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Joined: May 12 2009
Location: Coolwood
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Posted: June 07 2011 at 19:51
From the list, Cobham. He's powerful, funky, sets good grooves in complex time signatures, and drives the rest of a band like a Mack truck hauling down from the summit of I-80 at 120 mph without losing control. From off the list, Airto Moreira who sounds like four drummers and percussionists simultaneously.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
Joined: July 25 2007
Location: Devon,UK.
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Points: 2078
Posted: June 07 2011 at 19:53
Progosopher wrote:
From the list, Cobham. He's powerful, funky, sets good grooves in complex time signatures, and drives the rest of a band like a Mack truck hauling down from the summit of I-80 at 120 mph without losing control. From off the list, Airto Moreira who sounds like four drummers and percussionists simultaneously.
I was going to put Airto Moreira on the list but than I thought I would have to add (late) Tony Williams and all of the other fusion guys and the list wouldnt end.
Joined: January 24 2010
Location: Canada
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Points: 8085
Posted: June 07 2011 at 20:17
from the list, John Marshall-love his work with Nucleus, Soft Machine, and later with Charlie Mariano-complex and creative
not on the list, and under-rated-Joe Koinzer from Brainstorm, Enrico Grosso from Dedalus, and Peter Giger from Dzyan and Curt Cress from Passport-these guys are better in prog/fusion drumming than anybody on the list-all masters at this type of drumming
Joined: April 05 2006
Location: @ wicker man
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Posted: June 07 2011 at 20:54
Vote for Christian Vander who is a very good jazz drummer.
Nice to see Lenny White listed. Earlier today I was playing Venusian Summer and The Adventures of Astral Pirates. Somehow I'm bigger on those albums than his drumming on them, though. And I'm a big Wyatt fan, but not so much for his drumming, though I do think he was very good (and have been very impressed).
Joined: October 27 2010
Location: Ohio
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Points: 60
Posted: June 07 2011 at 21:04
I chose Bill Bruford because of his way he could combine Rock and Jazz so smoothly in a way you wouldn't even tell. His work with Yes, King Crimson and Earthworks are always considered some of the best drum performances ever made and i truly agree with that. He was a true original in how he played and did become a strict Jazz drummer after a while.
Joined: October 12 2007
Location: United States
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Points: 2762
Posted: June 08 2011 at 02:15
Bruford is winning by such a long shot that I'll give the vote to Gavin Harrison. Amazing style, he turns the drums into a melodic line of its own in PT's music. A nod to Billy Cobham too for some of the most powerful drumming out there.
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