I promise to everyone who comments on this video that I will prepare a video before I die, including all the names written in the comments. 🤞

Chick Webb, Jo Jones, Cozy Cole, Sid Catlett, Baby Dodds, Zutty Singleton, Alvin Burroughs, Jimmy Crawford, Lionel Hampton, Sonny Payne, Louie Bellson, Max Roach, Sam Woodyard, Grady Tate, Buddy Rich....

Sid Catlett. Kenny Clarke. Roy Haynes. Bellson. Philly Joe. Papa Jo. Tony Allen. Sunny Murray. Ed Blackwell, of course. So many.

Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette , Brian Blade, Bill Steward, Joe Morello , Papa Jo Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Haynes, Billy Higgins, Paul Motian, Buddy Rich, Mel Lewis, Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd, Jeff Hamilton Eric Harland Ari Hoenig Jeff Ballard Nate Smith Danny Barcelona Louie Bellson Kenny Clarke Jimmy Cobb Peter Erskine Al Foster Art Taylor Ed Thigpen Kenny Washington Kenny Clarke... ect.

No puedo creer que no hayas incluido a Gene Krupa y Joe Morello ... es imperdonable

Couldn't have pick a better dozen myself. Good to see DeJohnette in there.

Great list....JoJo is incredible, but I would kick him off the list and put Bellson on there. What about Krupa?

I fully expected to see Joe Morello in there.

Joe Morello and Lenny White?

For what it's worth in regard to my personal #1 drummer, Joe Morello, he was John Bonham's favorite drummer which is why he had so many jazz licks with polyrhythms in his rock playing. How could Joe be left out of this list?

So glad to see Tony Williams in there. Seven Steps to Heaven is amazing.b

I just suggest four additions (in alphabetical order): Curt Cress, Jon Hiseman, Gene Krupa and Alphonse Mouzon. In 1978 I watched and listened to a monster show of top drummers in the Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany. It started with Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia featuring her Husband Jon Hiseman on drums. In one of his solos he kept the tempo on his bassdrums, slowed down with his left hand and speeded up with his right. He seemed to be absolutely free. I don't have to describe the features of the 2nd and the 3rd bands, 'cause they exposed the talents of Tony Williams and Billy Cobham.

It is amazing how hard Tony Williams used to hit the drums. Those flams were powerful.

Where's Joe Morello?

Nice picks but many missed but truly there's so many fantastic drummers out there past and present drum set playing has evolved so much over the years such as music itself but that tribal thing as never left it reflects society and growth of the human spirit and creative great job I enjoyed your vidio keep playing have fun

What a fantastic video ! Thanks you just made my day better!

Steve Smith wow!!! All these jazz players are so fn gifted!

Oh my God it's just wanderful thank you for this 🔥🔥🔥

Tony Williams y Elvin Jones.... superb...!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Joe Morello was responsible for the first jazz album to sell over a million copies because of his drum solo. Papa Jo Jones could make his drums talk. Fastest is not always the best. It's all about the music.

I really love Art Taylor's play on "My romance" with Hampton Hawes. He's my favorite drummer.

All are extraordinary drummers! Some very notables are missing. Max Roach is inventive, Steve Smith has the chops, but Buddy Rich still stands out in this list.

Personal list .art blakey,gene krupa,buddy rich,jo jones,elvin jones,joe morello,paul motian,philly joe jones,al foster,steve gadd,roy haynes and jake hanna

my brother went to high school with Steve Gadd, when I was about 8 or 9 I went to my brother high schools music festival and Steve Gadd was playing out in front of the school orchestra, from that day on I knew I had to be a drummer

Aloha great list mahalo for sharing 🌈

I blew a stereo speaker listening to Art Blakey . He was a force of nature . Salsa /Afro-Cuban drummers Ray Barretto and Mongo Santamaria should be on this list . I think Jaki Liebezeit is also an insane drummer of Jazz tradition but played in the band Can .

Really enjoyable solos...All of them!

Making lists is fun. Reading other people's lists is less fun.

Great list! All drummers I admire and each are different!

Dave Weckl, the summary of one hundred years of drums.

