These guys had no antetypes, no tradition, they INVENTED drum set playing, they were the beginning of all that, what makes them even greater.

One look at Jo Jones' face is all you need to know he's the happiest man on earth when on the drums.

Nice to see Lionel Hampton as a drummer in this compilation.

Everyone here is amazing. Papa Jo has an extra "snap" that's hard to define. Amazing work.

Thanks, guys. You have real good hears! Every drummer in rock, pop, metal, or any other music typologies today, of mostly commercial styles, didn't invent a single roll. All the technique and groove were invented by this amazing musicians !! I'm glad you liked. It took me some weeks, to trace each big name from the early Jazz, select a good clip, and glue them by cronologic order (more or less...) along the XXth century..

Great job with the history of the great swing players that started it all!!!

It's not simply the posting, but all the work envolved in the searching, download it, editing, mounting the video.slided shows, inserting the drummers names, and back then there was a 10 minute limitation, and, I'm a saxophone player, my friends... Well, I 've allways loved rhythm, and had a special bond with my drummers, so... But the guys that disliked pherhaps don't even realize the effort and commitment that is necessary to do a work like these video collection... It's so much easier to click a "baaahhh", I dislike the video 'cause it has not Billy Cobham in it !!! Well, Cobham doesn't appear because I don't like his drumming... But I don't go on clicking 'dislikes' on his videos, understand?? So, be happy, and constructive fellows, please...

Thanks to the vidio gods. I love watching the oldmasters. The inspiration I get is priceless. And my kindred spirit. Highly honored at the House of Spirits. Our Prayer Temple; "Chick Web". And he is my hero. His pain is now as much as mine. Honors my Brother. See you soon. But I ain't ready! I still got lots of Drumming to do.

One of my music teachers nicknamed me Cozy Cole whenever he saw me practising :)

Great compilation, thank you very much, they should be a font of inspiration for any drummers.

Sid Catlett--Holy Smokes!

spercoco: Bellson, Manne, Morello, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich are in part 2 or 3. I couldn't care less for the color, faith, sex, drums brand, or any other thing that brings variety to Human Race, and in this case, artists. I'm a tenor sax player, born in Portugal, and my heroes are Rollins, Cannonball, Parker, Mingus, Horace Silver, Joe Zawinul amongst others. "I have a dream", the same dream Martin Luther King had and shared with all of us.

Some great footage here I've never seen before :-)

Most just used a basic 4 piece kit and sounded great. It shows you don't need the big ,massive kits a lot of drummers use today. Great to see the old kits and brands.

Jo Jones, and Pete La Roca are my favorite on this list.

THANK YOU SO SO SOOOOOO MUCH FOR ACTUALLY POSTING A VIDEO ON THE GREATS NOT KEITH MOON AND JOHN BONHAM ECT!!!

THESE ARE THE MASTERS!!! THANK U SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!

Marvelous...new insights into the masters. THANK YOU! MS

I have concentrated on fiddle for the last 40 years after starting in music as a drummer. This is wonderful...thanks!!

Thanks for posting this legendary masterpiece!! This is phenomenal!! These pioneering brothers help shape music into what it is today.

The best I have ever seem . I feel so happy now

Papa Jo Jones. :)

Beautiful man! Thanks for posting!!

This put a big smile on my face

I'd like to see more of the opening clip. It would be great to see that show.

Great share, my friend‼️ Appreciate this so very, very much‼️ Cheers‼️ Sam :-)

Nice clips... history at its finest.

thanks so much! This could help me become a jazz drummer myself. I really want to be a jazz drummer

awesome! thanks for sharing

My god, Jo Jones

GREAT stuff!!!

Nice job Rui Azul !!

w WONDERFUL! Guys that I have read about but never got a chance to see their hot stuff. As a professional drummer, this is inspiring. Thank you.

No one here , worrying about double bass drum pedal speed, like these days.

