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A List of Famous Jazz Drummers with photos! These are musicians who are masters of their craft. While it is often the singers who claim all the fame, these musicians are famous in their own right. As time has past and music evolved, the list of musical instruments available has grown, especially with the advent of the digital age. While the vocalist may have his lyrics, it is the musicians behind him, who truly make the sound. After all, instrumentals are as popular as ever, but acappellas are few and far between. Best of all, with our modern recording technology, we will be able to enjoy these artists for centuries if not millennia!

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Rank   Name Genre(s) Albums Nationality
  1. 1

    Aaron Scott

    United States of America
  2. 2

    Adam Cruz

  3. 3
    Jazz, Post-bop
  4. 4
    Jazz fusion, Jazz
    Essential, the Very Best Of, Promises of the Sun, Killer Bees, Fingers, Struck by Lightning, Free, The Other Side of This, Homeless, Life After That, Seeds on the Ground, Virgin Land, Revenge of the killer bees, Revenge of the Killer Bees, Free More
  5. 5
    Jazz
    United States of America
  6. 6

    Alan Dawson

    Jazz
    Waltzin' With Flo
  7. 7

    Albert "Tootie" Heath

  8. 8
    Jazz fusion, Jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz
  9. 9
    Rock music, Jazz, Hard bop
    Celebration
    Denmark
  10. 10

    Alphonse Mouzon

    Kozmigroov
    The Best of Alphonse Mouzon, The Essence of Mystery, Virtue, The Survivor, Funky Snakefoot, Mind Transplant, The Man Incognito, Early Spring, Funky Snakefoot, Mind Transplant, In Search of a Dream, By All Means More
  11. 11

    Alvester Garnett

  12. 12

    Alvin Stoller

  13. 13
    Jazz
    Nuba, Special People, Metamusicians' Stomp, Nuba, The Navigator
    United States of America
  14. 14

    Andrew Isaac Walker

  15. 15

    Anthony Brown

    United States of America
  16. 16
    Jazz
    Migration, Live in New York at Jazz Standard
  17. 17
    Jazz
    The Painter
  18. 18
    Jazz, Bebop, Hard bop
    Feel the Wind, A Night at Birdland Vol. 3, Indestructible, At the Jazz Corner of the World, Drums Around the Corner, The African Beat, Jazz in Paris: Paris Jam Session, Orgy in Rhythm, Volume Two, Birdland Masters, Volume 2, The Jazz Messengers, Holiday for Skins, Volume 2, Blakey with the Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!, Free For All, Quadromania: Out of Nowhere, Three Blind Mice, Volume 1, On View at the Five Spot Cafe, A Night at Birdland Vol. 2, Roots & Herbs, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Des femmes disparaissent, Jazz Messages, Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers, Originally, Orgy in Rhythm, Ugetsu, The Witch Doctor, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live at Ronnie Scott's, In This Korner, Just Jazz: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live, Mosaic, A Night in Tunisia, Ritual: The Modern Jazz Messengers, The Jazz Messenger, Ken Burns Jazz: Definitive Art Blakey, Blakey, Midnite Jazz & Blues: My Romance, Birdland Masters, Volume 1, Pisces, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk, The Big Beat, Midnite Jazz & Blues: The Breeze and I, A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March, The Best of Art Blakey, Once Upon a Groove, A Night at Birdland, Volume 1, A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1, At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2, Sound of Jazz, Jazz in Paris: 1958 Paris Olympia, A Night in Tunisia, Live Messengers, Latin & Jazz, Volume 1, Theory of Art, The Freedom Rider, Africaine, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, A Jazz Message, The African Beat, Child's Dance, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Africaine, The Concord Jazz Heritage Series, Caravan, A Jazz Message, The History of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Mirage, Orgy in Rhythm, Volume 1, Au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Blues March, Paris 1958, Drum Suite, Like Someone in Love, Planet Jazz More
    United States of America
  19. 19

    Art Taylor

    Taylor's Tenors, A.T.s delight, Taylor's Wailers, A.T.'s Delight
    United States of America
  20. 20
    Dixieland, Jazz
    United States
  21. 21
    Alternative rock, Jazz, World music, Grunge music
    The Painted Desert
    United States of America
  22. 22
    Jazz
    A.R.C.
  23. 23
    360 Degree Music Experience, Beaver Is My Name, Negcaumongus
  24. 24

    Ben Pollack

  25. 25

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