Theme--drummer spotlight

[Milestones]

I endlessly make playlists on my computer, and of course there are many featuring the great drummers in our history.

I have also created some playlists that showcase how a particular drummer connects with another player, which could be a sax player, pianist, guitarist.  In some cases, I don't need to document it separately--there is simply such a large amount of Coltrane with Elvin and Miles with Tony Williams.

Spotlights so far:

• John Abercrombie with Jack DeJohnette
• Sonny Rollins with Max Roach
• Monk with Art Blakey
• Chick Corea with Roy Haynes

I should do some more.

 

 

[HutchFan]

Mingus with Dannie Richmond?

[Milestones]

Mingus/Richmond...one of those that is a given!

[JSngry]

Monk with Frankie Dunlop.

Or ette with Ed Blackwell 

Count Basie with Gus Johnson

[mikeweil]

14 hours ago, JSngry said:

Monk with Frankie Dunlop.

Or ette with Ed Blackwell 

Count Basie with Gus Johnson

YES to all three!

[clifford_thornton]

Cecil with Cyrille, Murray, Charles

Albert Ayler with Murray, Harris, Graves

Pullen with Graves, Richmond

Alexander von Schlippenbach with Sven-Åke Johansson

François Tusques with Sunny Murray

Cecil and/or Bill Dixon with Tony Oxley

Derek Bailey with Oxley or Han Bennink

Howard Riley with Oxley, Alan Jackson, Jon Hiseman, John Stevens

Trevor Watts with John Stevens

Evan Parker with Stevens, Paul Lytton, Han Bennink

Irène Schweizer with Pierre Favre (or Cyrille, Bennink, Moholo, Sommer)

[Dan Gould]

OK I will play:

Jeff Hamilton and Ray Brown

 

[mikeweil]

Percy Heath and Connie Kay!

[colinmce]

Some other favorites not mentioned in this thread so far by relationship:

Drums/Piano:
Art Blakey with Herbie Nichols
Roy Haynes with Monk
Kenny Clarke with Monk
Reggie Nicholson with Myra Melford
Jo Jones with Teddy Wilson
Vernell Fournier with Ahmad Jamal (too easy!)

Drums/Saxophone:
Randy Peterson with Joe Maneri
Nasheet Waits with Tony Malaby
Rashied Ali with Coltrane (also perhaps too easy)
Dernardo Coleman with Ornette Coleman
Jack DeJohnette with Jackie McLean
Jo Jones with Lester Young
Han Bennink with Peter Brotzmann

Drums/Bass:
Gerry Hemingway with Mark Dresser
Tony Williams with Richard Davis
Roy Haynes with Ahmed Abdul-Malik
Antonin Gerbal with Joel Grip
Susie Ibarra with William Parker
Scott Colley with Bill Stewart
Kenny Washington with Peter Washington

Drums/Trumpet:
Kenny Clarke with Miles Davis
Ed Blackwell with Don Cherry
Phillip Wilson with Olu Dara

[Milestones]

Plenty of good pairings...my thanks to everyone.

I'm thinking more along the lines of players who were not in actual working groups for considerable (or decent) amount of time.  Thus I would not choose Ron Carter and Tony Williams since they served so long with Miles (and you could count VSOP as well).  Or Haden and Blackwell, since they were key players in the Ornette quartet and in Old and New Dreams.

But then again it might be cool to spotlight Carter/Williams outside of Miles /VSOP, or Holland and DeJohnette outside of Gateway

 

[Milestones]

Another one I have is Coltrane and Art Taylor.  It should be remembered that Taylor was the drummer of choice on Trane's Prestige dates.  It's hard to compete with the legendary pairing of Coltrane and Elvin, but there is a lot of fine stuff on these early records.   

[T.D.]

Hamid Drake and William Parker in the drums/bass category.

[Dub Modal]

Chico Hamilton with Gerry Mulligan. I think that's in the vein of what you're after...

[Niko]

Donald Bailey with Hampton Hawes 

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Dub Modal said:

Chico Hamilton with Gerry Mulligan.

YES!!!!