I think it's funny to see people snob it up over music and in particular musicians. Whenever I see them together, especially from different generations, they almost always appreciate each others talent and work. Even across genres, great rock musicians like country music, country guys like big band, but KZfaq commenters all seem to know better, and get a kick out of bashing guys (and gals) whose talent they could never hope to match.

mi ricordo da ragazzino lo ascoltavo sempre e adesso mi ha fatto piacere riascoltarlo

I would like to have that DVD too!!! Unafortunately, these things are very difficult to be released for commercial distribution! I'm a tenor sax player, and produced a multimedia show named "The History of Jazz & Blues", and while we (a quintet) play tunes composed in each decade, era or Jazz style (Swing, BeBop, Cool, etc...), I've made a video slide-show projected behind us, on stage. Between tunes I talk a little about the characteristics of the jazz aesthetic of the next tune.

amazing!!!

Take a look to the other parts of the series Great Drummers

wonderful - papa jo jones ( my favourtie in this group with baby dodds) with an inspired ben webster... zutty singleton with johnny st cyr and so many others... moving

Wow ... got a great education from watching your 3 clips of great drummers. Would have loved to see some more of the contemporary greats on that list ... I would add ... Airto Moreira, Jack De Johnette, Steve Gadd, Lenny White, Billy Cobham, and possibly Terry Clarke, among others. But most of all, Tony Williams belongs on an all-time greats list.

Note the musicality of these players; non of them playing at a 1,000,000,000 MPH either ....

:-) Maravilhoso!!!

grate indeed!

Awesome

The source ! thank you ! ! !

Although, they incorporated some characteristics of the new 'thing', But Baby Dodds or Chick Webb were included in Great Drummers Part 2, or 3. But there's always somebody that have some critios to point on everything other's do. No one is perfect, nor even the Greatest Artists. They're also humans, as you, me, and the rest of Mankind. Sorry for the 'mistakes',

Them guys is hopped up !

Thanks...

Major technical difference (drum equipment wise) between these drummers and modern day drummers are the calf skin heads used then rather than the mylar ones in use today!

Shadow Wilson is really awesome.

Does anyone know where the first video with a bunch of drummers is from? I remember seeing it several years ago on daily motion but it was much longer and in colour. I believe it was either a short film or a scene from a movie. I remember the scene was a sort of prison for drummers or something like that. I've been searching for it for a couple of years, the short clip from this video is all I could find. If anyone knows where or what this video is I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

wow, these are some teasers. would like to see each one of these film clips at full length -- are these all available on a DVD?

What is the opening sequence. I want to see that in full.

Amazing. Which band plays in the beginning?

Where did you get the opening video from? I really would love to see the rest!

Oh yes!!!

Holy Shit!!!!!! Shadow Wilson!!!???!!!???!!! Didn' t know there was film of him out there.

É deveras impressionante a semelhança que eu noto nas expressões faciais e corporais de SONNY PAYNE, aos 6':26''; 6':28''; 6':33'' e 6':41/42'', com as que o baterista português PEDRO TAVEIRA (infelizmente já falecido - mas é possível pesquisar e visualizá-lo no KZfaq) fazia, nos mesmos tipos de BREAKS e PARADIDLES seguidos de 'pratada' no 'ride', seguidamente agarrado com a mão (ou com a baqueta posta pela face inferior do cymbal, a empurrá-o para cima) para que parasse de (res)soar prolongadamente... Era uma festa para os sentidos 'ouvê-lo a tocar...

papa jo joness the panic

thank you it was helpfull , can please put a video of chick webb performance (solo's) im very intersting on the way he use to play , and can't find any thing on youtube , nothing but his his songs , thank you again

Where is that opening video from? I'd love to see the whole thing.

