He finally rooms with Clemens, a fellow Hunsrücker who plays jazz drums in Munich's clubs.

The calls of the croupiers and the slaps of dealt cards were as softly yet fatefully staccato as the rustle and beat of the jazz drums.

What a lot of jazz drummers play sounds like jazz drums, which is amazing.

Gelispie is the instructor of jazz drums at the Michigan State University College of Music.

Their neighbor in the subspace, Swedish-native Bjorkbom, had recently given up experimenting hooking up machines to make trance music, and decided to go full tilt back into playing jazz drums.

But as a child, the son of a jazz band leader, he went down another route, playing jazz drums for a while before becoming a student of a Liverpool pianist, Douglas Miller.

He studied jazz drums at the University of Music in Nuremberg from 1998 to 2003.

I know how to tie my shoes and am learning how to play jazz drums.

"Mel Lewis has been an innovator who has redefined the role of jazz drums," said Loren Schoenberg, the manager of the American Jazz Orchestra.

(Mark Helias plays bass, and the Congolese musician Emile Biayenda plays jazz drums in an original, light-gauge pitter-patter.)