About The Author

My name is Vinnie Sperrazza. I’m a drummer, teacher, and composer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. I started this Substack in November 2022.

About Chronicles

Chronicles is mostly informative essays about jazz and jazz drummers, with some excursions spotlighting colleagues and past masters outside jazz. There’s also updates on my musical activities— performances, tours, new recordings— and occasional personal or speculative essays, all centered around music.

  • I’ve used an editor once (was a great help), and I’ll share drafts with friends and take their advice, but I’ll never write a sentence with AI assistance. You are reading a human being’s words, and that human is me.

  • I decide what to write about, and when I’m going to write it. There’s no one pulling the strings.

  • I’m a music-lover and musician. Chronicles is a labor of love.

  • Music is something that humans do. Like all human activities, it is encoded with human experience— memory, emotion, and ideas. I will always respect the human life inside the music, the life without which there would be no music.

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Brooklyn-based jazz drummer, composer, bandleader, teacher, writer.