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Best Drum Solos

I'm finding that I've been REALLY enjoying drum solos on my system lately. They seem to work the whole speaker, from the kick drum in the woofers, to the tom-tom in the midrange, and the cymbals and high hats in the tweeters. And when it all comes together, they are the instrument I have the easiest time seeing in front of myself.

I searched the forums titles to see if there were any good drum solo discussions going on, but I didn't see any. So here we go. In no particular order, here are some drum solos I've found to be very high quality:

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Drum Thunder Suite
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Caravan
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Far More Drums
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
Max Roach - Max's Variations

What are your favorite drum solos to listen to on your system? 
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vinko
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Agree with John Bonham, Art Blakey, Santana 3 and the Sheffield Drum record. I would add the solo by Pierre van der Linden from the Dutch band Focus, on track Anonymous , album Focus 3: less showy than others but thrillingly effective in its context. Am also an admirer of Ian Paice from Deep Purple, some solos on the Made in Japan album are impressive.
statenbob
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I would like to add Ric Lee from Ten Years After. I saw them live a few times and he was under rated with all the attention going to Alvin Lee. As far as a recorded drum solo, Hobbit from TYA recorded Live should get a honorable mention along with Frosty who played with Lee Michaels.

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ghosthouse
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Too many great ones to call this "best", but certainly very, very good from Mr. Gadd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vrLAK_CZrY

If you get impatient, skip ahead to ~7:30



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bdp24
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Very, very good indeed, ghosthouse! Seeing and hearing Gadd play is a humbling, almost humiliating, experience.
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ghosthouse
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Very pleased you liked it, bdp. We can put aside our differences about Ginger and agree on Gadd. He seems on another plane altogether. I’m not a drummer but would say there is something about Gadd’s style that is very nuanced and almost delicate yet powerful without bashing. Kind of deceptive that way. And very very quick. I’m sure you see and hear more in it than I do. Humbling is okay. Got to have high goals to aspire to. That whole performance from all participants achieves an amazing level of excellence. Bears lots of re-watching.

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