Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 90 - Ryan Patterson

2018 Mizzou Master of Music Percussion Graduate Ryan Patterson stops by to talk about his master’s recital (01:10), his upcoming trip to Ghana, Bernard Woma, and running the Mizzou drumline (09:45), his work with the Rare Form Trio and why he’s off to UT-Austin for grad school (23:10), being a current grad student in percussion (31:25), growing up in SC near Clemson and Greenville (35:35), studying with recent guest Omar Carmenates at Furman (SC) and the idea of “coffee lessons” (52:00), the roundabout way he got to Mizzou (01:15:35), and the Random-Ass Questions (01:26:45).

Finishing with a Rave on NCPP 2018 (01:36:55).

Links:

Megan Arns

Omar Carmenates

Rebecca McDaniel

anna provo

"Economy of Means" - Robert Honstein

"Toccata" - Anna Ignatowicz

Ji Hye Jung

"Rebonds A/B" - Iannis Xenakis

"Phylogenesis" - Russell Wharton

"Karakurenai" - Andy Akiho

"Spiderweb Lead" - Adam Silverman

Dagara Music Center

Bernard Woma

Amy Knopps

Rare Form Trio

John W. Parks IV

Darin Olson

Brian Nozny

Nief-Norf

Furman Band Directors

"Moto Perpetuo" - Elliot Carter

Concerto for Marimba - Emmanuel Séjourné

Haunt of Last Nightfall - David Little

Shane Batchelor

Julia Gaines

Brad Snow

Raves:

NCPP

 

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 89 - Omar Carmenates

Furman University (SC) Percussion Professor Omar Carmenates stops by to talk about getting the Furman job and “carrying snacks” (01:30), his DMA research thesis and lecture recital (14:45), the greatness of the city of Greenville, SC (25:50), the Gaia Theory CD he released in 2013 (30:40), his DCI employment (35:30), growing up in NYC and Orlando, FL, his mixed-race background and transcribing Dream Theater (44:10), going to the University of Central Florida for undergrad (01:04:30), North Texas for the master’s (01:12:05), and going to FSU for the doctorate after not making the West Point Hellcats (01:20:35).  Finally, Omar withstands the Random-Ass Questions (01:33:25).

Finishing with another rave on the Hit Parade podcast (01:48:00).

Links:

Omar Carmenates' Furman page

Omar Carmenates' Cadets page

Omar Carmenates' Pearl Drums page

John W. Parks IV

John Beckford

Rebecca McDaniel

"Thief" - Brian Nozny

"Scavenger Music" - Christopher Deane

"Inuksuit" - John Luther Adams

Doug DeMorrow

George Hincapie

John Psathas

La Mer - Debussy

Symphony No. 6 - Beethoven

Boston Crusaders

The Magic Drum and Bugle Corps

McDowells from Coming to America

Immigrant Parents from Master of None

Village Beatnicks

Grunge

Mike Fillion

"Marimba Spiritual" - Minoru Miki

"A Change of Seasons" - Dream Theater

Jeff Moore

Oliver Molina

"Fabian Theory" - Nigel Westlake

"Gate to Heaven" - David Gillingham

Michael League

Ellis Hampton

Juan Álamo

I-Jen Fang

North Texas Percussion Faculty

"Three Movements for Solo Dancer" - Eckhard Kopetzki

"History of the Tango" - Astor Piazzola

Caribbean Jazz Project

West Point Hellcats

Rob Marino

Jeff Prosperie

Troy Breaux

Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan

Men At Work trailer

Prayer of the Rollerboys trailer

LEGO Ninjago trailer

"Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" - Michael Jackson

Impression, Sunrise - Claude Monet

Raves:

Hit Parade: The Veronica Electronica Edition

 

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 88 - Thomas Claesen

Blue Knights Drum Corps instructor Thomas Claesen talks about his current working and living situation in the U.S. (01:25), growing up in Belgium and all things Team Handball (15:45), Belgium’s history, geography and culture (24:00), Music Education and Drum Corps activities in Belgium (41:10), how he got to Arizona State (56:25), the challenges of trying to make some type of career out of DCI and WGI and foreign language usage (01:13:30), and dealing with “tough” Random Ass Questions (01:34:20).

Finishing with a rave on a live taping of Slate’s Political Gabfest (01:54:35).

