Among other things, the book chronicles the impact of the drum kit on a large swath of popular music. Brennan captures the essence of significant styles of jazz, pop and rock without playing favorites ...

Is a change in jazz drumming on the horizon? Is the standard jazz drum kit beginning to lose its effectiveness? Does the basic combination of bass and snare drums, tom-toms and cymbals offer too ...

Here’s how it works. With today’s multisampled drum kits capable of exquisite levels of detail, authentic jazz drums are genuinely achievable within the confines of the software-based studio. And ...

Han Bennink hears sonic possibilities in many objects beyond the typical drum set. The Dutch drum maestro, one of the leaders in European free jazz and free improvisation, has performed using a ...

A fascinating recent development enabling musicians to improvise live music with AI-generated sound could be the biggest ...

Want to play hair metal with big boomy toms and a reverb-laden snare drum? There’s a preset for that. Or maybe you want to play a small jazz kit with meticulously tuned toms and super-dry cymbals.

At 18 months, Bernard Rich was car ried onstage by the seat of his pants to play drums in his parents’ vaudeville ... Perched on a pyramid of risers, Rich set a blistering pace, insistently ...

The jazz drummer and composer joins forces with vocalist Christie Dashiell to recast Max Roach’s influential 1960 suite, ...