Credits:

Various Artists

Description:

This is the second volume of "Rolling Jazz Drums," a long-running compilation of rare jazz drum masterpieces planned and selected by Tower and released in 2017. Like the first volume, every piece begins "with drums first" at the beginning. This second volume contains 40 tracks that "start with drums and continue for more than 5 seconds". Cymbals? Snare? Toms? The drummer has a lot of different ideas about which tone on the drum set the song will start with. After the intro, the song starts driving with a throbbing, groovy hard bop sound. The recordings are from the golden age of jazz, from the mid-50s to the early 60s, and include some of the greatest albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and others from the Prestige, Blue Note, and Riverside recordings of the mid-50s to the early 60s. The albums are carefully selected from a number of albums from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and others, to hidden masterpieces that will make jazz fans grin. The dynamic and varied performances by a total of 19 drummers are on parade, and there is even a track featuring a battle between drummers (the final track on Disc 1 and Disc 3, respectively).All songs are complete, no fade-out processing. Over 70 minutes on each disc. Jazz drums are cool!

Tracklisting:

1.Mil Dew / Max Roach
2.Move / Art Taylor
3.Sunday / Ed Thigpen
4.Midnight Mambo / Billy Higgins
5.Battery Blues / Philly Joe Jones
6.Hard Groove / Jimmy Cobb
7.Swingin Parisian Rhythm / Kenny Clarke
8.The End Of A Love Affair / Philly Joe Jones
9.Comin' Up / Art Taylor
10.Sneakin' Around / Roy Haynes
11.Scrapple From The Apple / Roy Brooks
12.Locomotion / Philly Joe Jones
13.Duet / Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich
14.Figure Eights / Buddy Rich and Max Roach