Study Materials

  • "Great Hands For A Lifetime" Tommy Igoe (video)
  •  "Groove Essentials 1.0 and 2.0" Tommy Igoe (play a-long book/CD/video)
  • "Mini-Monster of Rock Drumming" Joel Rothman (book)
  •  "Orchestral Snare Drumming" Joel Rothman (book)
  • "Portraits In Rhythm" Anthony Cirone (book)
  • "The Art of Bop Drumming" John Riley (book/CD)
  • "Future Sounds" David Garibaldi (book/CD)
  • "Groove Alchemy" Stanton Moore (book/CD)
  • "Conversations In Clave" Horacio Hernandez (book/CD)
  • "Time Functioning Patterns" Gary Chaffee
  • "Studio and Big Band Drumming" Steve Houghton (book/CD)
  • "Zigaboo Modeliste: The Originator of New Orleans Funky Drumming" (DVD)

Recommended Listening

  • "Star Time" James Brown Box Set (various drummers, Stubblefield, Starks, Parker)
  • "Kind Of Blue" Miles Davis (Jimmy Cobb)
  • "Smokin' at the Half Note" Wynton Kelly (Jimmy Cobb)
  • "Hub Cap" Freddie Hubbard (Philly Joe Jones)
  • "Friends" Chick Corea (Steve Gadd)
  • "Where Have I Known You Before" Return To Forever (Lenny White)
  • "Red Clay" Freddie Hubbard (Lenny White)
  • "Monk's Dream" Thelonious Monk (Frankie Dunlop)
  • "Pick Hits Live" John Scofield (Dennis Chambers)
  • "Cosmic Messenger" Jean-Luc Ponty (Casey Scheuerell)
  • "Fingers" Airto Moreira
  • "A Calm In The Fire Of Dances" Deep Rumba (Horacio Hernandez, Robby Ameen)
  • "Ten Summoner's Tales" Sting (Vinnie Colaiuta)
  • "Dance Mania" Tito Puente
  • "Life On Planet Groove" Maceo Parker (Kenwood Dennard)
  • "What's Happening In Pernambuco" Brazilian Compilation
  • "Babylon By Bus" Bob Marley (Carlton Barrett)
  • " Roxy and Elsewhere" Frank Zappa (Chester Thompson, Ralph Humphrey)
  • "Cabbage Alley" (or any) The Meters (Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste
  • "Live On Planet Earth" The Neville Brothers ("Mean" Willie Green