Shaping Your Journey- Aldo Mazza & Guests

Shaping Your Journey with Roy Wooten - Part I

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Roy Wooten - also kown at Futureman, talks abouts his journey growing up in a musical family. He went on to becoming not only a 5-time Grammy award musician, playing with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, but also he became a composer of various genres such as ballet, symphonic works and screenplays. Wooten is also a recognized inventor of electronic instruments such as the Drumitar and the RoyEI.

Shaping Your Journey with Rob Birenbaum

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Rob Birenbaum discusses his path starting off as a salesman and drum teacher at a local Missouri drum shop to creating his own shop, Drum Headquarters of St. Louis, MO, He then went on to HQ Percussion, which famously produced the iconic RealFeel practice pads and Sound Off drum mute pads

Shaping Your Journey with Robert Leroux

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Robert Leroux discusses his career as a percussionist, teacher and administrator performing with many reputable orchestras including the National Arts Centre, the Montreal Symphony, the Grand Ballet Orchestra, and the SMCQ to name but a few. In the latter part of his career, he became the Dean of the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal before continuing his journey in the tech domain.

Shaping Your Journey with Donny McCaslin

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Donny McCaslin discusses his journey from California to studying sax at Berklee, touring with Gary Burton and Steps Ahead, recording David Bowie' s Blackstar album and continuing his solo career.

Shaping Your Journey with Steve Maxwell

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Steve Maxwell recounts his experience as a drummer who then went into the traditional corporate life and then circled back into drumming going on to becoming a major collector of rare drums which led him to opening his own drum shop "Steve Maxwell Vintage and Custom Drums" in New York and Chicago. He has worked with Charlie Watts and many other famous drummers supplying them with their own vintage drums. Besides owning his own shops, he is also the largest dealer since 2005 of the Craviotto drum line.

Shaping Your Journey with John Santos

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest John Santos discusses his path to becoming a highly recognized composer, producer, percussionist and Afro-Latino music educator in addition to being a seven-time GRAMMY nominee.

Shaping Your Journey with Bob Breithaupt

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Bob Breithaupt discusses his illustrious career as a performer, an arts administrator, educator, and an avid entrepreneur-developing the percussion department at Capital University, President of PAS and being an active clinician.

Shaping Your Journey with Rick Latham

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Rick Latham explains how his love for drumming was shaped at the early age of twelve, listening to the powerful rhythm and blues influences of Southern gospel music, R & B and soul music. Today, he is recognized as one of the world's most in demand touring and studio drummers and he is especially known for his many books and DVDs on funk drumming.

Shaping Your Journey with Glen Velez

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest is the legendary frame drum artist Glen Velez. Glen discusses his path to becoming a five-time Grammy winning percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world and how he became to be recognized as the founding father of the modern frame drum movement.

Shaping Your Journey with Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest is the great piano virtuoso Omar Sosa who is joined by his band mate - the Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita in conversation with me. Both of these formidable musicians discuss what led to their magical musical collaboration when they met back in 2012.