Aldo Mazza is best known through his work as a clinician and founder of the KoSA workshops, and as a longtime member of the Canadian ensemble Répercussion. Born in Italy and raised in Canada, Mazza has called Montreal home for some time, but performing and teaching has led him all over. He has made Cuban music a particular focus, traveling to Cuba and leading study programs there several times a year since 2001. His new method book/video package is a concise resource for Cuban rhythms as he learned them from the masters. Cuban Rhythms for Percussion and Drumset covers the country’s most popular dances, and is focused around an understanding of clave and conga technique from which the pulse in Cuban music is derived. “The way I designed the book and the way I teach my students,” Mazza explains, “is to first understand the idea of clave. Once that is […]