Links:

Thomas Claesen's website

Thomas Claesen's Innovative Percussion page

Thomas Claesen's Blue Knights page

Rhythm X

Chelsea Levine

Seavine Gloves

U.S.A. visas

Nashville Predators

Rules of Handball

"In Flanders Fields" - John McCrae

"Benelux"

The Glassmen

European X

Andrew Markworth

J.B. Smith

Elizabeth Delamater

Dom Moio

Santa Clara Vanguard

Murray Gusseck

V for Vendetta trailer

Wes Anderson

Inglourious Basterds trailer

USA - Belgium World Cup 2014

2011 Cavaliers Upside Down Quad Break

The Happening trailer

Rene Magritte paintings

Raves:

Slate's Political Gabfest

 

 

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 87 - Andrea Venet

University of North Florida Percussion Professor and half of the percussion duo Escape Ten Andrea Venet chats about getting the UNF job and Scampi, the Jumbo Shrimp (01:55), making audiobook versions of the Grout text to handle the oral exams at Eastman (17:10), the story of Escape Ten (25:55), growing up in Tucson and Phoenix (32:25), going to Arizona State for undergrad (48:20), Rutgers (NJ) for the master’s (56:15), working in Dallas and later Virginia (01:05:35), going to Eastman for the DMA (01:14:25), being a woman in the percussion world (01:19:35), and the rest of the Random-Ass Questions (01:25:35).

Finishing with a rave on the TV show Atlanta (01:46:55).

Links:

Andrea Venet's website

Andrea Venet's UNF page

Escape Ten

Drew Tucker

Shaun Martin

Valerie Naranjo

Line Upon Line

Scampi, the Jumbo Shrimp Mascot

Charlotte Mabrey

Megan Arns

A History of Western Music - Donald Grout

Ron Swanson's Pyramid of Greatness

American Pharoah wins Triple Crown, 2015

J. B. Smith

"Dances of Earth and Fire" - Peter Klatzow

"Chaconne" - J. S. Bach

"Canaries" - Elliot Carter

"Marimbology" - Gunther Schuller

She-e Wu

Aaron Ragsdale

"Velocities" - Joseph Schwantner

"Merlin" - Andrew Thomas

"Rebellion" - Stephen Rush

Kenan Wylie

Michael Burritt

Star Trek into Darkness trailer

Anchorman trailer

"Thriller" - Michael Jackson

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn

Raves:

Atlanta

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 86 - Alina Grimm

Drake University (IA) Assistant Dean of Student Services and Percussion Educator Alina Grimm talks about her current job (02:30), the history of Drake University and its place in Iowa (13:20), what State Fair Week is like in Des Moines (31:40), growing up near Denver (37:40), going to Drake for undergrad (58:25), the culture shock of going to UTEP for her master’s (01;08:15), her DMA time at Michigan State (01:22:40), and the Random-Ass Questions (01:37:30).

Finishing with a remembrance for a recently deceased friend (02:01:20).

Links:

Alina Grimm's Drake University page

Todd Meehan

Robert Meunier

Iowa - Iowa State rivalry

Elliot Carter's Timpani Etudes

"Dream of the Cherry Blossoms" - Keiko Abe

"Land" - Takatsugu Muramatsu

Larry Smith

Andy Smith

Amy Smith

"Caméléon" - Eric Sammut

Concerto for Marimba - Emmanuel Séjourné

Gwen Dease

Jonathan Haas

Svet Stoyanov

Ji Hye Jung

Jon Weber

"See Ya Thursday" - Steve Mackey

"The King of Denmark" - Morton Feldman

"The Lonelyness of Santa Clause" - Fredrik Andersson

"Mojave" - Michael Torke

Zeltsman Marimba Festival

Biodome trailer

The Emoji Movie trailer

Lawrence of Arabia trailer

Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T. E. Lawrence

One Thousand and One Nights

The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain

"Trio Per Uno", movement 3 - Zivkovic

To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

 

 

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 85 - Rebecca Kite (Part 2)

Part 2 of my conversation with Rebecca Kite resumes with her time at the UMKC Conservatory (02:00), her years playing drumset in a jazz, pop and funk coverband in the 1970s (07:15), recalling some memorable Keiko Abe performances (23:45) her time studying with Cloyd Duff in Cleveland and George Gaber at Indiana University (27:05), symphony freelancing (40:50), timpani manufacturing and patents (44:00), guitar literature transcribed for marimba (01:02:00), being a woman in the percussion world (01:10:00), and then the Random Ass Questions (01:23:00).

Finishing with a rave on the Hit Parade podcast (01:36:15).

