In this episode, Ulysses talks about:
- Relocating back to his homestate of Florida after 20 years in New York
- How he moved from his gospel roots to jazz as a teenager, and the commonalities and differences between the two
- His Drumeo video playing Nirvana’s “In Bloom”
- His jazz drumming video on Drumeo unpacking the nuts and bolts of jazz drumming
- The various misrepresentations of jazz drumming
- His philosophy for learning jazz drumming, and why he believes it’s best to start at the beginning of its history and move forward in time
- The most essential skill in jazz drumming – “making the ride cymbal dance”
- Subtlety and stealth in big band drumming
- Representation in drum media
