Drums and "Groove" -by Mat Marucci

Copyright 2004, Mat Marucci

Mat Marucci Mat Marucci is an active performer, author, educator, and clinician listed in Who’s Who In America and International Who’s Who In Music. His performing credits include, among others, jazz greats Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Eddie Harris, Buddy De Franco, Les McCann, Pharoah Sanders, and John Tchicai. He also has seven critically acclaimed recordings to his credit as a leader and others as a sideman, including those with John Tchicai and Jimmy Smith, with many of them garnering four stars (****) in various trade magazines including Jazz Times, Jazziz, and Downbeat.

Mat is the author of several books on drumming for both Lewis Music and Mel Bay Publications, is an Adjunct Professor for American River College (Sacramento, CA) and an endorser for Mapex drums, Zildjian cymbals, Pro-Mark drumsticks and Remo drumheads. He has also written numerous articles on drumming for Modern Drummer magazine, Downbeat magazine, the Percussive Arts Society’s Percussive Notes and Percussion News and Pro-Mark’s Upstrokes.

Samples of Mat’s playing can be heard at: www.cdbaby.com and a complete resume can be found at: http://www.matmarucci.com

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