Links:

Part 1 of the Rebecca Kite Interview

Rebecca Kite's Homepage

Cloyd Duff

"Jazzman" - Carole King

"Did You Go Downtown" - Joy of Cooking

Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder

"Lullaby of Broadway" - Bette Midler

"Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple

"Pick Up the Pieces" - Average White Band

"Girl from Ipanema" - Astrud Gilberto

"Long Train Runnin" - The Doobie Brothers

"So Very Hard to Go" - Tower of Power

"Get Up Offa That Thing" - James Brown

Norm Weinberg

"Jazz Suite for Marimba" - Joan Griffith

Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer - Jim Chapin

"Time for Marimba" - Minoru Miki

George Gaber

Richard Johnson

Concertino for Marimba - Paul Creston

"Variations on a Theme of Handel" - Mauro Giuliani

DeMorrow Instruments

John Dowland

"Etude No. 1" - Hector Villa-Lobos

Sticking It Out - Patty Niemi

"Baby Elephant Walk" - Henry Mancini

"Autumn Leaves" - Roger Williams

Roger Reynolds

"The Wave" - Ludwig Albert performing

Raves:

Hit Parade Podcast

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 84 - Rebecca Kite (Part 1)

Percussion educator, performer, manufacturer, researcher and publisher Rebecca Kite stops by to talk about her most recent percussion pedagogy research (05:30), handling students who arrive musically behind (26:05), all the different ways people find percussion as a genre (31:30), what it took to research Keiko Abe's life (35:15), the History of the Marimba section (57:30), and the beginnings of her musical life (01:06:30).

Finishing with a rave on the novel Ready Player One (01:24:30).

Links:

Rebecca Kite's Homepage

Charmaine Asher-Wiley

Anthony Di Sanza

Jessica Johnson

Julia Gaines

Keiko Abe: A Virtuosic Life

Akira Miyoshi

Minoru Miki

Akira Yuyama

Karen Ervin Pershing

Haskell Harr

Frank Arsenault

Norm Weinberg

Johnny Lee Lane

Stamina - Mitch Markovich

Sonata for 3 Timpani - Philip Ramey

Raves:

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 83 - Alice Pan

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 82 - Aarik Danielsen

Columbia Tribune (MO) Arts Writer Aarik Danielsen stops by (literally) to talk about his current work (02:45), some recent changes at the Tribune and his experiences interviewing authors (16:30), growing up in California and Arizona and his love of music and movies (29:00), his favorite music writing (37:45), getting to Missouri through SW Baptist College (46:45), his experiences with adoption and race (52:45), eventually getting his Master’s in Journalism from Mizzou (01:06:00), and experiences Random-Ass Questions (01:14:30), finishing with mutual gushing over James Baldwin (01:29:00).

Links:

Aarik Danielsen's Columbia Tribune Bio

Aarik Danielsen's Twitter feed

Fathom Magazine

Columbia One Read

Unbound Book Festival

The Mavericks

Leon Bridges

Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival

The Blue Note (MO)

Die Hard trailer

Wayne's World trailer

Chuck Klosterman

Nick Hornby

Rob Sheffield

Andy Greenwald

Meet Me in the Bathroom

Missouri School of Journalism

Brandon Crawford

Madison Bumgarner

"Lights" - Journey

Shakespeare's Pizza

Groundhog Day trailer

Kazaam trailer

I Am Not Your Negro trailer

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Another Country - James Baldwin

 

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 81 - Danny Frye

High Point University (NC) Director of Bands Danny Frye joins the podcast to talk about his current job and the history of the city of High Point (3:30), the convoluted path to finishing his doctorate from UNCG (19:15), growing up in Burlington, NC (32:00), his interest and (early) work in puppetry (41:00), his undergrad at East Carolina University and UNCG (45:30), his masters years at Manhattan SOM and UNCG (59:30), and deals with my Random-Ass Questions (01:30:15).

Finishing with a rave on the 2018 NCAA Tournament (01:40:55).

