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Bobby Jarzombek
Impressive Performance & Technique
After viewing the newly released DVD Performance & Technique (Warner Bros.) from monster prog-metal drummer Bobby Jarzombek, it's easy to see why he was chosen by metal's flashiest frontman, Rob Halford, for the metal god's solo project a few years back.

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Michael Jerome
Balancing Creativity And Cash
Pleasure Club's Michael Jerome admits that with the release of their second studio album, The Fugitive Kind, the band is both excited and nervous.


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Evan Johns
The Time Of His Life
Evan Johns says the last two and a half years have been a long journey for his band, Hurt. “There was a lot of not eating, yelling, and screaming, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do, man,’” Johns reports.

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Mark Johnson
Playing Tony's Drums With Wallace Roney
Do those canary-yellow drums look familiar? That's because they belonged to the late Tony Williams, who gave them to trumpeter Wallace Roney.

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Elvin Jones
The Legend Only Grows
On the eve of his seventy-fifth birthday, Elvin Ray Jones exhibits the relaxed demeanor and lean physique of a weathered--but still dangerous--championship athlete. When he smiles, which is often, he still looks like he's twenty-five. His sense of humor is sharp, his intellect acute. And as anyone who has seen him perform on what seems like a never-ending world tour will tell you, Elvin is still the man, a drummer of incredible prowess, facility, and earthquake-rendering swing. He's a musician who carries with him the weight of history, but who always works in the moment, summoning a sound that is one of the great musical phenomenons of our time.
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Elvin Jones
A Tribute To Elvin Jones
As Elvin Jones walked onto the stage to begin his PASIC 2002 clinic, he was greeted with a standing ovation that lasted for several minutes. I had witnessed the same thing a few months earlier, when Elvin performed at a jazz festival at the University of Louisville, and various acquaintances have told me of similar ovations that greeted Jones over the past few years at clubs, concerts, and clinics.

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Harold Jones
Back With Bennett
Harold Jones' golf game is reportedly a lot better now than the last time he was in Tony Bennett's band. But that's just one of the changes the drummer has been through in the thirty years he's been away from Bennett.

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Phil Jordan
Welcome To The Groove
When Phil Jordan sits down behind the kit for his band, UK rockers The Music, he has one goal in mind: making people dance. Jordan says the secret is in the dynamics.

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