Bubba Bash 2026 will take place at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA, on Saturday, January 10, 2025. Joe will join his friends YYNot, Jason Bittner, Ed Toth, Seven Antonopolous, Jonathan Dinklage, and many other great musicians to play Rush music and raise money for Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Neil Peart’s name. Join us! […]
On Sunday, September 21, 2025, Hudson Music hosted a Tribute to Dom Famularo at the Cutting Room in New York City. Hosted by Joe Bergamini, the event featured an all-star band with performances by Mike Sorrentino, Sergio Bellotti & Teri Cote, Bobby Rondinelli, Sherrie Maricle, Rick Latham, Bobby Sanabria, Will Calhoun, and Bernard Purdie. Guest […]
Joe Bergamini and Hudson Music is honored to announce the release of COBHAM: The Music and Drumming of Billy Cobham, the authorized musical biography covering the life and work of this jazz, fusion, and drumming legend. The beautifully designed 168-page book includes biography, musical notation, discography, and photos. When he burst onto the international stage […]
There are now over 600 charts available at www.joebergamini.com/charts. The “road map” charts are “Working Drummer Charts” with form and detailed parts. The “transcriptions” are note-for-note drum parts (many taken from my best-selling books Drum Techniques of Led Zeppelin and MD Classic Tracks. Free samples are available in the store.
Joe will present a clinic at the Delaware Drum Show on Sunday Feb 25 2024. Also performing are Bernard Purdie and Keith Carlock. The Delaware Drum Show is a great day-long meeting of drummers to check out gear, make new friends, and learn from the clinicians. Come down and enjoy the day! Joe would like […]
Hudson Music and Joe Bergamini have proudly announced the release of GADD: A Life in Time, the definitive musical biography, analysis and retrospective of drumming legend Steve Gadd. The 238-page hardcover book, packaged with 82-page spiral-bound notation supplement and extensive bonus video content is available exclusively through the Hudson Music website here: https://hudsonmusic.com/product/gadd-a-life-in-time/ With a […]
I’m proud to announce the launch of workingdrummercharts.com. The idea behind these is to provide one-page, accurate gig charts for the working drummer. They are not transcriptions (although some of those are available in the store as well). After the release of my book of the same name, I saw that drummers found these charts […]
Joe appears on the two newest recordings from The Doo Wop Project, a studio album entitled Old School New Generation, and a live album from the group’s PBS special called The Doo Wop Project: A Live Concert Event. Both are available on Amazon in CD format and through all major streaming services. Looks for Joe […]
Joe is thrilled to announce the release of his latest book, Stewart Copeland: Drumming in The Police and Beyond. You can order it here at the link on this page. If you would like a copy signed by Joe, include a note with your order or send us an email through the site. One of […]
Joe had the pleasure of performing at PASIC 2021 in Indianapolis. PASIC is the world’s most prestigious drum festival and a gathering of percussion professionals from every area of music: drumset, marching, classicial, World, educators, students and more. Joe presented “Fine Tuning Your Teaching Practice” and was including alongside some of the leading drummers in […]