Links:

Danny Frye's High Point University page

Danny Frye's Innovative Percussion page

Kevin Bowen

High Point Market

"Let it Ride" - Bachman Turner Overdrive

Gary Westbrook

Tony Mason

Rob Falvo

Harold Jones

"Sea Refractions" - Mitchell Peters

"Yellow After the Rain" - Mitchell Peters

Cort McClaren

John Locke

Chris Brown

"Torse III" - Akira Miyoshi

John H. Beck

"Canaries" - Elliot Carter

Lance Drege

"Different Voices" - Lynn Glassock

"5 Pieces for Clarinet and Percussion Orchestra" - Philip Parker

Kelly Burke

"Shadow Chasers" - Michael Burritt

Michael Burritt

Jim Catalano

Michael Combs

J. C. Combs

Leigh Howard Stevens

"Spiral Passages" - Jan Metzger

Defending Your Life trailer

Turner and Hooch trailer

"Working Day and Night" - Michael Jackson

"As" - Jacob Collier and Becca Stevens

Raves:

The NCAA Tournament

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 80 - Brandon Arvay, 2018

Episode 30 guest Brandon Arvay returns to talk about his changed life and percussion podcasts right now (01:15), social media (06:15), his thoughts on “actually doing stuff” (17:10), funding and athletics (28:30), whether ever school needs a concert band (38:10), his current work schedule (45:15), the percussion job market and turning down the UNC-Pembroke job (55:35), sports talk (01:12:00), and more teaching talk (01:17:30).

Finishing with a rave on the documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (01:28:40).

Links:

Brandon Arvay's website

Brandon Arvay's previous appearance on the podcast

Brian Zator

Discussions in Percussion

Liquidrum

The Grid Book Series

Mark Perrett

Huei-Yuan Pan

Jim Campbell

Marching Health

"The Gatekeepers" - Brandon Arvay

Casey Neistat's YouTube page

Colin Hill

The Bulletproof Musician

Drew Tucker's Young Percussionists Column

John Wooton

Mark Stoops

Casey Cangelosi

Kevin Bobo

Gwen Dease

Victoria Sparks

Raves:

Won't You Be My Neighbor trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 79 - Justin Johnson

Ragsdale (NC) High School Co-Band Director and Percussion Instructor Justin Johnson talks about his current percussion life after some time in the I.T. world (02:25), growing up in southern Virginia and playing drumset and organ in church (42:55), his high school life as a basketball and track star (51:40), going to Radford University (VA) for undergrad (01:01:00), doing the Master’s at UNCG along with Lamon Lawhorn (01:17:00), and holding on for the Random-Ass Questions (01:29:10).

Finishing with a Rave on the film Tell Them We Are Rising (01:47:10).

Links:

Justin Johnson's Homepage

Gate City Percussion

GTCC Titans drumline

Lamon Lawhorn

Jeff Au

Duke-UConn 1999

Al Wojtera

Cort McClaren

Kris Keeton

Matt Savage

Eric Willie

Trey Harris

Michael Jordan

Kenyon Martin

Tim Duncan

"Mudra" - Bob Becker

"Merlin" - Andrew Thomas

"Wind in the Bamboo Grove" - Keiko Abe

"Wicca" - Casey Cangelosi

Black Surfer

Neeraj Mehta

Dave Weckl

"Five Minute Drill"

Concerto for Percussion - John Mackey

Black Panther trailer

Back to the Future trailer

Drumline: A New Beat trailer

"Shofukan" - Snarky Puppy

Raves:

Tell Them We Are Rising trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 78 - Josh Smith

Lexington (KY) area freelance percussionist and music publisher Josh Smith talks about his career right now (01:35), his long-time job at Bethel University (TN) (06:50), Tennessee's abundance of pecan trees (15:00), working at Tennessee-Martin and the grad school mentality on jobs (22:00), growing up in Kentucky (among many other places) (27:30), his love of Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, and skateboarding (32:30), going to the University of Kentucky for undergrad (41:10), his four years of teaching high school band near Louisville (55:26), doing a master's (and an adjunct teaching year) at James Madison University (VA) (01:01:00), finishing up the doctorate at North Texas (01:11:00), and tolerates the Random-Ass Questions (01:29:40).

Finishing with a Rave on "Harry Potter: Live in Concert" (01:35:15).

