Drummers

The Drummer is the primary percussionist for a jazz combo. They play predominantly a drum set for Jazz and other Jazz subgenres, although they may also play bongos, or African Drums for 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. 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 drumming continued to evolve along with the music. In the 1970s and 1980s, jazz drumming incorporated elements of rock and latin styles.

Notable jazz drummers include:

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Brian Abrahams	Alex Acuña	Rashied Ali	Don Alias
Carl Allen	Barry Altschul	Leon Anderson	Steve Argüelles
John Armatage	Joe Ascione

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Colin Bailey	Dave Bailey	Donald Bailey	Ginger Baker
Newman Taylor Baker	Butch Ballard	Tom Bancroft	Louis Barbarin
Paul Barbarin	Danny Barcelona	Joey Baron	Ray Barretto
Ray Bauduc	Louie Bellson	Warren Benbow	Gregg Bendian
Tommy Benford	Han Bennink	Black Benny	Chief Bey
Jim Black	Cindy Blackman	Ed Blackwell	Brian Blade
Art Blakey	Johnny Blowers	Geoff Bowen	Tiny Bradshaw
Anthony Brown	Guillermo E. Brown	Bill Bruford	Larry Bunker
Dominik Burkhalter	Frank Butler

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Candido Camero	Terri Lyne Carrington	Michael Carvin	Sid Catlett
Nick Ceroli	Dennis Chambers	Joe Chambers	Jim Chapin
Dennis Charles	Jon Christensen	Kenny Clare	Mike Clark
Kenny Clarke	Gerald Cleaver	Jimmy Cobb	Billy Cobham
Vinnie Colaiuta	Cozy Cole	Clark Coolidge	Pierre Courbois
Tony Crombie	Stanley Crouch	Adam Cruz	Andrew Cyrille

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Quincy Davis	Roy Davis	Alan Dawson	Jack DeJohnette
Buddy Deppenschmidt	Frank Derrick	Whit Dickey	Baby Dodds
Bill Dowdy	Hamid Drake	Martin Drew	Buzzy Drootin
Joe DeRenzo

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Peter Erskine

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Chuck Flores	Al Foster	Vernel Fournier	David "Panama" Francis
Gerald French	Future Man

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Steve Gadd	Rich Galichon	Stéphane Galland	Alvester Garnett
Peter Giger	Paul Goldberg	Danny Gottlieb	Bobby Graham
Milford Graves	Rodney Green

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Omar Hakim	Dana Hall	Tubby Hall	Chico Hamilton
Jeff Hamilton	Jake Hanna	Eric Harland	Beaver Harris
Gavin Harrison	Billy Hart	Manfred Hausleitner	Louis Hayes
Roy Haynes	J. C. Heard	Albert “Tootie” Heath	Gerry Hemingway
Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez	Billy Higgins	Ari Hoenig	William Hooker
Stix Hooper	Gary Husband	Roger Humphries

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Susie Ibarra

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Ronald Shannon Jackson	Marcin Jahr	Clifford Jarvis	Dink Johnson
Gus Johnson	Elvin Jones	Harold Jones	Jo Jones
Philly Joe Jones	Rusty Jones

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Chris Karan	Manu Katché	Connie Kay	Phil Kelly
Johnny Klein	Gene Krupa	David King	Klaus Kugel

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Joe LaBarbera	Thomas Lang	Pete La Roca	Papa Jack Laine
Stan Levey	Torstein Lofthus	Mel Lewis	Paul Lytton

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Ray McKinley	William McKinney	Shelly Manne	Larance Marable
Jason Marsalis	Barrett Martin	Billy Martin	Harvey Mason
Marilyn Mazur	Butch Miles	Allison Miller	Charles Moffett
Louis Moholo	T.S. Monk	Airto Moreira	Joe Morello
Marty Morell	Paul Motian	Alphonse Mouzon	Idris Muhammad
Günter Müller	Don Mumford	Sunny Murray

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Lewis Nash	Adam Nussbaum	Paal Nilssen-Love

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Tiger Onitsuka	Tony Oxley	Ulysses Owens Jr.

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Earl Palmer	Sonny Payne	Paul Peress	Charlie Persip
Ben Pollack	Joe Porcaro	Shannon Powell	Richie Pratt
Bobby Previte	Bernard Purdie

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Alvin Queen

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Buddy Rich	Dannie Richmond	Alex Riel	Karriem Riggins
Ben Riley	Herlin Riley	John Riley	Max Roach
David Rokeach	Frank Rosaly	Jay Rosen	Hal Russell

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Antonio Sanchez	Aaron Scott	Kendrick Scott	Phil Seamen
Ed Shaughnessy	Pete Sims	Zutty Singleton	Marvin Smith
Matt Smith	Michael S. Smith	Steve Smith	Ed Soph
Stewie Speer	Ronnie Stephenson	John Stevens	Ragbaby Stevens
Bill Stewart	Alvin Stoller

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Tani Tabbal	Grady Tate	Art Taylor	Chester Thompson
Dave Tough	Paul Thibodeaux	Ed Thigpen	Cal Tjader

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Vinson Valega	Edward Vesala

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Chad Wackerman	Kenny Washington	Andrew Isaac Walker	Kobie Watkins	Jeff 'Tain' Watts
Chick Webb	Dave Weckl	Paul Wertico	Lenny White
Maurice White	Johnny Williams	Tony Williams

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Charles Xavier

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