jazz gigs in the city known as the cradle of jazz. Herlin Riley is presiding. The 66-year-old drummer sits at his drums like a prince before his court. The tavern is packed because when Riley ...

Among rival stickmen, the admiration extends from old guardists such as Gene Krupa (“Buddy is the Maury Wills of the drums”) to such ... greatest living natural jazz drummer,” says the ...

(BLOOM) — At 85 years old, David Hirsch isn’t ... Hirsch sets up his drum kit in Bernard’s Sports Bar and leads a lively Jazz Jam session. Residents gather to listen, tap their feet or ...

I am a guy who works with what I have,” — Steve Hedig, 91-year-old jazz drummer He answered the ... Hideg set up his snare drum in the company of pianist Cengiz Yaltkaya, alto saxophonist ...

Al Foster, full name Aloysius Tyrone Foster, was born in Virginia in 1943 and grew up in Harlem. Foster was inspired to get ...

For many jazz aficionados, it is the old school that still rings true ... collaborating with Mumbai-based Dee Wood (bass) and Benny Soans (drums). Banaszak and Soans have performed together ...

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

The city this week will place all six of the lifelike sculptures, titled “My Sixteen-Year-Old Jazz Dreams,” by the ... musicians Gene Krupa on drums, Jack Teagarden on trombone, Louis ...