Links:

Josh's homepage

Ox and Lamb Percussion Publications

Tony Delk

Steve Reich

Johanna Beyer

Ivan Trevino

James Campbell

Bill Rice

In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly

Carmine Appice

"Wipe Out" - Surfaris

Led Zeppelin IV

"Shout at the Devil" - Motley Crue

BMG Music

J. Geils Band

Van Halen 1984

Metallica ...And Justice for All

"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" - Primus

Guns N' Roses

Cavaliers DCI

Glenn Kotche

John Philip Sousa

Dan Moore

Frank Kumor

Marcus Reddick

Michael Gould

Josh Dekaney

"Caritas" - Michael Burritt

5 Cirandas Brasileiras - Ney Rosauro

"Bongo-0" - Roberto Sierra

Kenyon Williams

Brandon Arvay

Marlon Foster

Cort McClaren

"Recital Suite for Djembe" - B. Michael Williams

Concerto No. 2 for Marimba - Ney Rosauro

"Homage to Max" - Rande Sanderbeck

"Astral Dance" - Gordon Stout

"Variations on Japanese Children's Songs" - Keiko Abe

UNT Percussion Faculty

Eugene Corporon

Dennis Fisher

"Piacer d'amore" - Keiko Abe

"Shadow Chasers" - Michael Burritt

"Mourning Dove Sonnet" - Christopher Deane

"Rhythmic Gradation" - T. Ichiyanagi

"Bodhran Dance" - B. Michael Williams

"Third Construction" - John Cage

1996 Kentucky Championship

"Thriller" - Michael Jackson

Looper trailer

Side Hustle School podcast

Don't Quit Your Day Job podcast

Raves:

Harry Potter in Concert

 

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 77 - Andrea Brown (Part 2)

Andrea Brown (University of Michigan) returns to talk about the reality of being a woman in many facets of the band world (01:20), handling the “being a woman conductor” question (14:15), the influence of social media and the #MeToo movement (22:25), her years working as a clinician in DCI (26:30), and time for some Random-Ass Questions (39:50).

Finishing with a rave on Antonio Sanchez and “Birdman Live!” (53:20).

Links:

Andrea Brown, Part 1

Natalie Portman at the Golden Globes

#somanywhiteguys

Nola Jones

#metoo

Paul Rennick

Dumb and Dumber trailer

Hidden Figures trailer

The Post trailer

Carlos Simon

Raves:

Antonio Sanchez - Birdman Live

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 76 - Andrea Brown (Part 1)

University of Michigan Assistant Band Director Andrea Brown talks about getting the job at Michigan (01:50), her conducting research project “Maestra” (09:00), heading to UNCG for her doctorate after teaching at Austin Peay University (TN) (20:35), growing up in western TN (25:10), her years in Drum Corps (36:50), going to Austin Peay for undergrad (42:30) and studying at Brevard Summer Music Camp, eventually heading to UNCG for Master’s in Horn Performance and Music Education (56:20).

Finishing with a Rave on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “We Were Eight Years in Power” (01:18:30)

Links:

Andrea Brown's Michigan page

Michael Haithcock

John Locke

Kevin Geraldi

John Pasquale

Scott Boerma

Michigan's 2013 Final Four run

SmartMusic

Cadets

Madison Scouts

Nadia Boulanger

Raves:

We Were Eight Years in Power

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 75 - Ed Hartman

Seattle-based percussionist, composer and former owner of the Drum Exchange Ed Hartman talks about his career right now (01:35), changes for YouTube channels (04:35), 25 years of owning the Drum Exchange (19:00), film scoring and finding your tribes (32:20), thoughts about college (53:50), growing up in Illinois (58:40), going to Indiana University in undergrad and studying with Richard Johnson (01:10:35), and answering some Random-Ass Questions (01:34:50).

Finishing with a Rave on Eva Cassidy’s version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (01:54:05).

Links:

Ed Hartman's website

The Drum Exchange

Ed Hartman's YouTube page

Max Headroom

iMovie

Final Cut

Logic

Creative Commons

Public Domain

Teddy Hall, Jr.

Richard Johnson

Antonio Sanchez

John Williams

Alan Hovhaness

World Rhythm Festival

Hummie Mann

Seattle Composers Alliance

Randy Hogancamp

Georg Solti

Frank's Drum Shop

 

George Gaber

Kenny Aronoff

Peter Erskine

Berlioz's Requiem

Terry Bozzio

The Third Man trailer

2001 trailer

Bernard Herrmann

Koyaanisqatsi trailer

Vladimir Horowitz

Colin Walcott

Corky Siegel

Raves:

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - Eva Cassidy

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 74 - Josh Armstrong (2018)

Delta State University Percussion Professor Josh Armstrong returns to find something to talk about (01:35) before getting to his new life as a father (03:30), the renovations to Delta State’s music building (11:00), Mississippi winning the PAS Chapter Award (22:20), Texas Tech Basketball (28:05), other new projects (32:50) and he finally gets subjected some Random-Ass Questions (37:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2017 movie “Lucky” (55:15).

