Welcome to BillyWard.com!If this is your first time here, or you're here for the thousandth time this week-welcome! We have a strong, thriving community, of which everyone has ownership and importance. This is not a Billy Ward fan-site, though we are fans. This is not a commercial area, though business does occur here. This is a place where friends are made, life is lived, and music is enjoyed. Please look around, jump in the pool, and make yourself at home. This is a good place to be. Stalking the Stalkers
In Tune with the ProsDRUMscene Magazine talks with Evans Brand Manager, Mike Robinson, and 10 of Evans' top performing artists about their tuning and head choices. One of those folks just happens to be the affable Billy Ward. Grab the entire article right here. (it's a 2.64MB Adobe PDF file -- get the reader, if you need it.). Used with permission. Interviews from the 2008 Modern Drummer FestivalBilly spent some time with some of today's top drummers, asking them about their inspiration. Check it out! You can read the full article (reprinted courtesy of MD), and download some audio interview bits.
Billy Ward Trio Rehearsal Tapes & Live Videos
The day was September 17, 2008. The location was a modest lakeside home in up-state New York. Three men. Two microphones. Eight songs. Forty Six minutes of aural bliss. Then only the day later, at an intimate club in Manhattan, two brilliant videographers captured the elusive jazz monster on film. The premise is simple. It is up to YOU to set the price for this footage. it costs money to produce this stuff, so we hope you are willing and able to help out with the costs. You won’t hear music played well in this world if the musicians cannot afford to play it, or record it, or videotape it. Pay for and download the CD-quality audio here. Please be sure to check out Hudson Music, for their video release of the '08 Modern Drummer Festival, scheduled to come out in March 2009. Catch a sneak peek here! Now Available: Voices in My Head
Buy it here!Voices in My Head is the jazzy instructional video, and it comes packaged with the Billy Ward Trio CD Out the Door. Just to get you going, watch the trailer here (beware though, at nearly 8 minutes long, it's a 60MB file--and worth every bit of it!) Chart Tawk videos are here! Watch Billy and guitarist Barry Coates discuss the notation for the various tracks from the album/DVD. You can also download the drumless playalongs and the charts here. Out the Door, the Billy Ward Trio
"This is the coolest music I have heard in a very long time. I think it's the hippest Jazz I've heard in a long time. Your playing is very different from what I am used to hearing from you and I really like it. It sounds great too, and it definitely has a great "live" vibe. love the compositions, very cool and slick in a slightly "leftfield" kinda way. Great stuff!" - Thomas Lang Buy it for your own collection at Billy's Store. Or, you can purchase and download tracks individually from our friends at DigStation.
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