Lenny White vs Billy Cobham vs Dennis Chambers

Three one-of-a-kind drummers and fusion legends, whom are legends in name and groove, whos your favourite

Lenny White, but sot so much for his drumming skills itself which haven't struck me as that great, but for albums of his and ones he's been involved with. "Venusian Summer" has great music on it, if rather inconsistent for my tastes, particularly the "Venusian Summer Suite" which has been a particular favourite track of mine in Fusion. I particularly like the electronic, cosmic Dr. Patrick Gleeson's contribution to it with the more classical sounding opening (reminiscent of Holst or Debussy), but then we get this fantastic jazz funk. I also like his album, "The Adventures of the Astral Pirates".

Additionally, quoting some of my review sans quotation marks, Lenny White is the drummer who played on the seminal album by Miles Davis, "Bitches Brew", and also played on the most excellent "Red Clay" by Freddie Hubbard. He also performed on Eddie Henderson's masterpiece, and I believe one of the greatest albums in JRF, "Realization" (which is what initially drew me to explore Lenny White albums). In fact, Lenny White has played with a great many of the jazz, and jazz fusion greats such as Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Buster Williams, Eddie Henderson, Billy Hart, Benny Maupin, Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, various Return to Forever guys obviously, and Larry Coryell.

I'm not so familiar with Dennis Chambers.

The Dark Elf wrote: Logan wrote: Lenny White, but sot so much for his drumming skills itself which haven't struck me as that great, but for albums of his and ones he's been involved with. "Venusian Summer" has great music on it, if rather inconsistent for my tastes, particularly the "Venusian Summer Suite" which has been a particular favourite track of mine in Fusion. I particularly like the electronic, cosmic Dr. Patrick Gleeson's contribution to it with the more classical sounding opening (reminiscent of Holst or Debussy), but then we get this fantastic jazz funk. I also like his album, "The Adventures of the Astral Pirates". Additionally, quoting some of my review sans quotation marks, Lenny White is the drummer who played on the seminal album by Miles Davis, "Bitches Brew", and also played on the most excellent "Red Clay" by Freddie Hubbard. He also performed on Eddie Henderson's masterpiece, and I believe one of the greatest albums in JRF, "Realization" (which is what initially drew me to explore Lenny White albums). In fact, Lenny White has played with a great many of the jazz, and jazz fusion greats such as Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Buster Williams, Eddie Henderson, Billy Hart, Benny Maupin, Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, various Return to Forever guys obviously, and Larry Coryell. I'm not so familiar with Dennis Chambers. Don't forget Lenny on Return to Forever's Romantic Warrior, one of my all-time favorites.

Not forgotten, but I just didn't get much out of that album -- has been quite a few years since I last listened to it, though, and my tastes have rather changed in that time. I did like Return to Forever's Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy considerably though (which also has White).

Lenny White by 1/2 and inch over Billy Cobham, and 1 inch over Dennis Chamber. Three quite excellent drummers. Very hard choice.

All great, very close in stature.

Over all for me would be Billy Cobham but in his prime Lenny White was his equal.  I think Dennis Chambers suffers here because his lack of identification with a dominant fusion group like Cobham and White have.  Sad because Chambers is damn good.

Cobham

Argo2112 wrote: Pull up some video & watch them. You will see it's Dennis Chambers.

Edited by dwill123 - July 25 2017 at 16:57

Cobham, but White's not far behind!

Logan wrote: Lenny White, but sot so much for his drumming skills itself which haven't struck me as that great, but for albums of his and ones he's been involved with. "Venusian Summer"