Jazz drummers, so who do you rate?

[Quarky]

Yes - Jo Jones, Max Roach, Elvin Jones .....

Otherwise the Jazz drummer I happen to be listening to at the moment. I don't think I've ever heard a bad Jazz drummer ......

[Lat-Literal]

No Buddy Rich?

No Jack DeJohnette?

No Tony Allen?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Ringo.

[Bryn]

Ringo.

Your coat awaits.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Elvin Jones said Ringo "had something". What, I don't remember.

[DracoM]

Joey Morello for me.

[Beef Oven!]

Elvin Jones said Ringo "had something". What, I don't remember.

Reminds me of the old joke that when someone named him the best drummer, someone replied that Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles!

[Bryn]

Reminds me of the old joke that when someone named him the best drummer, someone replied that Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles!

Or indeed the Ruttles scene in which they select a new drummer to replace the 'Best' and need to find a suitable stage name for him. Eventually the other Ruttles exclaim "You're in", and thus they become John, Paul, George and Urine.

[Beef Oven!]

Or indeed the Ruttles scene in which they select a new drummer to replace the 'Best' and need to find a suitable stage name for him. Eventually the other Ruttles exclaim "You're in", and thus they become John, Paul, George and Urine.

I'd forgotten about the Ruttles!

[Joseph K]

No Jack DeJohnette?

#13

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No Buddy Rich??

#3

[Lat-Literal]

Thanks Joseph and ferney.

I read the thread a day or two ago but was going from memory today on account of being very, very tired.

[Jazzrook]

Big Sid Catlett
Kenny Clarke
Art Blakey
Max Roach
Roy Haynes
Joe Chambers
Elvin Jones
Tony Williams
Ed Blackwell
Frank Butler
Andrew Cyrille
Tony Oxley

JR

[Rcartes]

What a funny list (the original one, I mean (http://www.marlbank.net/4169-20-jazz-drum-greats.html). It's common, I've found, for (presumably) younger jazz enthusiasts to have a blind spot anywhere further back than about 1950, and not surprisingly, Roy Haynes the only drummer in the list born before about then. (I had a similar experience when I posted on another site my list of favourite rhythm sections).

Here are some of the missing greats, not, I think, mentioned hitherto in this thread, and in only approximately chronological order:

Jo Jones
Paul Barbarin
Baby Dodds
Sonny Greer
Davey Tough
Max Roach
Art Blakey
Tiny Kahn
Don Lamond
Shadow Wilson
Kenny Clarke
Pete La Roca
Mel Lewis

And that's just a few. Of more modern drummers, I'd add Idris Muhammad and Lewis Nash.

[gradus]

Kenny Clare
Chris Karan