Saturday, November 24, 2012

Favorite jazz drummers!

Great interview with Billy Martin in this month’s Jazz Times! 
Got me thinking about some of my favorite jazz drummer records… 

Definitely not all, and definitely not in any particular order.  Just some very good -- make that great! drum parts on several of my favorite jazz albums.

Rashied Ali
John Coltrane - Expression and Interstellar Space

Art Blakey
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’

Elvin Jones
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

Billy Martin
Medeski, Martin & Wood – Shack Man

Max Roach
Duke Ellington – Money Jungle
Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus

Antonio Sanchez
Pat Metheny Group – Speaking of Now and The Way Up

Tony Williams
Miles Davis – Miles Smiles
Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage and Empyrean Isles

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