This book is based on performances and transcriptions from the critically acclaimed DCI Music Videos Herlin Riler: Ragtime And Beyond and Johnny Vidacovich: Street Beats ModernApplications.Additional interviews and essays on: Baby Dodds Vernel Fournier Ed Blackwell James Black and Freddie Kohlman Smokey Johnson David Lee and bassist Bill Huntington.CD featuresdrumming examples and 14 songs with: Nicholas Payton (trumpet) Tony Dagradi (tenor saxophone) David Torkanowsky (piano) Betty Ann Lastie Williams (piano vocals) and Chris Severen and James Singleton (bass). Also included:Up from Congo Square New Orleans Lineage poster charting ten decades of New Orleans most influencial and important drummers.