by writers and musicians including several former members of his band, the Jazz Messengers. Credit...Dante Zaballa Supported by ...

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 ...

Victor Coelho has received research funding from Boston University. In an era when rock drummers were larger-than-life showmen with big kits and egos to match, Charlie Watts remained the quiet man ...