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View ArticleThe Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown
Clyde Stubblefield and Jabo Starks should have been rivals: James Brown hired both of them to do one job. Instead, they stuck together, and laid the foundation for modern funk drumming in the...
View ArticleMystic Rhythms: Rush's Neil Peart On The First Rock Drummer
Peart is one of the world's greatest rock drummers, but his earliest influence comes from jazz.(Image credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Santería ceremonies are for calling out to the spiritual world, and that spiritual connection is made through music. Felix Contreras explores how some sacred beats made a secular crossover.(Image...
View ArticleThe Tabla Master Who Jammed With The Grateful Dead
Schooled from birth in an ancient instrument, Zakir Hussain always wanted to rock. He found a way to do both after George Harrison gave him some shrewd career advice.(Image credit: Jim McGuire/Courtesy...
View ArticlePercussionist Bobbye Hall Is A Liner-Note Legend
Hall has played with everyone from Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson to Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan. She grew up in Detroit in the '60s, and was sitting in on Motown sessions before she could drive.(Image...
View ArticleThe Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown
Clyde Stubblefield and Jabo Starks should have been rivals: James Brown hired both of them to do one job. Instead, they stuck together, and laid the foundation for modern funk drumming in the...
View ArticleMystic Rhythms: Rush's Neil Peart On The First Rock Drummer
Peart is one of the world's greatest rock drummers, but his earliest influence comes from jazz.(Image credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
View ArticleHow Santería Seeped Into Latin Music
Santería ceremonies are for calling out to the spiritual world, and that spiritual connection is made through music. Felix Contreras explores how some sacred beats made a secular crossover.(Image...
View ArticleThe Tabla Master Who Jammed With The Grateful Dead
Schooled from birth in an ancient instrument, Zakir Hussain always wanted to rock. He found a way to do both after George Harrison gave him some shrewd career advice.(Image credit: Jim McGuire/Courtesy...
View ArticlePercussionist Bobbye Hall Is A Liner-Note Legend
Hall has played with everyone from Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson to Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan. She grew up in Detroit in the '60s, and was sitting in on Motown sessions before she could drive.(Image...
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