Marc Mellits - "Tight Sweater"

Excerpt from the piece TIGHT SWEATER by Marc Mellits. Nick Photinos (cello), Brian Archinal (percussion), and Isabelle O'Connell (piano) 2007 BOAC Festival

CSULB New Music Ensemble

The CSULB Cole Conservatory New Music Ensemble will be performing Steve Reich's Drumming.

The concert will be presented in the University Studio Theater. The theater is located on Upper Campus and is a theater in the round. It will be a unique opportunity to hear all of Drumming.

For directions to the theater, please visit: http://daf.csulb.edu/maps/campus/south.html

Parking is available in Lot 7.

The group So Percussion performs the first part of Drumming in 2007 at Ameoba Records in Hollywood, CA.

Tribute (African Drum Duo) - Mvt. 1

IronWorks Percussion perform the first movement of "Tribute" by Dave Gerhart. The IronWorks Duo gave the premiere performance on October 12, 2008.

Program Notes: Tribute, a three-movement work for any six drums for two players, was written as a tribute to three figures that have had an influence on my musical career. I wrote Tribadacious (movement 1) as a homage to one of my teachers, Brad Dutz, and his composition Ewe Day. The syncopated rhythms and different tone colors (rim, dead strokes, drum shell and open tones) are all inspired by the African drumming from the Ewe tribe (Ghana). ||: Tribute :|| (movement 2) is a homage to Steve Reich and the minimalist musical movement. The ostinato figures and additive processes are reminiscent of Reichs compositional style. The third movement, Djunute, is a homage to the Djembe music of the Ivory Coast. This fast, aggressive movement uses repeated rhythmic interlocking figures and soloistic phrases invoking the spirit of the music from Guinea and Mali. The performance features 6 Ewe drums being played with sticks, brushes and felt mallets.
—Dave Gerhart

Louie Bellson - Bern, Baby, Bern

Jack DeJohnette Drum Solo

Jack DeJohnette performs a drum solo at the Modern Drummer Festival 1997.

Jack DeJohnette & Foday Musa Suso plays Sunjatta Keita

Jack DeJohnette (Drum Set) & Foday Musa Suso (Kora) play Sunjatta Keita at the Philips Music World Festival - 2004

Renegades play Dr. Jit

Steve Smith talkes about John Bonham drum grooves

A Night In Tunisia - Ray Brown Trio

Gene Harris(p) ,Ray Brown(b) ,Jeff Hamilton(ds) 1988

Jeff Hamilton Drum Solo