Two great female drummers were honored this year by the annual German Jazz Prize.
Savannah Harris and her band Okse, and Philo Tsoungui.

https://www.moderndrummer.com/2025/06/german-jazz-prize-2025/

Savannah is also playing with Chris McBride and is in MD this month, Philo was in MD a few years ...

Saw the 1981 Houston gig (Escape Tour) on AXIS TV...
SO much better on TV than computer screen from Youtube.
Smith was insane in every way. His relaxed control, his
patterns, and that epic solo still blows me away 40 years
later. His ideas were so ahead of the times. Then the
drum sound he got ...

Chick actually loses 1 on Tumba and asks Vinnie for it resulting in a big SMASH on 1 soon after. Tumba and Humpty are pretty amazing on there - getting the CD and then the videos back then was FUN!

When I saw the Acoustic Band plus 2 (Wallace Roney and Bob Berg) the week or month before in NYC ...

If you haven't heard Wolf's "Mammoth" record, you should. It is a very good record. He plays and sings everything on it, and sounds great. I interviewed him (and Mammoth drummer Garrett Whitlock) for Modern Drummer last year, we talked about the record a lot, how Garrett interprets the drum parts ...

Chick actually loses 1 on Tumba and asks Vinnie for it resulting in a big SMASH on 1 soon after. Tumba and Humpty are pretty amazing on there - getting the CD and then the videos back then was FUN!

When I saw the Acoustic Band plus 2 (Wallace Roney and Bob Berg) the week or month before in NYC ...

If I remember correctly (and it's possible I'm wrong.) That is not Vinnie.

Vinnie was on the Timezone record (which is AMAZING!!!!!!) and (I think?) this is from Jackmagnet with David Logeman. I asked Vinnie about Timezone once, he said "Yeah we recorded that in Jakob's living room, we were just ...

Gavin is on the cover of the new Modern Drummer with a really long (and great) interview. Amongst many other topics he also discusses (at length) songwriting, the new PT song "Of The New Day," and the entire new PT record and it's origins. Every bar of "Of The New Day" is in a different time ...

Yeah Rodge I really dig the new version of Toto too.

And I agree, Paco is a GENIUS! I saw him play a kalimba solo with Joe that brought down the house, imagine that? He was the perfect drummer for Zawinul too , like Cornell Rochester, Paco was always "right on the edge." (And he sat with his ...

Mullet's days no joke... :D


Nik is a great artist.
I love everything Nik Kershaw has put out. Easily one of my favourite artists of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q711tY76_38

When I lived in Philly I worked with two older cats who were WAY into Nik, and they got me hooked on "The ...

The Prince "symbol" (especially the tune "Seven") record floored me. A few years ago I went on a Michael Bland dive, and fell in love with Jef Lee Johnson's "News From The Jungle," and Michel Portal's "Minneapolis We Insist," Ricky Peterson's "A Tear Can Tell" is incredible, and Phil Upchurch ...