As the old saying goes, "You have to go back before you can go forward." And that means you should learn the tradition of the instrument to gain greater knowledge and bring more depth to your playing.

Babatunde Lea's latest album is seeing greater success than any other in his four decades of playing jazz. By last week, "Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost" had spent seven weeks among the College ...

Anyone who enjoyed the recent Wayne Shorter documentary Zero Gravity might also dig this—a more conventionally structured but equally fascinating look at the life of Max Roach. Filmmaker and ...

No cover, no minimum. Call (212) 219-1019 or visit antiquegaragesoho.com. No wonder there's such sparkling musicality to Tobias Gebb's approach to the jazz drum set: Before taking up his instrument at ...

Did you know the Ravens were getting an accomplished musician when they signed cornerback/special teams player Justin Bethel? Bethel plays drums in a jazz band named "House of Bethel". It's a family ...

Bengaluru: Drum rolls kept tempo with the heartbeats and it was not the regular modern drum kits but a set of Afro-Cuban percussion instruments that had the listeners’ hearts pounding to a crescendo.

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: “Ah, no! My name is ...