Freelance Percussionist, Producer, Teacher, and Podcaster Damon Grant stops by to talk about recording projects, making a history of percussion focusing on the African and Latin American roots, and private teaching (06:00), hosting the Discussions in Percussion Podcast (36:00), and growing up in CT, encountering a diverse array of music at an early age, and his years in drum corps (56:00)

Finishing with a Rave on the 1982 Documentary Say Amen, Somebody (01:32:00).

Links:

Damon Grant’s website

Discussions in Percussion podcast

Stuck at Home Records

Game of Thrones

The Loop Loft

Candido Camero

Latin Music U.S.A.

Calle 54

Residente

Paulo Stagnaro

Marcos Torres

Marcos Lopez

Camilo Molina

Weedie Brahmah

The Revenant trailer

Justin Paul

Be an Arts Hero

Musical Instrument Museum

National Museum of African American Music

Brian Zator on PPP

Sterloid Talks! podcast

Giovanni Hidalgo

Horacio Hernandez

Johnny “Dandy” Rodriguez

Michael Jackson’s Thriller

Prince’s Purple Rain

Thelonious Monk

Ed Choi on Discussions in Percussion

Marc Quiñones on Discussions in Percussion

Clive Davis

Herbie Hancock

On Fire - Michel Camilo

Light as a Feather - Chick Corea

Operation Ivy

Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crüe

Hawthorne Caballeros

Boston Crusaders

Cadets of Bergen County

Jay Bocook

Tom Aungst

Thom Hannum

Johan de Meij

Jamie Eckert

Vic Firth

Raves:

Say Amen, Somebody trailer

The Daft Punk article:

Vox Magazine on Daft Punk

Drumline Arranger, Composer, Adjudicator, and Marching Mizzou Drumline Instructor Clif Walker stops by to talk about his collage of teaching responsibilities (03:00), his years teaching at Blue Springs High School (MO), leaving full-time teaching, and working for Mizzou (09:30), growing up in the Kansas City area and his beginnings in drum set and marching percussion (39:50), his undergrad years at Missouri Western State University (48:00), going to the University of Central Florida for his master’s degree, taking the best of Dennis Rogers and Jeff Moore’s teaching styles, and “accidentally” becoming a band director (01:00:15), and then settles in for the Random Ass Questions (01:25:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 Documentary on the life of Marian Anderson, American Experience – Voice of Freedom (01:47:45).

Links:

Clif Walker’s Mizzou page

“Treehouses” - Clif Walker

Tim Allshouse

Michael James

Tim Hinton

Amy Knopps

Julie Davila

Lalo Davila

“Hot for Teacher” - Van Halen

Kareem’s sky hook wins Magic Johnson’s first game in NBA, 1979

Dennis Rogers

Rogers Foundation of Music

“Stained Glass” - David Gillingham

“Paschal Dances” - David Gillingham

“Gate to Heaven” - David Gillingham

Campus Crusade for Christ

Jeff Moore

Thad Anderson

Kirk Gay

Omar Carmenates on PPP

Michael Bump

Lee Hansen

Steven Davis

Michael Robinson

Nacho Libre trailer

Elf trailer

Jungle 2 Jungle trailer

Atomic Habits - James Clear

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Frank White

1985 Kansas City Royals Highlights

Chiefs win Super Bowl 54

“Shadowchasers” - Michael Burritt

Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber

Raves:

American Experience: Voice of Freedom

Percussionist, Composer, Arts Manager, Professor, and Podcaster Jamie Whitmarsh stops by to talk about all of his arts responsibilities (03:15), his DMA work at the University of Oklahoma and the Great Plains Percussion Group (29:45), the Abberdazmin podcast (50:30), growing up all over Oklahoma and his beginnings in percussion (01:01:00), his undergrad years at Oklahoma City University (01:12:30), his master’s years at Florida State (01:23:30), and takes us through the Random Ass Questions (01:36:25).

Finishing with a Rave on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (02:04:00).

