A spontaneous brush technique lesson turned into a great musical moment. Watch as Eric Hagstrom teaches my 11-year-old Louis the basics of jazz brushes - enough to join our trio for a quick jam.

Last month, the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective organized a pilot program offering free jazz lessons to a set of Yale undergraduate students from all musical backgrounds. The program offers remote ...

A mainstay of jazz, brushes afford the drummer a softer-sounding alternative to sticks that's generally called on for pieces at the quieter end of the compositional spectrum - ie, ballads. They also ...

Today for Music Education Monday, you can get a video lesson from famed drummer Peter Erskine on “Playing Brushes With All Styles Of Music." First gaining wide attention in the mid-1970s as a member ...