Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
There are only two types of music.good and bad.
As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.