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Interview: Brooks Tegler

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Marc Myers
Apr 01, 2009
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My first encounter with drummer Brooks Tegler happened about a year ago, when a CD called That's It! arrived in an envelope. I was about to toss it onto the “maybe” pile when my eye spotted Pussy Willow in the CD's play list. I thought to myself, "Who in their right mind would take on Bill Finegan’s impossibly nuanced swinger for Tommy Dorsey’s post-war…

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