Resources and Influences

Kyle Quass – MySpace Site. Trumpet, a unique voice

Cory Smythe – MySpace Site. Piano – Fantastic Musician

Greg Osby’s site is mostly designed for the purpose of advertising. Informational resources at his site are limited but it’s worth checking out his MP3s and tour dates.

This is Steve Coleman’s web site. Steve is doing some truly creative work in the field of a global approach to developing music. There are a number of free MP3s and links to some of Steve’s papers on harmony.

Another extremely creative musician, Vijay recently released an album Panoptic Modes that is very inspiring. Vijay’s site has some freely downloadable MP3s that are worth checking out. Also the link to his Academics site is thoroughly worth checking out

Jason Moran’s web site has freely downloadable MP3s as well as tour dates. Another artist very worth checking out.

Poovalur Srinivasan is an accomplished South Indian classical percussionist. Under his articles page you will find a paper he has written entitled “Mridangam” that discusses the instrument in mythology and history.

This is a link to Mamady Keita Djembe Rhythm Traditional Mandingue page. Quote from the page “The djembe is not reserved only for tradition. It is a popular instrument that can harmonize with all other instruments. It is open to all. There are performances and then there is the tradition. One must not confuse them. They are completely different.” It also discusses his view on the relationship between an instrument and the tradition it emerges from. Some of the views seem to contradict the quote here and may not stand up to experience but, the concepts are worth thoroughly thinking about.There are links to other educational material related to the traditions that are also worth exploring from there.

Part of the M-Base collective, Incredible drummer

This is a brief paper that describes an approach to solving the notation problem of rhythmic material development including that of displaying the nuances of microtiming

Here is an article from the Online Journal of the Society for Music Theory Dealing with Rhythm theory

Vijay Iyer’s Dissertation

This is the website for drum artisan Glenn McColloch. Glenn hand crafts excellent American made single piece lathe turned custom jembes. All of the lead jembe tracks presented at this website were crafted by Glenn.

Rhythm Fusion is a world music instrument vendor based in Santa Cruz. They have a variety of high quality percussion instruments.

Cooperman Drum and Fife is an excellent resource for high quality frame drums

One of the top resources for Latin and other Percussion instruments

Conrad Kubiak brings a high level of craftmanship to his quality non-traditional jembes.