Videos
Drum Clinic with Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins)
One of the founding members of Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Chamberlin demonstrates his craft on past Pumpkins tunes as well as talking about past rock drummers and their role in the history of music.
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver – “Blue Train”
At the Volcano Room, 333 ft below the Cumberland Mountains, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver perform traditional bluegrass string band sounds, complete with the “high, lonesome” vocals.
Dave Brubeck – Take Five
from a 1961 performance on the Jazz Casual television program. Dave Brubeck (piano), Paul Desmond (alto sax), Eugene Wright (bass) and Joe Morello (drums).
Danny & the Juniors – At the Hop
In 1957 a white doo-wop group combined close vocal harmonies with the 12 bar blues in a sanitized white-teenage pop sound. Beneath the matching suits and simplistic choreography is the 12 bar blues – the same musical formula used by blues artists like Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton, jump blues and R&B artists like Big …