Artists

Born in Morristown, NJ, Mike Adamo began drumming on pots and pans in the kitchen when he was two years old. At age eight, he switched over to a practice pad and sticks. Mike went on to study rudimental technique, jazz, latin, funk, and rock with New Jersey educators Andy Delucca and the great Joe […]

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was […]

Ernesto Antonio “Tito” Puente (April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000) was an American mambo musician and Latin jazz composer. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, living in New York City’s Spanish Harlem community, Puente is often credited as “The Musical Pope”, “El Rey de los Timbales” (The King of the […]

Chris Adler was born in Washington, DC on November 23, 1972. As a toddler, Chris began playing with broken sticks from his backyard on his parents coffee cans. As he grew he studied years of piano with his mother a singer, pianist and performer herself. Through middle school Chris learned alto saxophone and acoustic guitar […]

Gavin Harrison (born in May 28, 1963) is an English drummer and percussionist. He is best known for playing with the British progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree and King Crimson. His influences come from his father’s jazz collection and from drummers such as Steve Gadd and Jeff Porcaro. Gavin started to work professionally in 1979. […]

Born in 1976, in Richmond, Virginia, Willie Adler is best known as the rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for metal titans, Lamb Of God. At the age of just eleven, Willie was already banging is head to the beat of legendary metal bands like Metallica, and it wasn’t before long that he was thrashing away […]