I like Papa Jo Jones, I also see someone mention joe morello and thought oh yea him too. There are bunches of great drummers out there it is hard to pick from.

Max Roach on "St. Thomas."

great players. very nice. I like the sounding.

One of my favourite is surely Buddy Rich, his left hand probably the faster ever, but for the color and complexity of drumming I like a lot Omar Hakim, which maybe can be in the best 20.... ?

the modernity of Tony Williams...

I miss Dennis Chambers and some other guys. But a good list thx

Al Foster for wall of sound with Miles in the 70's. Also props to Buddy Rich for playing with a 3 piece suit on...

Hullo from Scotland, white guy raised by a Navy family... My Grandad loved jazz and swing even before the movies brought some to Scotland, Pops was a real-time-wartime survivor.. y'know? was a teenager listening to US and French Resistance radio in the engine room of a frigate.. raised all his grandkids with old 78' rpm vinyl classics like Bille H, NC COle, Jaques Brel.. Nina Simone .. excellent list of drummers !! these are the peeps who REALLY invented things like funk, techno, hip hop and house. .. even METAL owes it's legacy to the Jazz drummers' innovation through ''sir'' Gadd of the infinite fractal riff

Nice compilation, thanks very lot! But I personally miss Alan Dawson.

I've heard or seen many of these drummers but in opinion and not as widely known of many of these is Chicago drummer of the 50's through 90's and maybe still today is this name Curtis Prince he played with Odell Brown and the Organizers in the 60's.

Billy Cobham.....god damn!

great choices

Thank you!

Anyone have a link to the entire Elvin Jones clip? What a maniac 🥁🥁

love it!!

Mr. Tony Williams.

Good List! Would've loved some snippets of them grooving....

Brother you just put out a bad ass video. No question baby ?

I love a lot of new-school guys: Antonio Sanchez, Brian Blade, Greg Hutchinson, Nasheet Watts, and basically anyone that's played drums for Dave Holland :)

alphabetical or not, it's fitting to start w/ art blakey--he's the king.

And... over the past 40 plus years - Jeff Hamilton

Rudiiments, rudiments everywhere in this and the expansion, interpretation and improvising of them and beyond! I think it was in Elvin Jones obit where I read he practiced 8 hours a day!!

I wasn't even looking at the screen, and I already knew it was Buddy Rich at #3 from the pure speed and accuracy.

I love Art Taylor's playing.

I think we often look at all those drummers from the past because they were on iconic records. Many of them amazing and groundbreaking. I would suggest a few from this era. Nate Smith, Mark Guiliana and in my opinion the greatest from this era Antonio Sanchez. He has the technique, versatility and resume go stack up to any drummer.

the world has so many good(sorry great) drummers each with a unique style...

I'm partial to Krupa, who to me was way ahead of his time. He Hadn't the degree of technical abilities of a Riche, but his thump was guttural & had a Rock feel before there was Rock. Bonham & Baker follow in what ever order. I say this if the criteria were for both solos & creatively blending during collaboration. I always lean toward the collaborative, because that's the basis for any composition. If the criteria was for solos alone there are tons of great soloists you could argue are the best.

Weckl, Gadd and Smith are great drummers, no question, but they're drummers who play jazz occasionally( today's jazz greats are more the likes of Jeff Watts, Bill Stewart, Brian Blade etc). And if the likes of Papa Jo and Kenny Clarke aren't making the all-time list, then the list isn't worth taking seriously imo. In fact, you could narrow the all-time greats down to just two or three ; players who had such a profound influence on the instrument, played in such a way, that changed whole concepts of playing : Kenny Clarke, who is credited as being the first to have put the time on the ride cymbal, and Elvin, who broke away from crunching 2&4 on the hihat with a pretty static ride cymbal pattern to playing in a freer, more broken way, accenting the ands on the ride, with the other three limbs supporting the ride as he saw fit. Both Kenny and Elvin really were pioneers of the instrument.

Marvin Smitty Smith would be on my list.

I usually don't like any lists I've seen on KZfaq - but this ? Me and you could definitely drink some beers bro, lol.... Great List !

