The Detroitwich Funk Machine brings 70s and 80s funk, jazz-funk and fusion classics to Worcester’s Marr’s Bar, January 22.

The legacy of an award-winning Gombey, who helped preserve and strengthen one of the island’s deeply cherished traditions, has been celebrated as embodying pride in heritage. Tyrone Alexander “Funk” ...

Josh Freese is one of many great drummers to have featured in Guns N’ Roses over the years – and as far as he’s concerned, nobody could ever play the way Steven Adler did on the band’s legendary debut ...

Ralph Rolle occupies one of the grooviest drum chairs on the planet. As well as his job, holding down the foundation for disco/funk legends Nile Rogers & Chic, Ralph has also played for an impressive ...

Ripe, pretty much the funkiest band around, nearly had to scrap its appearance at the Levitate Music & Arts Festival this weekend following a gnary golf cart accident in New Hampshire in late June ...

Drummers are often the underdogs in a band, and they don’t get the spotlight as often as they deserve, even though their playing is the backbone of every song, every performance. Even when you look at ...

The temperature had dipped below freezing outside, but on a cold February night in Ballard the Tractor Tavern burned bright with the rapid-fire, intricate, kinetic drumming of Thai drummer and ...

In a city known for producing world-class musicians, few embody the spirit of New Orleans like jazz and funk drum legend Johnny Vidacovich. With his signature laid-back feel and unrestrained ...

The post The Consequence Drummer Survey: 65 Drummers Name Their Favorite Drummers of All Time appeared first on Consequence. Consequence’s Drum Week couldn’t have come to fruition without the help of ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

In part six of KHOL’s Workers series, local jazz and funk musician Tom Goicoechea uses his own passion for music to help treat and educate local youth. Fostering musical engagement in youth has guided ...

It's a Wednesday night in the venerable Bayou Bar of the Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans – one of the best (and least publicized) jazz gigs in the city known as the cradle of jazz. Herlin Riley is ...