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