I really 'love' the 15 guys that gave this compilation a "down finger", and I was thinkin' that probably they prefer: a) Rock, Hard-rock or Heavy Metal drummers, and, for those, I just remember that: Charlie Watts - Rolling Stones - had a Jazz Big Band ; Ginger Baker - The Cream - had a very Jazz oriented band, "Ginger Baker's Airforce"; A drummer from a very Hard band - Mettalica, Aerosmith, Uriah Heep, Def Leppard, or some other group in that kind of musical aesthetics (please note that I'm not making any kind of criticism or judgement of value), declared in a TV interview that « I'm only playing this kind of music because it pays far better that the Music I love, JAZZ» - It's a fact that most drummers of any kind of Music agree that the better and more creative percussionists and drummers are the Jazz ones - and that analysis also extends to almost other instrumentists ... b) Fusion, Rock Jazz, Crossover and similar drummers - I remember that there´s also very good or even exellent drummers, there, like (à la batterie : Tony 'Williames' - il est trés jeune, il a seulement dix-sept ans ... [ in: 'Miles Davis in Paris' ] ); Peter Erskine and any other Weather Report drummer; Billy Cobham; and so on.. - I just didn't make any other episodes of 'Greatest Drummers' because I'm busy recording my third CD and drawing my new Comics album ... and ... sorry for that matter! c) that I'd never put a hand on KZfaq... d) that I'll would never existed at all... e) that they had cliked in the ok finger, or 'up finger' (no, not that finger you're thinkin about !!), instead otherwise... f) always cliking in the down finger or saying "Booooo!" to anything that any other guy does, just because, YES, just because THEY ARE NEGATIVE GUYS !! Try to be happy, at least, ok??

Drum history...

and .... the world was already modern!!!

I gotta try that foot on the floor tom.

america's treasure

Papa Joe Jones, even Krupa acknowledged him. Sorry no drummers today.

Because different drummers had signed for different record labels, these DVDs, that would be a MUST for the new generations of players and Jazz lovers, aren't released because those big labels, like Blue Note, CBS, Riverside, Verve, etc, don't agree in terms of copyrights, division of profits... you know the story. It's like between President and House of Representants... Money, money, money, greed, big bucks... Same old sh... tch..tch...tch t..tch ( now the hi-hat cymbals fades in ....

count basie - corner pocket

No Billy Cobham?

You mean the band with only drummers in the generic? I think it was a reunion to make a spot for a tv commercial, don't remember well. Sorry.

About what year did most drum set manufacturers stop including a wood block and cowbell?

When drummers state that "John Bonham was the greatest drummer ever", I laugh, and say, "Papa Jo Jones, my friends...Papa Jo Jones."

great to hear chick webb ,,,,,, world class

The cronology is not so accurate. Remember, The 'after' and 'before' is about the age of those musicians, or their public visibility? Because when Charlie Parker and Dizzy and Monk started with BeBop, Louis Armstrong went on performing, Duke Ellington and his Big Band too. When a new style or aesthetics in Art (Jazz music, in this case) begins, it doesn't mean that all the other artists that were already in the Jazz scene stop playing, die, or start playing the new 'style'...

Shadow was Monk's favorite drummer.

Everybody you named came after Baby Doobs, Zutty Singleton, Chick Webb etc...

dejen de joder con los pinches comerciales y comerciales!!! grrrr chido la acomplacion :D

even though this is old people music, it's pretty awesome

No white drummers huh? Any reason for that? There were more than enough of them: Dave Tough, Ray Beaduc, Loius Bellson, Shelly Manne, Joe Morello just to name o few. Oh yeah and a couple of guys that were untouchable by the names of Krupa and Rich.

listen to these brothers they got that pocket always that African thing just swings right through, i mean the brothers always the best drummers, buddy rich, gene kruper, bohanan nice but not as versatile as the brothers

All the great drummers used, or are using, the traditional grip, I detest seeing the match grip being used, to me it is a sloppy, easy way of playing drums and the so called drummers who teach it should be ashamed to take their pupils' money. By the way I was fortunate to see, many years ago Sonny Payne in the Harry James orchestra, lovely memories.