Links:

Josh Armstrong's Episode 10 Appearance

Josh Armstrong's Marimba One page

The Great British Bake Off

Shameless (TV Show)

Casino trailer

Jason Baker

Ionisation - Edgard Varese

Mahler Hammer

Brian Zator

John Wooton

Tom Burritt

Keith Carlock

"Left of the Dial" - Steven Snowden

Empire Records trailer

Dazed and Confused trailer

Shamwow

The Blair Witch Project trailer

Clerks 2 trailer

"Raspberry Beret" - Prince

"Your Song" - Elton John

Raves:

Lucky trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 73 - Amy Smith

Young Women’s Leadership Academy Music Teacher and Percussionist Amy Smith joins the show to talk about teaching and living in El Paso, TX (02:00), her experiences learning Music Therapy (14:30), her career with The Caixa Trio and their experiences being women in the percussion world (21:45), growing up all over the USA and Canada (36:15), going to Penn State to study with Dan Armstrong for undergrad (52:25), briefly studying with Cort McClaren before doing her master’s at UC-Boulder with Doug Walter (58:25), post-grad work and traveling to Ghana (01:03:20), teaching high school in TN and IN (01:11:40), and quickly making her way through the Random-Ass Questions (01:25:25).

Finishing with a brief snippet from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail (01:32:05).

Links:

Amy Smith's Evans page

Caixa Trio

Andy Smith

Gabby Giffords doing Music Therapy

Cayenna Ponchione

Janis Potter

She-e Wu

Joe Paterno

Dan Armstrong

Thom Hasenpflug

Brett Jones

Cort McClaren

Doug Rosener

Doug Walter

Michael Burritt

Danny Frye

Laura Franklin

Pascal Younge

Bernard Woma

"Billie Jean" - Michael Jackson

Lean In - Sheryl Sandburg

Rave:

Letter From a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 72 - Teddy Hall, Jr.

Alabama State University Percussion Professor Teddy Hall, Jr. discusses how he got the ASU job and his career path to getting there (02:00), his research on Richard Johnson, Indiana University’s first Percussion Professor (25:55), growing up in Birmingham, AL and taking some important trips to the Northeast United States (46:25), the 2017 Alabama Senate Race (01:00:55), his varied undergrad career (01:06:20), doing his master’s at Ole Miss with Ricky Burkhead (01:31:30), and taking time to do some Random-Ass Questions (01:42:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the classic film “Two For the Road” (01:57:25).

Links:

Teddy Hall, Jr.'s Pearl Drums Page

Teddy Hall, Jr. at Alabama State

Ricky Burkhead

Lamon Lawhorn

Sean Daniels

Honda Battle of the Bands

Johnny Lee Lane

James Latimer

Shaylor James

George Gaber

Richard Davis Johnson

John Tafoya

David Baker

Warren Duncan

"Birdland" - Weather Report

Eric Hollenbeck

The Marimba Festival Orchestra

"Come Sunday" - Duke Ellington

"Fiesta Latina" - Lalo Davila

"Three Brothers" - Michael Colgrass

"Mirror From Another" - David Friedman

Larry Mathis

Jonathan Haas

"Classic African" - Joseph Aiello

"Variations on the Westminster Clock Theme" - James Latimer

Larry Jones

John Wooton

Zoro

Darkest Hour trailer

Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer

Hannibal trailer

"I Would Die For You" - Prince

"Baby I'm A Star" - Prince

John Blackwell, Jr.

Sheila E.

Magic City Classic

Turkey Day Classic

Raves:

Two For the Road trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 71 - Best of 2017!

CLIP SHOW!  CLIP SHOW!  This year's "Best of" features the new segment, "Random-Ass Questions".  With answers to "Has anyone ever nailed an impression of you?" (02:30), "What's your biggest kitchen mess-up?" (09:15), "What's your highest/lowest sports moment?" (15:35), "What's the most impractical item of clothing you own?" (24:40), "What's your best non-monetizeable skill?" (27:05), "Where would you like to travel to?" (34:50), "What's a great movie and what's a terrible movie?" (41:40), "What's your favorite Michael Jackson song?" (54:30), "What's either your most embarrassing, funniest or strangest performance moment involving you?" (01:03:05), and "What one piece of art has impacted you the most recently?" (01:24:45).

Following with one of Pete's favorite Raves, on Tower of Power (01:45:10).