I am a huge Barry White fan. I am a fan mostly because of the Saturday mornings where my mother would blast her music while she cleaned the house. My mother would wake me up with her Kirby vacuum cleaner which would bump up against my door as she cleaned the hallway leading to my…
Read moreVaneese Thomas – Take Me To The River – 2015 Hudson River Park’s Blues BBQ – NYC
I played with this great band a few weeks ago. It was a fun blues festival down in TriBeCa in Manhattan. The band was great, Vaneese was great, the food was great and the hang afterward was cool too. I ran into so many people I’ve played with over the years in Broadway pits in…
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Dave Grohl, Chad Smith and more on Ringo’s drumming
The Drummer Who Invented Jazz’s Basic Beat
Kenny Clarke performs at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968. He spent the second half of his career in Europe. JazzSign/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Corbis It doesn’t take an expert to identify this sound as a jazz rhythm: Musicians call it “spang-a-lang,” for obvious phonetic reasons, and it’s so synonymous with jazz, it no longer occurs…
Read more30 Years of Stewart Copeland Kicking ASS!!
Stewart Copeland Easily in the top 20 most innovative drummers of all time (at least for me). Man is he one hard hitting, creative, interesting and influential musician.
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