Author Archives: Bryan Bowman

Sheldon Brown Group at Yoshis Lounge in San Francisco

I wanted to say that I’m very excited to be part of this performance on January 6th with the Sheldon Brown Group! The music is really cool and very challenging and this is a rather rare occasion where Sheldon gets to perform his own compositions. Nothing like getting your ass kicked so thoroughly you actually [...]
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Syncopation Studies

This is my first drumming post. As an introduction to this forum, I would like to share some of my thoughts on how we can develop a more melodic sensibility while also improving our technical ability on the drum set. A strong command of the rudiments is essential to being able to play musically. This [...]
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Great weekend of music!

On Friday night I played to a packed room with the Ben Stolorow Quartet at the Square One Yoga Studio. Stoli Rose played first featuring Steph Stolorow on vocals and Ben Storolow on Keyboard. Steph writes incredible songs and has a fantastic voice! Ben provides the perfect accompaniment and I’m hoping they will record sometime [...]
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Steph Stolorow

On the 18th of September I’ll be playing a special show with Steph Stolorow on vocals and her brother Ben Stolorow on Keyboard. This should be a really fun night of music. Ben and Steph have some nice originals that they’ll be playing in the first set and then the quartet will play originals and [...]
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Another Session

I did an informal recording session today with Ravi Abcarian, Ben Stolorow and Don Beck. We got several good takes of three originals. One composition was by myself, one by Ben and one by Ravi. It’s always revealing to have tape rolling as you find yourself in the midst of a novel being written. One [...]
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