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It’s a familiar sight each year at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival: As soon as the gates open each day, a group of eager fest-goers — many of them Jazz Fest veterans many times over — start ...

Jazz and heavy metal may seem unlikely partners, but there is a growing fusion of the two styles by musicians and a substantial history of mutual interest and influence among performers in each ...

Back in the early 1980s, Alex Skolnick was pretty much like any other teenager. He loved electric guitar players like Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and George Lynch. “I was caught up in the whole ...

People have their own path to becoming a jazz musician. Sometimes a parent or other family member who plays. Sometimes a musician starts off in one direction and then goes in another. Alex Skolnick ...

We are big fans of the Drumeo series where they throw songs at drummers who have never heard the music before, and ask them to play the track in their own style. Their most recent one finds jazz ...

Dennis Warren wanted to be a voracious student of the drums. Born in Boston, he didn’t start playing until his early twenties, but he pursued the discipline with full conviction, letting his instincts ...

The same June evening avant-gardist junkies flocked to Roulette to pay tribute to free jazz radical Milford Graves at Vision Fest, Greenpoint metal venue Saint Vitus played host to another kind of ...

Caustic, ugly, gurgling, putrid filth that wanders a post-apocalyptic landscape — with jazz influences! Excuse Me, Sir, You Have Some Jazz In Your Metal Excuse Me, Sir, You Have Some Jazz In Your ...