Links:

Jamie Whitmarsh’s homepage

Luis Rivera

Lisa Kachouee

Ed Knight

Keith Hendricks

Oklahoma Modern Music Collective

Great Plains Percussion Group

“Stained Glass” - David Gillingham

“Crown of Thorns” - David Maslanka

A103 Marching

John W. Parks IV on PPP

Matt Jordan

What is Noise

Tallahassee Composers Orchestra

Sarah Neely

Great Plains Marimba Competition

“2+1” - Ivan Trevino

“Gumboots” - David Bruce

“And Legions Will Rise” - Kevin Puts

“Ad Astra” - Von Hansen

Patrick Womack

Tommy Dobbs

Jeremy Parr

Ryan Robinson on PPP

“Sculpture in Wood” - Rüdiger Pawassar

Gordon Hicken

Composers Across Borders

David Steffens

Techniques of 20th Century Composition - Leon Dallin

Computer Composer’s Toolbox - Phil Winsor

Musical Composition: Craft and Art - Alan Belkin

How to Write for Percussion - Sam Solomon

Abberdazmin podcast

“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” - Iron Butterfly

“Californication” - RHCP

Animorphs book series

Dune franchise

“Drum Corps on Parade” - John Pratt

Ben Finley

JC Combs

Lance Drege

“The Doomsday Machine” - Michael Burritt

“Spanesque Oscillations” - Steve Riley

“Variations on Lost Love” - David Maslanka

“My Lady White” - David Maslanka

“Hohner” - David Maslanka

“Arcadia II” - David Maslanka

John O’Reilly

Mark Wingate

Ladislav Kubík

Ben Fraley

The Truman Show trailer

The Goonies trailer

Jurassic Park trailer

Scream trailer

The Room trailer

Clerks trailer

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 trailer

Avengers: Infinity War trailer

Batman Begins trailer

Hannibal Rising trailer

Brüno trailer

Symphony No. 1 - John Corigliano

Arrested Development trailer

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer

Raves:

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Percussionist, Educator, and Researcher Heather Sloan stops by to talk about her current work in Digital Arts and Ethnographic Storytelling at Indiana University (02:45), being elected to the Percussive Arts Society’s Board of Advisors and her work in helping develop PAS’s Diversity Alliance (24:50), growing up in California and her early experiences in music (34:50), getting her undergrad and master’s degrees at UC-Santa Cruz and her research on John Cage’s Constructions (47:35), playing in bands in Santa Cruz, getting her DMA at SUNY-Stonybrook, and some mutual discussion of Long Island (59:45), getting the Fulbright scholarship to study (and also enjoy the food) in the Dominican Republic (01:16:00), and the Random Ass Questions segment on the gendered nature of percussion, old movies, gymnastics, and the visual artist Stuart Davis (01:23:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the film In & Of Itself (01:47:00).

Links:

Heather Sloan being honored at PAS

Geospatial Intelligence

IU’s Institute of Digital Arts and Humanities

StoryMaps

Humanitarian Mapping

Raymond Des Roches

Cal Trader

Fulbright Scholarship

Merengue - Paul Austerlitz

Julie Hill on PPP

Joshua Simonds on PPP

Elizabeth DeLamater on PPP

Rebecca McDaniel on PPP

Jillian Baxter on PPP

Lamon Lawhorn on PPP

Teddy Hall, Jr. on PPP

Steven Schick

Lou Harrison

John Cage

Mr. Bungle

Mike Patton

John Zorn

Quechua

Sonic Youth

William Winant

Perry Goldstein

Gilbert Kalish

Martin Denny

True/False Film Festival

Square Peg Round Hole

Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer

Do the Right Thing trailer

The Blob trailer

The Great Escape trailer

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

William Faulkner

Tennessee Williams

Ibram X. Kendi

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New Yorker

Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics

Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics

Simone Biles at the 2016 Olympics

Stuart Davis artwork

Raves:

In & Of Itself trailer

Alissa Castro-Evans returns to talk about Columbus State (GA) and being a voice major for a bit (02:50), the challenges of teaching Elementary Education in rural Georgia prior to her Master’s (15:15), her grad school years at USC with Scott Herring (33:00), and the Random Ass Questions segment, featuring discussions on women in percussion, her love of gymnastics and figure skating, and a discussion of the talents of Chris Thile.

