Hot Wax – March 2011
New and Notable releases for January 2011.
The biggest challenges students face have to do with developing efficient practice techniques and learning how to be open and responsive while performing. This article addresses those challenges
Being driven around the neighborhoods of the Crescent City, discussing jazz with one of the Marsalis clan for an hour or so – not a bad way to spend an afternoon, right? This past January, while at the JEN Conference, that’s the situation I was lucky enough to find myself in.
This is a topic I discuss often at Camp MMW and on my latest educational DVD, LIFE ON DRUMS (Vongole [...]
With a tip of the hat to Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It” (“Birds do it, bees do it”, etc.), Bird [...]
The Evolution of Jazz Drumming from Hudson Hudson Music’s The Evolution of Jazz Drumming by Danny Gottlieb is an educational [...]
Dr. Larry Ridley, AAJC Executive Director Bassist Extraordinaire: Focus on Reverend Dr. Ronald Myers, www.juneteenthjazz.com Minister, physician and jazz musician, [...]
Turkish Embassy partners with JALC for Ertegün Jazz Series In late Janary, the Embassy of Turkey was joined by representatives [...]