EditorialDrummer Reno Kane during Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps practice at Daphne High School, in Daphne, Ala., June 29, 2023. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialDrummer Reno Kane during Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps practice at Daphne High School, in Daphne, Ala., June 29, 2023. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialDrummer Reno Kane during Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps practice at Daphne High School, in Daphne, Ala., June 29, 2023. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialDrummer Reno Kane during Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps practice at Daphne High School, in Daphne, Ala., June 29, 2023. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialDrummer Reno Kane during Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps practice at Daphne High School, in Daphne, Ala., June 29, 2023. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialDrummer Reno Kane during Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps practice at Daphne High School, in Daphne, Ala., June 29, 2023. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialDrummer Reno Kane during Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps practice at Daphne High School, in Daphne, Ala., June 29, 2023. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialFrancisco Haye, who performs as Cisco Swank, at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where he grew up and still plays music today, April 21, 2023. (Lindsay Perryman/The New York Times)
EditorialFrancisco Haye, who performs as Cisco Swank, at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where he grew up and still plays music today, April 21, 2023. (Lindsay Perryman/The New York Times)
EditorialA drummer with the National Dance Company of Ghana rehearses for the DanceAfrica festival, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on May 19, 2023. (Nate Palmer/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left; the guitarist Nils Lofgren, the drummer Max Weinberg, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt perform at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left; the guitarist Nils Lofgren, the drummer Max Weinberg, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt perform at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left; the guitarist Nils Lofgren, the drummer Max Weinberg, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt perform at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialAhmir Thompson, who performs as Questlove as the drummer and co-leader of The Roots, in New York, June 14, 2021. (Andre D. Wagner/The New York Times)
EditorialAhmir Thompson, who performs as Questlove as the drummer and co-leader of The Roots, in New York, June 14, 2021. (Andre D. Wagner/The New York Times)