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  • 12 - Mentorship

  • from Part III - Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit
  • Edited by Matt Brennan, University of Glasgow, Joseph Michael Pignato, Daniel Akira Stadnicki, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
    Published online:
    28 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 168-180

  • Summary

    Jazz music has long been understood as a generational practice, one where older musicians mentor, encourage, and teach younger, aspiring players. That tradition of tutelage is evident in the long lineages of musicians who have graduated from the ensembles of noted bandleaders. Historical examples include Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. In this chapter, the author considers mentoring as it relates to two drum kit players; Jack DeJohnette, a major figure in the history of jazz drumming and a bandleader recognized for nurturing younger musicians, and Terri Lyne Carrington, a premiere figure in contemporary jazz drumming and a celebrated leader of ensembles that feature young, developing musicians. The chapter is organized according to four broad themes: (a) the importance of mentors; (b) challenges of learning to play the drum kit; (c) the unique place and space of drummers; and (d) ‘something bigger than just the music’. Those themes emerged during a series of interviews with the two participants and in qualitative analysis of the participant thoughts, statements, and expressions.

The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
  • Edited by Matt Brennan, Joseph Michael Pignato, Daniel Akira Stadnicki
  • Published online:
    28 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021
  • The drum kit is ubiquitous in global popular music and culture, and modern kit drumming profoundly defined the sound of twentieth-century popular music. The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit highlights emerging scholarship on the drum kit, drummers and key debates related to the instrument and its players. Interdisciplinary in scope, this volume draws on research from across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences to showcase the drum kit, a relatively recent historical phenomenon, as a site worthy of analysis, critique, and reflection. Providing readers with an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the instrument, this book will be a valuable resource for students, drum kit studies scholars, and all those who want a deeper understanding of the drum kit, drummers, and drumming.