Jazz Drums

Frühe Jazz Drummer
  • Baby Dodds (1898 - 1959)
  • Tony Sbarbaro (1897 - 1969
  • Jasper Taylor (1894 - 1964)

Chicago & New York
  • Ben Pollack (1905 - 1971)
  • Frank Snyder
  • Vic Berton (1896 - 1951)
  • Dave Tough (1907 - 1948)
  • Bob Consulman
  • Paul Kettler
  • George Stafford
  • Barrett Deems (1914 - 1998)
  • Wayne Jones
  • Slick Jones (1907 - 1969)

Solos
  • Lionel Hampton (1909)
  • Chick Webb (1901 - 1939)
  • George Wettling (1907 - 1968)
  • Ray Baudic (1909 - 1988)

Ragtime Drummers
  • William Reitz
  • James Lent
  • Budd Gilmore

New Orleans
  • Baby Dodds (1898 - 1959)
  • Zutty Singleton (1898 - 1975)
  • Paul Barbarin (1899 - 1969)

Swing Ära
  • Sonny Greer (1895 - 1982)
  • Cozy Cole (1906 - 1981)
  • Dave Tough (1907 - 1948)
  • Gene Krupa (1909 - 1973)
  • Chick Webb (1909 - 1939)
  • Big Sid Catlett (1910 - 1951)
  • Buddy Rich (1917 - 1987)
  • Jo Jones (1911 - 1985)
  • Kaiser Marshall (1899 - 1948)

Bop Drummer
  • Art Blakey (1919 - 1990)
  • Philly Joe Jones (1923 - 1985)
  • Max Roach (1924)
  • Roy Haynes (1926)
  • Kenny Clarke (1929 - 1985)
  • Dannie Richmond (1935 - 1988)

Post Bop

  • Sam Woodyard (1925 - 1988)
  • Elvin Jones (1927)
  • Arthur Taylor (1929 - 1995)
  • Louis Hayes (1937)
  • Roy McCurdy (1936)
  • Mickey Roker (1932)
  • Al Foster (1944)
  • Alan Dawson (1929 - 1996)
  • Jimmy Cobb (1929)
  • Billy Higgins (1936)
  • Pete LaRoca (1938)

Cool Jazz
  • Shelly Manne (1920 - 1984)
  • Joe Morello (1928)
  • Jimmy Cobb (1929)

Avantgarde
  • Ed Blackwell (1929 - 1992)
  • Paul Motian (1931)
  • Rashied Ali (1935)
  • Beaver Harris (1936 - 1991)
  • Sunny Murray (1937)
  • Andrew Cyrille (1939)
  • Barry Altschul (1943)
  • Famoudou Don Moye (1946)
  • Steve McCall (1933 - 1989)
  • J. C. Moses (1936 - 1977)
  • Clifford Jarvis (1941)
  • Milton Graves (1941)
  • Charles "Bobo" Shaw (1947)

Jazz-Rock

  • Bobby Colomby (1944)
  • Billy Cobham (1944)
  • Tony Williams (1945 - 1997)
  • Alphonze Mouzon (1948)
  • Lenny White (1949)
  • Bill Bruford (1949)
  • Peter Erskine (1954)
  • Simon Phillips (1973)
  • Roy Brooks (1938)
  • Dennis Charles (1933 - 1998)
  • Jerome Cooper (1946)
  • Joe Chambers (1942)

80er & 90er Drummer
  • Jeff Watts
  • Jack DeJohnette (1942)
  • Omar Hakim (1959)
  • Adam Nussbaum (1955)
  • Cecil Brooks III
  • John Vidacovich
  • Cyndi Blackman (1959)
  • Terri Lyne Carrington (1965)
  • Marvin Smitty Smith (1961)