I have been a fan of drummer Donald Edwards for quite a while, and I’m thrilled that I’ll get to play some of his music with him for Resonant Motion’s upcoming Jazz Up Close event on September 14. While he is rightly known as one of the most grooving and versatile drummers on the jazz…

As a teenager in the fall of 1991, I started visiting the Hartt School of Music (and eventually the Artists’ Collective) to play sessions with my new friend Jimmy Greene, and there were two young Jackie McLean disciples about whom folks there spoke with particular reverence: saxophonist Abraham Burton and drummer Eric McPherson (a.k.a. “E-Mac”)….