The Raves this week are an Appreciation for the lives of Cicely Tyson and Dennis AsKew (01:05:25).

Links:

Part 1 with Alissa Castro-Evans

Alissa Castro-Evans bio

Paul Vaillancourt

Capriccio Espagnol - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky

Percussion Concerto - Jennifer Higdon

Scott Herring

Janna Graham

10,000 BC trailer

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon trailer

Untamed - Glennon Doyle

1996 Olympic USA Gymnastics

Simone Biles

Tara Lipinski

Michelle Kwan

Yo Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan Tiny Desk 2020

Punch Brothers Tiny Desk

Nickel Creek Tiny Desk

“Live From Here”

“Mallet Quartet” - Steve Reich

Raves:

Cicely Tyson

Dennis AsKew

Benedict College (SC) Adjunct Percussion Instructor and Columbia, SC-based percussion teacher Alissa Castro-Evans stops by to talk about her teaching responsibilities and teaching at an HBCU (02:00), getting her career started in Columbia, SC (25:10), how she came to the PAS Health and Wellness Committee and being an advocate of your own personal health (30:40), and growing up in GA and FL with a percussionist father and clarinetist mother, and getting into percussion playing (01:05:25).

Finishing with a Rave on the Trevor Noah’s memoir Born a Crime (01:28:45).

Links:

Alissa Castro-Evans’ Music Arts page

Joe W. Moore III on PPP

Health and Wellness at PAS

Brad Meyer on PPP

Rebecca Kite on PPP

Omar Carmenates on PPP

Oliver Molina on PPP

Beth Gottlieb

Raves:

Born a Crime - Trevor Noah

Current Eastman (NY) DMA Doctoral Student and recent colleague Connor Stevens stops by to talk about teaching at Mizzou, working towards finishing his DMA, Charles Wuorinen, and studying for the doctoral exams (03:40), working in marching programs in GA prior to his doctorate (24:30), growing up in NY and GA, his family connections to percussion, and his enjoyment of DCI (51:00), his undergrad years at FSU, Parks and Burritt, and getting into running in FL (01:03:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions (01:22:50).

Finishing with a Rave on the documentary film King in the Wilderness (01:51:30).

Links:

Connor Stevens’s Hochstein page

Megan Arns on the podcast

Portraits in Rhythm - Anthony Cirone

“Marimba Variations” - Charles Wuorinen

“Janissary Music” - Charles Wuorinen

Percussion Symphony - Charles Wuorinen

Percussion Quartet - Charles Wuorinen

Michael Burritt

The Book of Keyboards - Philippe Manoury

Brant Blackard

Green Box Media

“Spero” - Michael Burritt

Musica Nova

History of Western Music - Grout

John W. Parks IV

Switch~Ensemble

Julia Gaines

“Doll’s House Story” - István Márta

Melinda Leoce

Alexander Jiménez

Symphony No. 10, movement 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich

First Suite in E-flat - Gustav Holst

Ringo Starr

John Bonham

Cadets 2005 show

Phantom Regiment 2006 show

Buster Bailey

Saul Goodman

Josh Jones

Keith Aleo

Ionization - Edgard Varese

Scott Stevens

Christopher Lamb

Tim Church

Bluecoats

Cavaliers

Spirit of Atlanta

James Campbell

“Peaux” - Iannis Xenakis

La La Land trailer

Umbrellas of Cherbourg trailer

Moonlight trailer

The Shining trailer

El Topo trailer

Inland Empire trailer

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me trailer

Eraserhead trailer

Blue Velvet trailer

“I Want to Tell You” - Beatles

“The Ocean” - Led Zeppelin

David Hardman

My Struggle - Karl One Knausgaard

Where The Heart Beats - Kay Larson

Raves:

King in the Wilderness trailer

Tennessee State University Percussion Professor Derrick Greene stops by to talk about teaching and gigging while also finishing his doctorate at the University of Memphis (02:45), his marching band and drumline duties and his involvement in the PASIC 2020 presentation on HBCU Drumming Styles (21:30), growing up in Chattanooga and the influence of church on his musical development (33:35), his undergrad years at Tennessee State (45:35), his grad school time at Memphis and the challenges of recruiting (01:03:30), and the Random Ass Questions portion, including a segment on the importance of African American representation in composition, education and performance (01:19:00).

Closing with a Rave on the 1993 film Addams Family Values (01:45:15).

Links:

Derrick Greene’s TSU page

Sean Daniels

Lamon Lawhorn

Elisha Powell

Magic City Classic

Southern Heritage Classic

NCPP

Bill Shaltis

Mathias Elmer

“Phylogenesis” - Russell Wharton

“Chatterbox” - Chad Floyd

“War Drum Peace Drum” - David Reeves

“Side By Side” - Michio Kitazume

“Being Black” - Joe W. Moore III

“Smile” - Charlie Chaplin

“Pure Imagination” - Bricusse/Newley

“Big Hair Air Guitar” - Casey Cangelosi

“Bad and Boujee” - Migos

Ivan Trevino

Friday trailer

Drumline trailer

How High trailer

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme son

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson

Holes - Louis Sachar

The Music Lesson - Victor Wooten

The Prophet Ezekiel

Raves:

Addams Family Values trailer

Tony Lymon returns!  Tony’s Random Ass Question segment sees him discussing problems in music education (03:45), race in percussion and music, “outperforming your blackness”, politics and social media (08:00), great and terrible movies, and NOT having a sports fandom (37:15), and his love of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings (50:40).

Finishing with a Rave on the accomplishments of Stacy Abrams (56:00).

Links:

Part 1 with Tony Lymon

Tony Lymon’s Pacific Crest page

George Floyd Protests

Marshall McLuhan

“Think Globally, Act Locally”

Jonathan Swift

Sling Blade trailer

John Ritter

Billy Bob Thornton

Jurassic Park trailer

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Star Wars

Stephen A. Smith

King Konga in 1998

Star of Indiana 1993

Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber

Platoon and Adagio for Strings

Raves:

Stacy Abrams

Petal (MS) based Marching Arts Designer and Educator Tony Lymon stops by to talk about his PASIC 2020 panel on Electronics and the Marching Arts (05:45), his current career activities, getting his first orchestral pit gig, and making some needed life changes (21:30), the teaching challenges during coronavirus (43:00), growing up near Mississippi Valley State University and his time in the Star of Indiana Drum Corps (52:00), his undergrad time at Southern Mississippi (01:07:00), and touring with the band King Konga and their experiences at Woodstock 1999 (01:15:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2020 Pixar film Soul (01:30:15).

Links:

Tony Lymon’s Pacific Crest page

Tony’s 2020 PASIC Presentation

Ryan Saul

Santa Clara Vanguard

Jim Casella

Eminence Drumline

Brett Favre

John Wooton

Annie

Man of La Mancha

The Lion King

Hamilton

Sherman Hong

Haskell Harr

John S. Pratt

Ricky Burkhead

Blue Devils 1986 drumline

Star of Indiana 1991

Thom Hannum

George Zingali

Jim Prime

Todd Ryan

Frank Sullivan

Aaron Wells

Colin McNutt

Memphis Blues Band

“Yellow After the Rain” - Mitchell Peters

“Two Mexican Dances” - Gordon Stout

“Africa Hot” - John Wooton

Biloxi Blues trailer

Joan Rivers

Regis Philbin

“Rock N Roll Fantasy” - Bad Company

King Konga Live in 1998

Woodstock 1999

Raves:

Soul trailer