Hearing all these drummers alongside each other it really struck me how Erskine stood out, to my ears anyway, as a uniquely subtle player, whose solo playing never verges on tiring listening, which even the greatest drummers are guilty of (that's why people hate drum solos).

i started playing drums when i was 8. i’m 54 now. Dave Weckl is… in my opinion… the bedt drummer i’ve ever heard.

I wish the recording of Billy Cobham was better. That guy I listened to on his solo album and he sounded like thunder.

Excellence. Senri kawaguchi needs adding. And she's gorgeous...

All off the chain !🤘

This list feels like it was made by a rock drummer who just discovered jazz. Jojo mayer and steve gadd jazz drummers ?🤔🤔. You're missing Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Clarke, Roy haynes, Jimmy Cobb, Billy higgins, Art taylor, etc.

nice choices. I wouldn't eliminate anyone but I would say you could very easily have brought a better example of Elvin's genius than that snippet from 3 Card Monty. I would also say Ed Blackwell belongs in the mix.

Wow thanks im 66 and did not know what a thoughtvi did on drummers, a new expieriance for sure.my favorite 3 rock drumners are ginger baker,john bonham. Anf neil peart

Gerry Hemingway, Andrew Cyrille, Makaya Ntshoko, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Hamid Drake, Al Foster...

12 ? Among many others. 👍👍👍

Roy Haynes?? 😉

You cant' include Weckl and Gadd without Vinnie Colaiuta.

Groove master

Ed Shaughnessy and the father of the double kick setup, Louie Bellson.

My first thought about this list was that he sure is missing some of the all-time greats from his best drummers list... But the list is his "Favorite 12 Best Jazz Drummers", so for that, its a great list of drummers. I'm not familiar with a few of these guys, like Gadd and Mayer. In their place I would add Roy Haynes and Gene Krupa. There are a few others I would add from the 50s and 60s if I were doing a list of my own.

Gene Krupa, Louis Belson, Cozy Cole...

Any list like this should include Louie Bellson. I mean the guy invented the double bass drum technique! What about Gene Krupa...... Not a thought out list.

Nice stuff A lot of innovators at the time I have my favorites but when it comes down to it no one here is in the league of Buddy Rich Things evolved but never will u see Buddies special gift

Terry Bozzio. 😎 Abide

Absolutely! Where the hell is the drummers’ drummer - Joe Morello

Il migliore

Ainsley Dunbar while with Zappa on Waka Jawaka & The Grand Wazoo! My only question (which I'm not going to eat!) is whether his playing on those LPs were from charts by Zappa or if he was totally responsible for creating those drum parts???

Erskine's technique is flawless.

Jojo Mayer! Amazing drummer but always looked like "Screech" from Saved by the Bell. 😂

rodney holmes,joe morello,gene kruppa,roy haynes...

👏👏👏👏👏👏

Reachin for it with that head nod get it get it Billie..:)

Selam Emre, benim favorilerim " Vinni Collaita ve Dennis Chambers..

No list that fails to include Kenny Clarke is a list worth considering

I am amazed at all the complaining about about one or anothers favorite few not being in the list and thus the list is invalid somehow. I found this to be an obvious constraint with an easy solution. There is no 1 GOAT. There are many GOATS, and too little space on likely any KZfaq compilation to name them. GOATS come in herds and bunches. If dissatisfied add to our collective appreciation, show us who you admire. Seems like most people on this thread look forward to anyone enriching the presentation.

Lenny White

The order is determined alphabetically. Jazz is a music genre with deep roots. That's why there are definitely missing parts in the list. You can write the names you think should be included in the list in the comments section.

I watched the movie whiplash last night, and know nothing about drums etc, who was the best here, and who was the best,or bests, and what was the best solo of all time, just thought I'd ask. Different stokes for different blokes,

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Ben Riley!!!!!!!!!

Jabali...Billy Hart

Are those broadcasters? Art Blakey used they were very sought after then as well

Hard to believe Smith wasted that extraordinary talent on Journey.

You left the most tasty drummer of all off your listPhiladelphia's pride and joy. The late.... Lex Humphries

Vinnie Colaiuta!!!!