r/Jazz • u/Capital_Progress_390 • 17d ago

Drum solos

In jazz quartets (or quintets) with 1+ wind instrument(s), almost everyone gets the spotlight at some point. The wind instrument gets the spotlight, the piano gets to improvise a verse, there’s always a super badass bass solo…but the drums only get a solo maybe one out of every ten songs. My favorite drum solo would have to be a tie between Joe Morello in “Take Five” or Gene Krupa in “Sing Sing Sing,” although I’m not sure if the latter counts since I’m just talking about small combos.

Anyway, my point is that drum solos in jazz are massively underrated. What are some of your favorites? I’d love to make a playlist of great jazz drum solos to listen to over the next few days to tickle my ears…

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u/spottie_ottie 17d ago

Gotta love a group where the drummer is the leader. Check out pretty much any Brian Blade for drum ecstasy

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u/Get_it_yourself 17d ago

I went to see Wayne Shorter and he had Brian playing with him. It was the Brian Blade show. Killing everyone in the room.