Prog drummers who would prefer to be Jazz drummers

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Baldfried of the Neal Peart Band certainly takes a bit of beating....

Voted for Billy Cobham BUT:

Blinky Davison was a certifiable jazz nut and you can hear that in his playing with the Nice (albeit in a Prog context)
Jaki Liebezeit of Can strikes me as another jazzer playing cyclic rock to brilliant effect

Edited by ExittheLemming - July 05 2011 at 05:18

Poll Question: Who is your favourite?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Bill Bruford	28	[41.79%]
Christian Vander	9	[13.43%]
Michael Giles	4	[5.97%]
Gavin Harrison	10	[14.93%]
Chester Thompson	5	[7.46%]
Chad Wackerman	1	[1.49%]
Robert Wyatt	1	[1.49%]
John Marshall	1	[1.49%]
Lenny White	2	[2.99%]
Billy Cobham	6	[8.96%]
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ExittheLemming Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415	Posted: July 05 2011 at 05:17
	Baldfried of the Neal Peart Band certainly takes a bit of beating.... Voted for Billy Cobham BUT: Blinky Davison was a certifiable jazz nut and you can hear that in his playing with the Nice (albeit in a Prog context) Jaki Liebezeit of Can strikes me as another jazzer playing cyclic rock to brilliant effect Edited by ExittheLemming - July 05 2011 at 05:18

Guldbamsen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098	Posted: July 05 2011 at 05:45
	^Liebezeit started out as a jazz musician, for then to convert to whatever you wanna call Can´s music, much to the German jazz scene´s disappointment. In Denmark we had a similar convert called Alex Riel, who was the big beat prodigy at the time - playing with Bill Evans, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Stuff Smith, Wild Bill Davison and Eddie Lockjaw Davis. Then he was seduces into playing rock and was a member of Savage Rose, and consequentially the jazz purist was outraged, that such a talented drummer would waste his talent on, what essentially was lighthearted music with a chorus Just goes to show, that elitism doesn´t only show its ugly face in prog...
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