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!!!!

 

[optatio]

Peeter Uuskyla, Peter Brötzmann: Holy Drinker. Omlott MLR7002 [Sweden 2016]

Edited 23 hours ago by optatio

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Alan Dawson & Richard Davis were locked and loaded for quite a few years with Booker Ervin for his "books".

[Rooster_Ties]

Larry Young and Elvin Jones!

[T.D.]

1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Alan Dawson & Richard Davis were locked and loaded for quite a few years with Booker Ervin for his "books".

Yes! And especially with Jaki Byard on piano.

There was a fairly recent thread (which is slightly off the current topic) here

Edited 22 hours ago by T.D.

[Dub Modal]

19 hours ago, JSngry said:

YES!!!!

 

Do you know who's on piano here? I went to discogs to find out but the CD doesn't list any pianist, even on the back cover photo which has all the other personnel. 

[T.D.]

24 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Do you know who's on piano here? I went to discogs to find out but the CD doesn't list any pianist, even on the back cover photo which has all the other personnel. 

Damn, that's strange.

I quickly checked discogs, and the release pictured seems to be a PD collection of Pacific Jazz releases from 1952-53. None of those Pacific Jazz records credit a pianist, AFAICT all bari-drums-bass-trumpet quartet. But I must have missed something.

Edited 4 hours ago by T.D.

[T.D.]

It might be Mulligan himself on piano, see this page.

[clifford_thornton]

18 hours ago, optatio said:

Peeter Uuskyla, Peter Brötzmann: Holy Drinker. Omlott MLR7002 [Sweden 2016]

Great pairing!

[Dub Modal]

34 minutes ago, T.D. said:

It might be Mulligan himself on piano, see this page.

That would make sense. Thanks! I felt a little tension between him and Eardley for a minute and that sparked my interest. 

[Steve Reynolds]

Seeing Dresser/Hemingway in about 3 hours:)

Randy Peterson with Mat Maneri on viola / numero uno for me. Only thing better was with Papa Joe back in the day

Gerald Cleaver with Brandon Lopez on bass /meanest best bass/drum tandem in NYC before Gerald relocated 2 plus years ago

Tom Rainey with Tim Berne on alto saxophone /40 years simpatico 

Nasheet Waits with Sylvie Courvoisier on piano / sounds like it doesn’t make sense but it’s incredible 

Mike Reed with Jack Wright on saxophones (brand new pairing / saw 3 great shows this past Spring)

these are all magical combinations

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Steve Reynolds