These are some recordings that I have enjoyed and
learned from.
They are catagorized by drummer.
Note: This page is still under construction!
I'm sure I've left off a lot of great players and recordings.
Jazz Recordings
Art Blakey
With the Jazz Mesengers: Moanin, Indestructible
Steve Bohannon
With Don Ellis: Live at Monterey, Live in Three and 2/3 Four Time, Electric
Bath, Shock Treatment
Mike Clark Give the Drummer Some
Jack Dejohnette Pictures
With Gateway: Gateway
With McCoy Tyner: Supertrios
With John Abercrombie: Timeless
With Joe Farrell: Moon Germs, Song of the Wind
Peter Erskine
With Steps Ahead: Steps Ahead, Modern Times
With Gary Burton: Times Like These, Reunion
Jake Hanna
Anything you can find with Woody Herman
Billy Hart
With Herbie Hancock: Crossings, Sextant
Roy Haynes Out of the Afternoon
With Oliver Nelson: Blues and the Abstract Truth
Ralph Humphrey
With Don Ellis: At Fillmore, Tears of Joy
Elvin Jones And Then Again, Polycurrents
With John Coltrane: Crescent, A Love Supreme
Mel Lewis
With the Thad Jones, Mel Lew Orchestra: Presenting the Thad Jones Mel Lewis
Orchestra, Monday Night at the Village Vanguard, Consumation
Shelly Manne Son of Gunn, Manne-That's Gershwin, 2/3/4, Boss Sounds, Swinging
Sounds, Mannekind, Live At the Black Hawk Vol 1-5
With Bill Evans: A Simple Matter of Conviction
Joe Morello
With Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out, The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie
Hall, Time Further Out, Time in Outer Space
Bob Moses When Elephants Dream of Music, Bittersuite in the Ozone, Visit with the
Great Spirit, The Story of Moses, Time Stood Still
With Gary Burton: Dreams So Real, Ring
With Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life
With Ernie Krivda: Satanic
Buddy Rich Swinging New Big Band, The Driver, Buddy Rich and Max Roach, Rich and Krupa
- Burning Beat
Max Roach Drums Unlimited, Buddy Rich and Max Roach, Brown and Roach - 1954
Tony Williams
With Miles Davis: Four and More, Miles in Tokyo, Miles Smiles, ESP, Nefertiti,
Sorcerer
With Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
With McCoy Tyner: Supertrios
Funk, Fusion and Rock
Alex Acuna
With Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Dennis Chambers
With John Scofield: Loud Jazz
Mike Clark
With Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters: Thrust, Flood
With The Headhunters: Survival of the Fittest
With Paul Jackson: The Funk Stops Here
Billy Cobham Spectrum
With Miles Davis: Jack Johnson
With Dreams: Dreams
With Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire
Vinnie Colaiuta Vinnie Colaiuta
With Roben Ford: Talk to Your Daughter
Bobby Colomby
With Blood Sweat and Tears: Blood Sweat and Tears, New Blood
Jack Dejohnette
With Miles Davis: Bitches Brew, Live Evil
Kenwood Dennard
With Pat Martino: Joyous Lake
Drumbo
With Captain Beefheart: Lick My Decals Off Baby, The Spotlight Kid
Aynsley Dunbar
With Frank Zappa: Chunga's Revenge, Waka Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo,
Fillmore East - 1971, Just Another Band from L.A.
Steve Ferrone
With the Average White Band: Cut the Cake
Steve Gadd
With Chick Corea: Leprechaun
With Steely Dan: Aja
David Garibaldi
With Tower of Power: Tower of Power, Back To Oakland, Drop It In the
Slot
With Wishful Thinking: Wishful Thinking, Think Again, Way out West
Eric Gravatt
With Weather Report: I Sing the Body Electric
Ed Greene
With Steely Dan: Aja
Ralph Humphrey
With Frank Zappa: Roxy and Elsewhere, Over Night Sensation, Apostrophe
Steve Jordan
With Michael Urbaniak: Body English
With Steve Khan: Casa Loco
Jim Keltner
With Steely Dan: Aja
Rick Marotta
With Steely Dan: Aja, Gaucho, The Royal Scam
George Marsh
With Jerry Hahn: The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood
Harvey Mason
With Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters: Headhunters
Zigaboo Modeliste
With the Meters: Uptown Rulers-Live on the Queen Mary
Alphonse Mouzon
With Jeremy Steig: Temple of Birth
Jeff Porcaro
With Steely Dan: Gaucho
With Toto: Toto IV
Bernard Purdie Bernard Purdie's Soul to Jazz
With Steely Dan: Aja, Gaucho, The Royal Scam
Leon Rix
With Ten Wheel Drive: Construction #1
Michael Shrieve
With Santana: Caravanserai, Welcome
Terry Silverlight
With Barry Miles: White Heat
Steve Smith
With Steps Ahead: N.Y.C.
With Vital Information: Where We Come From
Jabo Starks
With James Brown: Foundations of Funk
Clyde Stubblefield
With James Brown: Foundations of Funk
Arthur Tripp (aka Ed Marimba)
With Frank Zappa: Burnt Weeny Sandwhich
With Captain Beefheart: Lick My Decals of Baby, The Spotlight Kid
Lenny White
With Return to Forever: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy,
Where Have I Known You Before, No Mystery
Tony Williams Emergency, Ego, Turn it Over, The Old Bums Rush, Believe It, Million Dollar
Legs
With Stanley Clark: Stanley Clark