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Jazz required a method of playing percussion different from traditional European styles, one that was easily adaptable to the different rhythms of the new genre, fostering the creation of jazz drumming's hybrid technique. [1] As each period in the evolution of jazz—swing and bebop, for example—tended to have its own rhythmic style, jazz ...
This is a list of American jazz drummers. Jazz drummers play percussion (predominantly the drum set ) in jazz , jazz fusion , and other jazz subgenres such as latin jazz . The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 1900s, influenced by jazz at large and the individual drummers within it.
Max Roach (1924–2007), one of the pioneers of modern jazz drumming during the 1940s bebop era. Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion (predominantly the drum kit, which includes a variety of drums and cymbals) in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and ...
Steven Bruce Smith (born August 21, 1954) is an American drummer best known as a member of the rock band Journey across three stints: 1978 to 1985, 1995 to 1998 and 2015 to 2020. [9] Modern Drummer magazine readers have voted him the No. 1 All-Around Drummer five years in a row. In 2001, the publication named Smith one of the Top 25 Drummers of ...
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A. Leon Abramson; Willie Ackerman; Clarence Acox Jr. Leo Adde; Henry Adler; Pheeroan akLaff; Mousey Alexander; Ray Alexander (musician) Taru Alexander; Muhammad Ali (drummer)
He gained worldwide recognition as one of America's foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock in the early 1970s. His incisive playing on Hancock's song "Actual Proof" off of the 1974 album Thrust garnered him an international cult following and influenced generations of drummers throughout the world.
A Life in Time – The Roy Haynes Story was named by The New Yorker magazine as one of the Best Boxed Sets of 2007 [24] and was nominated for an award by the Jazz Journalist's Association. [25] WKCR -FM, New York, [ 26 ] surveyed Haynes's career in 301 hours of programming, January 11–23, 2009. [ 27 ]