Best Jazz Drummers

**Frownland** · 12-15-2017, 03:03 PM

Nice, Alphonse Mouzon is one of my top fusion dudes (which is still jazz afaic). He gets swept aside for Cobham, but it ain't easy being a drummer when you're up against an octopus like him.

Chula Vista · 12-15-2017, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Nice, Alphonse Mouzon is one of my top fusion dudes (which is still jazz afaic). He gets swept aside for Cobham, but it ain't easy being a drummer when you're up against an octopus like him.

Amazing that Tommy Bolin was hand picked by Cobham for Spectrum and Mouzon for Mind Transplant. A white boy rocker from the midwest playing on two of the greatest black guy drummer fusion records of the 70s.

**Frownland** · 12-15-2017, 03:13 PM

To be fair, fusion is the whitest subgenre of jazz that isn't smooth jazz.

Chula Vista · 12-15-2017, 03:20 PM

Still, Bolin's resume is stellar.

Jame's Gang - Bang (when he replaced Joe Walsh) is a great early 70s rock record. A killer album cover to boot.

**Frownland** · 07-13-2018, 06:25 PM

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stori...jazz-drummers/

Thoughts?

OccultHawk · 07-13-2018, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stori...jazz-drummers/

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grindy · 07-14-2018, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stori...jazz-drummers/

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The jazz drummer equivalent to a Rolling Stone list of best rock bands. Although I was pleasantly surprised by seeing Tony Oxley on there.

**Frownland** · 07-14-2018, 12:33 AM

I saw him on the list and assumed it was aight because of it. That's smart listableness. Looking at it now it's whatever. Glad to see Rashied Ali on there but that's only because of Coltrane.

windsock · 09-04-2018, 10:34 AM

I think Roy Haynes is really underrated. His work on Now He Sings, Now He Sobs with Chick Corea is excellent.

ehname · 09-04-2018, 02:58 PM

Didn't read the whole thread here, but are there any love for Dannie Richmond? Longtime drummer for Charlie Mingus. Actually I don't have any other acquiantances with him apart from the Mingus times, but man I really loved his style! Acording to Mingus he was the only drummer good enough to play with him (complacency, yes?). Although I guess it's not only skills that is needed for playing with that angry man... But he sure could arrange his music and play that bass(!), I'd give him that.

12-15-2017, 03:03 PM	#71 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Nice, Alphonse Mouzon is one of my top fusion dudes (which is still jazz afaic). He gets swept aside for Cobham, but it ain't easy being a drummer when you're up against an octopus like him. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

12-15-2017, 03:13 PM	#73 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	To be fair, fusion is the whitest subgenre of jazz that isn't smooth jazz. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

12-15-2017, 03:20 PM	#74 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Still, Bolin's resume is stellar. Jame's Gang - Bang (when he replaced Joe Walsh) is a great early 70s rock record. A killer album cover to boot. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

07-13-2018, 06:25 PM	#75 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stori...jazz-drummers/ Thoughts? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-14-2018, 12:33 AM	#78 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I saw him on the list and assumed it was aight because of it. That's smart listableness. Looking at it now it's whatever. Glad to see Rashied Ali on there but that's only because of Coltrane. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

09-04-2018, 02:58 PM	#80 (permalink)
ehname Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2018 Posts: 58	Didn't read the whole thread here, but are there any love for Dannie Richmond? Longtime drummer for Charlie Mingus. Actually I don't have any other acquiantances with him apart from the Mingus times, but man I really loved his style! Acording to Mingus he was the only drummer good enough to play with him (complacency, yes?). Although I guess it's not only skills that is needed for playing with that angry man... But he sure could arrange his music and play that bass(!), I'd give him that.