When you walk into a concert hall or a jazz club and see a five-piece set of Pearl drums with an 18” bass drum, 10” and 12” power toms, a 14” floor tom, and a series of overlapping Zildjian cymbals on the right, each with a smaller upside-down bell, splash or China cymbal mounted on them, you know you are in for something very special! That is Billy Hart’s set, and Billy Hart is a living drumming legend. Billy is supremely open to all music and deeply interested in all approaches to drumming and musical traditions. He is a seeker and the infinite student of the drums. He is actively teaching in person at three different colleges every week, Montclair University in NJ, New England Conservatory in Boston, and Oberlin in Ohio. He teaches from an in-depth self-assembled curriculum, and a legendary and hefty packet of information that is worth […]

April 2025 Issue