Spectacular Drum Set?

Art Blakey Drum Suite, 1956 re-issue on 180gram vinyl or if you are very lucky an original pressing in mint condition.

Big Pig album called BONK.From the mid 80's Awesome percussion album.Seven member band,six of whom are on some sort of percussive instrument.I also have some 45 rpm singles from them that have huge slamming sound on my apogee diva's.Also very cool moody music.One of my fave demo bands

1.Dennis Chambers on "Pick Hits Live" by John Scofield (fusion)
2.Steve Smith with "Vital Information" (fusion)
3.Carter Beauford produces great drum sounds for Dave Matthews
Don't overlook the various Jazz Festiival and performance DVD's as they generally cost just a few bucks more than cd's,but you get to see the performance.

Ditto on the Dennis Chambers, best drummer I heard.
He plays on Foreign Affairs & Front Page with Bireli Lagrene on lead guitar, outstanding.

More votes for Ed Graham Hot Stix and Dafos. Stunning on vinyl.

Forget Charlie Byrd on Crystal Clear: very dry and not necessarily realistic.

A couple others that come to mind:

Percussion Music on Nonesuch, on HP's list for a long time.

Drum Improvs, sort of an experimental CD-R of a few short cuts of a big drum set recorded live to hard disk by the performer. A little bit of mike splash but otherwise a shocker. Don't know if it's still available. Mail me for info.

Brian