When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A mainstay of jazz, brushes afford the drummer a softer-sounding alternative to sticks that's ...

Together these three reissues demonstrate that although each of Blakey's bands maintained a similar sound they also possessed their own individual identities. Drum Suite is a unique entry in the ...

Drum specialist Beta Monkey Music released a new collection of drum tracks on Thursday, targeted to Jazz musicians. Jazz Essentials II features over 2GB of live jazz drum tracks. These are not loops, ...

"Mulberry-eyed girls in black stockings, Smelling vaguely of mint jelly and last night's bongo drummer... fling their arrow legs / To the heavens / Losing their doubts in the beat" of San Francisco ...

Randall Kline was sitting alone in the glowing concert hall at the new SFJazz Center, chin in hand, listening to the Red Hot Skillet Lickers blaze through a Count Basie blues. Tech guys in orange and ...

The Mutual Musicians Foundation at 1823 Highland, home of the original Colored Musicians Local 627, is one of two National Historic Landmarks in Kansas City (the other is the Liberty Memorial). It was ...