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Vicki Randle
Living For The Music
Vicki Randle, percussionist and singer for the Tonight Show band for the past fourteen years, loves her job—partially because of the eclectic music she gets to play, but also because it’s performed live.
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Kaspar Rast
Master Of Minimalist Funk
Ronin’s music is characterized by complex, interlocking patterns, modular constructions, repetitive motifs, and polymetric pulses. Bärtsch has described the music as “Zen funk.” (Imagine James Brown jamming with Steve Reich.)
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Kurt Reil
Creating The Right Vibe
When New Jersey psychedelic revivalists The Grip Weeds decided to remix, remaster, and reissue their 1994 debut album, House Of Vibes, it didn’t hurt that the band’s drummer and lead singer, Kurt Reil, is also a professional recording engineer.
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Brian Reitzell
Making Music Out Of Thin Air
Though Brian Reitzell is known in some circles as a drummer first, he maintains a “second” career as a film music producer, choosing and in many cases composing and recording soundtrack music to many of the most highly regarded films of the past several years, including Friday Night Lights, Stranger Than Fiction, Thumbsucker, and Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation and Marie Antoinette.
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Raul Rekow
Santana Now: A Force Of Nature
A rhythmic force of nature since its
inception in San Francisco's Mission District in 1966, the Santana band has always set the bar high. And now, with superstar
drummer Dennis Chambers joining percussionists Raul Rekow and Karl Perazzo, the bar (and the expectation) is even higher.
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Sean "The Rick" Rickman
The Natural
In viewing the Compositional Drumming DVD by Washington, DC born Sean Rickman, one is immediately taken
aback by his advanced drumming skills. No question, he is in a league with fusion greats Dennis Chambers, Steve Smith, and
Dave Weckl. Rickman, also a talented multi-instrumentalist, composed the complex music and played all instruments on the
DVD.
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Max Roach
The Most Modern Drummer
Simply put, Max Roach brought jazz drumming into the modern age. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell revolutionized jazz with new melodies and concepts; Max matched these musical geniuses with startling rhythms and reactive, action-packed drumming that still influences drummers on a profound level today.
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Lil' John Roberts
Lil' John Roberts
Lil' John Roberts's name has been
popping up more and more here at MD - in interviews with other artists, in conversations with people in the drum
industry
- and, most importantly, in mail from fans. It seems everyone is talking about Lil' John. And after seeing him play,
you'd know why.
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Scott Rockenfield
Operation: Master Juggler
Scott Rockenfield could be considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the drumming industry.
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Derek Roddy
Today's Most Extreme Drummer
Blast Beats. If you’re into metal drumming, then you probably know all about ’em: blistering 16th- and/or 32nd-note grooves using single strokes between the bass drum and snare drum (right hand usually mimicking the bass drum on the ride cymbal). And if you’re into blast beats, then you probably know about Derek Roddy.
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Morgan Rose
Resurrected
Morgan Rose uses the word “resurrected” when describing the current state of Sevendust, the band he co-founded over ten years ago.
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Tony Royster, Jr.
Playing With Pure Energy
Tony Royster Jr. has been busy. We caught up with him while he was home for a couple of days from globetrotting with En Vogue.
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