UPDATE: As it turned out Four On The Floor and Cruise Ship Drummer never agreed to this but I'm posting in hopes it will encourage them to post their favourite 20 drum solos, because I'm curious! :)
Once again, in conjunction with Cruise Ship Drummer and Four on the Floor, we will be giving you, our loyal blog readers, 3 views for the price of one. Todd Bishop suggested we list our top 20 drum solos. This should be interesting. To be honest, there are tons of drum solos I don't like much. A lot of them feel to me like they don't have much to do with music. I'm also aware that the importance of a lot of them is pretty subjective. Okay, on to the list. I also have a youtube playlist pasted at the bottom of the post
1. Steps/What Was- Roy Haynes
2. Salsa For Eddie G.- Jack DeJohnette (NOTE; This tune was not available on youtube so I substituted Jack's great solo on "What I Say" by Miles Davis
3. Cherokee- Max Roach
4. Hank's Symphony - Art Blakey
5. Salt Peanuts- Max Roach
6. Crisis- Elvin Jones
7. Salt Peanuts- Philly Joe Jones
8. Moby Dick-John Bonham
9. Seven Steps to heaven- Tony Williams
10. I Want To Be Happy- Jo Jones (Tune starts at 9:00 on playlist)
11. Countdown- Art Taylor
12. I'm an Old Cowhand- Shelly Manne
13. Israel- Paul Motian ( They're actually trading choruses). Is that cheating?
14. The End - Ringo Starr
15. Quartet No. 2 - Steve Gadd
16. Philly Joe - Ah-Leu-Cha (this could also be debated whether it's a "drum solo")
17. West Side Story - Buddy Rich
18. Funky Drummer - Clyde Stubblefield
19. Mars - Rashied Ali
20. Personal Mountains -Jon Christensen (Again this wasn't on youtube so I substituted this one.)
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