Let's talk about the book with the funny looking Ludwig drums with the Silver Dot heads on the cover— and all the ugly Paiste ColorSound...

“You call it swing, but what I’m saying is it’s a rhythmic sophistication that causes a euphoric reaction, and on a folk level that reaction...

I'm hard at work on a new book right now, and the only way I'll finish it is if I write the whole thing at once, so here is an absol...

Here's a loop that be real useful to a lot of people, sampled from Soulful Brothers, from Kenny Burrell's record Blues - The Common ...

During that Washington residency one of the students asked me for a recommendation on an inexpensive jazz cymbal. It's not really a bud...

Reedtweakapalooza continues! I really need to round these up in a book.  This is yet another thing to do with the straight 8th right hand l...

The drive home— the wilds of central Washington. I was out for a couple of days teaching some kids in the tri-cities area in central Washing...

Just came across this, quite an amazing documentary about Art Blakey, where they talk to Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Benny Golso...

This is where my thinking is going lately, towards breaking up some Reed practice systems so they're not pure formula. Which I have al...