The Tool song "Schism" recently brought out a professional funk drummer's impressive improv chops after he heard the prog-rock track for the very first time. On the fly, he does an in-the-pocket drum ...

It didn’t take long for Clyde Stubblefield to start hating his greatest creation. The 20-second drum break, which he first played in a Cincinnati studio near the end of an exhausting 1969 tour with ...

Versatile drummer backed Jackson 5, Paul McCartney, D'Angelo, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake, Beck, and many others ...

Gadson’s work behind the kit can be heard on hit records by Bill Withers, the Jackson 5, and Diana Ross ...

The music world has lost a true innovator on the drums. Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown’s funk drummer and the creator of the most sampled drum break in hip-hop, has passed away from kidney failure on ...

“Two thousand miles I roam, just to make Madison my home.” —Clyde Stubblefield I never saw James Brown dance across the stage to Clyde Stubblefield’s funky beat, but I danced many times to that beat ...