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Drums

Pioneer
Avant-Garde
(arnes I. Lent Ed Blackwell (with Ornette Coleman)
(recorded "The Ragtime Drummer" in 1904!) Danny Richmond (with Charles Mingus)
1 Don Moye (with Art Ensemble of Chicago)
Gerry Hemingway (with Anthony Braxton)
Top 1920s Drummers Elvin (ones Rashied Ali Milford
Tony Sbarbaro Ben Pollack Graves Charles Moffett
Dennis Charles Andrew Cyrille
Baby Dodds Vic Berton
Sunny Murray
Chauncey Morehouse Zutly Singleton Philip Wilson
Paul Barbarin Clifford Jarvis
J.C. Moses Beaver Harris
Joe Chambers
1 Pheeroan Ak Laff Bob Moses
Barry Altschul Steve McCall
Swing Era Paul Motian
Tony Oxley
|o (ones (with Count Basie) Han Bennink
Sonny Greer (with Duke Ellington) Paul Lovens joey
BobbyBaron
Previte
Gene Krupa
Chick Webb
Dave Tough
Fusion
Big Sid Catlett
Cozy Cole Billy Cobham
Ray McKinley Lenny While (with Return To Forever)
Alphonse Mouzon
Steve Gadd
Dixieland Peter Erskine (with Weather Report)
Ronald Shannon Jackson (free funk)
George Wettling
Ray Bauduc Dave Weckl (with Bill
Chick Corea's Elektric Ba
Bruford
Nick Fatool

Unbeatable Virtuoso Big Band Drummers

Louie Bellson Mel Lewis
Buddy Rich Frank Capp
Sonny Payne Rufus Jones

Jeff Hamilton
Sam Woodyard (with Duke Ellington)
Founders of Bebop Drums
Kenny Clarke
Max Roach
Art Blakey
1980s- 1990s
T.S. Monk
Tony Williams
Billy Higgins
1950s Jack Dejohnette Louis Hayes
Roy Haynes Jake McCurdy
Roy Hanna
Grady Tate
Philly |oe Jones Mickey Roker
Chico Hamilton Roy
Alan Brooks
Dawson
Connie Kay (with Modern )azz Quartet) Joe LaBarbera
Al Foster Billy Hart
Shelly Manne Dennis Chambers
Danny Gottlieb
)oe Morello (with Dave Brubeck) Victor Lewis
Art Taylor Herlin Riley
|eff Watts
Jimmy Cobb Adam Nussbaum Ralph Penland
Ed Thigpen (with Oscar Peterson) Ralph Peterson
Leon Parker
Stan Levey Cyndi Blackman
Terri Lyne Carrington
Marvin "Smitty" Smith
Kenny Washington Carl Allen
Lewis Nash Winard Harper

interest in world music-this imagin.iiiw session liberally incorporates Latin influ-
ences (Brazilian, Spanish. Peruvian and Afro Cuban) as well as Middle Eastern and
African elements. In thai lazzTimes interview, DiMeola explained that this CD's
title resulted in part from his frustration over the fact that many labels and com-
meraal radio stations were choosing bloodless "elevator muzak" over more adven
turous fusion. Consistently rewarding. Ave makes it clear that DiMcola did 111
right thing by refusing to compromise. -Alex Henderson
World Sinfonia / OcL 1990 / Tomato ♦♦♦♦♦
Comparing early Al DiMeola dates like Land oj the Midnight Sun and Casino I
his a|bl||„s ,lf tk, 1W(ls |fs dear how much his p|ay,ng has sllll,m,d The exce,