Looking For High Quality Drum Music.

Howard is right on the money. Here is a second vote for Pierre Favre and
Singing Drums - Souffles. This is one of the best percussion recordings out
there and it is accesible. I also like Pierre Favre's recordings with Irene
Schweitzer (e.g. Ulrichsberg), but this Free Jazz mixture of piano and drums
might be not for everyone. Jazzloft.com has a couple or just look for the
INTAKT records distributor.

As a second recomendation for great percussion there is the best tabla-
player out there:

Zakir Hussein and the Rythm Experience

Enjoy!

Rene

Try looking up Scott Fitzgerald, Thunderdrums. A cross between native American and African percussion.

Try Oneness by Jack DeJohnette. Superb!

Dave Weckl can slap 'em pretty good too...

Here are a few;

Police Synchronicity Murder by Numbers (Stuart Copeland)
Tom Petty Wildflowers You don't know how it feels (Steve Ferrone)
Rush (most live stuff includes extensive drum solos by Neil Peart)
Average White Band Person to Person Live Album Pick Up the pieces (Steve Ferrone)

The above are just example of three very good drummers. The AWB album is not a great recording but has a great drum solo. Neil Peart also released a Drum Solo DVD "Anatomy of a drum solo" - if you like that kind of stuff Neil is a legend. Neil Peart is probably the best known drummer since Buddy Rich.
However, my all-time favorite has to be Steve Ferrone - check out all the bands that paid him to play with them, I believe he still plays for Tom Petty (anything Tom Petty has done is fanatically well recorded BTW). Steve makes small changes throughout that keep even the most repetitve rock sound soulful and interesting. I like Neil too but he makes you all too aware that he is drumming with a sometimes numbing precision.

Incidently, for comparison purposes....try Donald Fagen The Nightfly.....this abum has the orginal drumming replaced by splicing in a specific drum sound repetitively throughout....the effect is that the drums sound perfectly identical throughout....a precursor to electronic drum machines perhaps (like New Order, Human League etc.). Some find this precise and audiophile grade....I find the sound flat and lifeless (even if it is precise)

If you compare this kind of fare to Steve Ferrone then you really appreciate how drumming adds so much to the "life" of music.

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Steve_Ferrone.html