Category Archives: Drum/Music News

News items of note, present and past, about drummers and other musicians.

DrummingNewsNetwork Features SKFBlog

SKF NOTE: DrummingNewsNetwork.com is an impressive web site where it’s hard to imagine a part of the drum world not covered. A few months ago, DrummingNewsNetwork.com owner, Paul Rogne, and I, had our first phone conversation. Two weeks ago Mr. … Continue reading

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Paul Butterfield – End of an Era

SKF NOTE: Musician/bandleader Paul Butterfield was one of my musical heroes during my high school years. Starting with his East-West album, which was the Butterfield Blues Band’s second album, my high school music friends and I absorbed Butterfield’s albums through … Continue reading

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Russ Kunkel and Leland Sklar

SKF NOTE: Hats off to the Drum Channel for their three-part series interview with one of pop music’s exemplary drums-bass partnerships: Russ Kunkel and Leland Sklar. The fourth video here is the trailer to a documentary, “The Immediate Family,” about … Continue reading

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Elvin Jones Rewrote Jazz Drumming

SKF NOTE: From my box of old jazz newspaper clippings comes this March 5, 1992 Peter Watrous review of Elvin Jones’s band at the Blue Note. “Mr. Jones rewrote jazz drumming in the 1960’s as a member of the John … Continue reading

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Human Expression vs Human Perfection

SKF NOTE: I was in my home office, Yo-Yo Ma was on tv, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I wasn’t familiar with Ma or his music. But after a few seconds of only half-listening to the sound he produced … Continue reading

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