When discussing the best classic rock song from every year of the 1960s, classics like "Paint It Black" and "The End" are ...

A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers, traces the Roots drummer’s journey from Philly prodigy to genre-shaping ...

Jack DeJohnette, the visionary drummer whose piano stylings became a force later in his career, died on October 26 in Kingston, N.Y.

Emerging from the Mamelodi township near Pretoria in the early 1960s, Malombo carved a unique path in South African music.

Recorded after he signed with Blue Note Records, 'Unity' marks jazz organist Larry Young's distinctive shift toward modal ...

Charlie Watts embodies this book’s thesis. It’s impossible to imagine the Rolling Stones without him, and he was just as crucial to their sound as Keith Richards’ guitar or Mick Jagger’s singing. In ...

The Giants of Jazz 2LP reissue unites Frank Sinatra’s classic mid-’60s collaborations with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, newly remastered for vinyl.

Fresh out of college, an aspiring director named Damien Chazelle moved to Hollywood to make it in the movie industry. He started out as a writer for hire, but was soon ready to create his own projects ...

John Marshall (born September 28, 1941, in Isleworth, Middlesex, England) is an English drummer renowned for his work in jazz, rock, and progressive music, and best known as a longtime member of the ...

Jazz drumming demands subtlety, dynamics, and expressiveness that many electronic drums simply can't deliver. From the whisper-quiet brush strokes that define ballads to the explosive dynamics of ...

We use the term “Renaissance man” very loosely these days, for anybody even slightly multi-talented. But Lesotho-born jazz drummer, novelist and development scholar Morabo Morojele was the genuine ...

Stories about Ginger Baker tend to revolve less around his work in jazz and rock music and more around the fact that he’s an utter maniac with a violent streak a mile wide, which is fair enough; the ...