In this month’s Jazz Drummer’s Workshop, the Brooklyn-based drummer and educator Mike Alfieri demonstrates ways to develop unique ride patterns inspired by the jazz great Tony Williams. To coincide with the piece, we asked our readers and social media followers to name one album that Williams played on that best sums up his enduring drumming. MD cover artist and jazz ambassador Matt Wilson weighed in with Eric Dolphy’s Out to Lunch! while the studio legend and MD Readers Poll Hall of Famer Vinnie Colaiuta offered Miles Davis’s Nefertiti as one pick. Here are some more responses.   One of my favorites is the Miles Davis record Filles de Kilimanjaro [1968]. It was
a transitional album for Davis and jazz
in general, and Tony’s playing changed, too. The rock music of the day had a big effect on them, and this was the last record before Miles changed his sound completely again and […]

February 2019 Issue