Max Roach was a pioneer in the jazz space and helped create the bop movement en route to being named one of the best drummers of all time. Among his great works was For Big Sid, a song off of his 1966 ...

Max Roach was a pioneer in the jazz space and helped create the bop movement en route to being named one of the best drummers of all time. Among his great works was For Big Sid, a song off of his 1966 ...

When you look at most rankings of the top drummers in the world, it's understandably filled with legends who are either no longer with us or long past their prime. These names include greats like John ...

The first definitive biography of Gene Krupa, the most famous drummer on the planet, whose feverish rhythms defined the Swing Era, changed jazz music forever, spurred rock and roll, and influenced ...

Legendary jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette, best known for his work with Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins, has passed away at age 83. Jack DeJohnette, the legendary jazz musician who played ...

Roy Haynes, the powerful and prolific jazz drummer whose career stretched from the swing era of the 1940s to the fusion era of the 1970s, and surged in the 1990s as he began collecting Grammys, medals ...

Critic Martin Johnson says DeJohnette, who died Oct. 26, was one of the greatest jazz drummers of the past 60 years. He played with a range of musicians, including Miles Davis and Bill Evans. This is ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Jazz drummer Walter Perkins was greeted to a jam packed house full of musicians, vocalists, friends in a special tribute to him. Walter Perkins has been treated for lung cancer with radiation and was ...

This is FRESH AIR. The extraordinary drummer and composer Jack DeJohnette died in October at the age of 83. DeJohnette was one of the greatest jazz drummers of the past 60 years, and he played with a ...