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.

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.13.1.0127 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/intejcubastud.13.1.0127 Copy URL Despite his success or perhaps because of ...

This is FRESH AIR. A year from now, we'll be hearing a lot about the hundredth anniversary of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's first recording in February, 1917, which is usually cited as the first ...

Triangles and Circles, the new album from Dafnis Prieto, blends Afro-Cuban beats, blues feeling and spontaneous rhythmic variations. Critic Kevin Whitehead says that drums are at the album's heart.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — The Ohio Valley is set to discover its next drumming legend with a new contest hosted by the Center of Music and Art. Following the success of last winter's "Art of the Shred," ...

Steve Alcala started teaching high school music in the 1980s. Today, he supplies much needed sheet music to customers around ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. I usually have a hard time following competitive Super Smash Bros. matches, but honestly, they ...