We invite them all to step out from behind their kits and take a much-deserved bow in this, our special Drummer Issue. Some might argue that jazz as a style evolved primarily from its rhythmic elements and so we celebrate the contributions recent and past of the timekeepers that make this music swing (or maybe not). Our first issue of spring focuses on those crucial engines of jazz, the drummers. 3 New Interview: Pierre Favre by Ken Waxman Artist Feature: Tomas Fujiwara by Sean Fitzell On The Cover: Cindy Blackman-Santana by Martin Longley Encore: Lest We Forget: Michael Carvin Big Sid Catlett by Anders Griffen Megaphone by Dieter Ulrich Label Spotlight: ugexplode by Clifford Allen by Clifford Allen VOXNews by Katie Bull Listen Up!: Flin van Hemmen & Oliver Steidle Festival Report: Winterjazz Köln Might I Suggest CD Reviews: Tom Rainey, Andrew Cyrille, Jeff Tain Watts, Ches Smith, Johnathan Blake, Jeff Hamilton, Elvin Jones, Allan Browne and more Event Calendar Club Directory Miscellany: In Memoriam Birthdays On This Day To describe the contents of this issue, we quote the immortal words of MC Rakim: You ask me how I did em / I let the rhythm em.
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