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Copeland's new album, “Wild Concerto,” is out April 18. The Times recently spoke to the drummer-turned-composer about his new ...
The Uptown Rhythm Festival will mix styles, including tap, swing and flamenco, that are flourishing despite problems of rehearsal and performance space.
[Loop playing] ♪ Then you have the rhythm guitar... ♪ and that creates this whole ... Miller: And then Fred Wesley played the funkiest trombone solo that ever got recorded. I don't think anybody's ...
The Flower Power Cruise brought tons of memories and fun in the sun, and then a talk with ex-Beatles drummer Pete Best after ...
The Sydney band had a prior relationship with Oasis' Liam Gallagher who had used them as a support act on his solo shows ... keyboards and trombone. Completing the line up are rhythm guitarist ...
This ‘Independent Lens’ presentation focuses on the rise of funk in the 1960s and ’70s, highlighting its place in black music and politics.
“Once we got cemented into that, every time we started on a song, it was like, ‘What’s the trombone going to play here? What’s the tuba going to play?’ It helped us focus on what ...
Paul Desmond: Samba with Some Barbecue Originally titled “Struttin' with Some Barbecue" in 1941, this Satchmo tune lost its Dixie beat and got a bossa groove in the ... 2:39 Ella Fitzgerald “Rough ...
With his final release for Blue Note, ‘The Prisoner’, Herbie Hancock got “closer to the real me… than on any previous” album. The glue that held the music together, though, was a rhythm ...
It was tough to hear the strings over the rhythm section, and the horns played ... relinquish the piano bench so that he could take a solo. Marvin’s brilliance emerged as the set wore on.
I thought solo parenting would be fine with my husband away a third of the year. Then, I got pregnant with my second child and was puking nonstop, severely anemic, and mostly alone. I learned to ...