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Eric Harland — Jazz Swinger, Drum Prophet

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Story by Ken Micallef | Photos by Gene Ambo
Dec 27, 2019

Joel Taylor

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Story by Ken Micallef | Photos by Alex Solca
Dec 27, 2019

Darryl "Lil Man" Howell

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Story by Stephen Styles | Photos by Gene Ambo
Dec 27, 2019

The Drummers of David Byrne's American Utopia

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Story by Jeff Potter | Photos by Matthew Murphy
Dec 27, 2019

Chris Vatalaro—Man on the Move

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By Bob Girouard | Photos by Anton Coene
Dec 27, 2019
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Tower of Power’s David Garibaldi

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by Jeff Potter
Dec 18, 2019

Gunnar Olsen

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Story by Patrick Berkery | Photos by Savannah Lauren
Nov 25, 2019

The 2019 Chicago Drum Show

The Show, now in its twenty-ninth year, is one of the largest and longest-running drum exhibitions in the world.

Story and photos by Bob Campbell
Nov 25, 2019

The Aristocrats’ Marco Minnemann

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By Mike Haid
Nov 25, 2019

Eric Singer of Kiss

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Story by Ilya Stemkovsky | Photos by Nicola Ciccarone
Nov 25, 2019

Skillet's Jen Ledger

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Story by Ilya Stemkovsky photos by Paul La Raia
Nov 25, 2019

Tower of Power's David Garibaldi: The Beat Builder

Building upon the James Brown legacy, he expanded the vocabulary of beat-displacement groove patterns and applied them in a “linear” concept.

by Jeff Potter
Nov 25, 2019
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Security Project's Jerry Marotta The Rhythm and the Heat

Recreating the sounds and grooves he conceived with Peter Gabriel — and reminding us just how shockingly satisfying they were.

Story by Ken Micallef | Photos by Paul La Raia
Oct 29, 2019

Jerry Roe

By day he makes hits with country-music superstars.

Story by Jeff Potter | Photos by Rick Malkin
Oct 29, 2019
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