Shaping Your Journey- Aldo Mazza & Guests

Shaping Your Journey with Rich Holly

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Rich Holly talks about his journey from his beginnings as a young percussion student in University, to performing with a number of well known artists such as Dave Samuels. His journey led him to becoming the Dean at Northern Illinois University and then moving on to holding the position of Executive Director of Arts at North Carolina State University and serving as past president of the Percussive Arts Society.

Shaping Your Journey with Rick Van Horn

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Rick Van Horn recounts his journey as a working drummer on the West Coast to becoming for many years the editor-in-chief of Modern Drummer Magazine - the world's best known drum magazine. Since leaving Modern Drummer, he went on to become the drummer for the Classic American band, Jay and the Americans.

Shaping Your Journey with Dave Black

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest, award-winning author, composer, and arranger Dave Black ,talks about his early days of drumming, connecting with the legendary Louie Bellson, his performing career and then honing his craft to become the driving force at Alfred Music for drum and percussion publications.

Shaping Your Journey with Dennis Chambers

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, Dennis Chambers speaks about his journey growing up in a musical environment in Baltimore. As a very young child he played professionally and gradually developed his own style in jazz- fusion and funk drumming. He has performed and recorded with many international artists from Parliament/Funkadelic, John Scofield to Santana to name but a few.

Shaping Your Journey with Mike Clark

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my guest Mike Clark talks about his beginnings in the San Francisco jazz scene at a very young age. His musical journey then takes him to recording with the legendary Herbie Hancock and many other world renown artists allowing Clark to develop his signature mix of jazz and linear musical drumming concepts.

Shaping Your Journey Part 2 with Bobby Sanabria

This is Part 2 of my fascinating conversation with my invited guest Bobby Sanabria who recounts his personal journey from his humble beginnings in the Bronx, to studying at the prestigious Berklee College and then becoming a grammy award winner and sought after educator.

Shaping Your Journey with Bobby Sanabria PART 1

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my invited guest Bobby Sanabria, recounts his personal journey from his humble beginnings in the Bronx, to studying at the prestigious Berklee College and then becoming a Grammy Award winner and sought after educator.

Shaping Your Journey with Antonio Sanchez

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my invited guest Antonio Sanchez talks about his journey from growing up as a young drummer in Mexico, to then going to study in Boston and then being invited to join the Pat Metheny band and other great music legends. He moved on to being a film composer and continues to build his solo career.

Shaping Your Journey with my special guest Dr. Jolán Kovács

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest is very special indeed to my own personal journey as she is not only my wife and my soul mate in life and the mother of my three children, but also my business partner who joined me on my musical and business journey co-founding KoSA Music. She is a talented pianist, violinist and a Ph.D in Music Education Research and she holds a position at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Shaping Your Journey with special guest Mike Mainieri

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Mike Mainieri talks about growing up in musical family in New York and then playing professionally the vibraphone at a very early age. He went on to play with Buddy Rich and other great artists. He quickly became one of New York's top session musicians, a sought-after orchestrator and producer in the studio and he played and recorded with many jazz and pop greats including artists such as Paul McCartney.