TOKYO — At age 21, Eric Kamau Gravatt was McCoy Tyner’s drummer, one of the most coveted jobs a jazz musician could hope to get. After 20 years of working as a prison guard, he’s back behind the kit — ...

Eric Kamau Gravatt’s gravelly bass voice could not be more different than his style of drumming. He prefers lighter, more intricate rhythms played on the upper part of the drum kit — a style that ...

"I'd like like to go out in a blaze of glory. If the drum set catches fire one day while I'm playing, I will have achieved my purpose, Eric Kamau Grávátt says with a hearty laugh from his home in ...

TOKYO — At age 21, Eric Kamau Gravatt was McCoy Tyner’s drummer, one of the most coveted jobs a jazz musician could hope to get. After 20 years of working as a prison guard, he’s back behind the kit — ...

Dean Magraw and Eric Kamau Gravatt have played together on and off over the years, but something clicked when Gravatt filled in on one of Magraw's weekly standing gigs.

At age 21, Eric Kamau Gravatt was McCoy Tyner's drummer, one of the most coveted jobs a jazz musician could hope to get. After 20 years of working as a prison guard, he's back behind the kit — again ...

“I'd like like to go out in a blaze of glory. If the drum set catches fire one day while I'm playing, I will have achieved my purpose, Eric Kamau Grávátt says with a hearty laugh from his home in ...

A recent spate of superb guitar gigs continues with the duo of Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanovic. Thanks to culture and curiosity, these acoustic pickers purvey a versatile swatch of styles. Haque's ...

As the McCoy Tyner Trio, Tyner and his sidemen, Charnett Moffett on bass and Eric Kamau Gravatt on drums, the band performed an 80-minute set - replete with two encores including one after the ...