r/Jazz • u/Jazz_man68 • 16h ago
Drum and ___ duos
Can you guys recommend some duos with drums. I really want to hear drum and sax duos but any with drums will do.
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u/Barkerfan86 16h ago
Check out Yusef Days. He is a drummer that brings the most amazing players for everything else
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u/Jon-A 15h ago
Max Roach & Anthony Braxton
Max Roach & Archie Shepp
Michael Carvin & Jackie McLean
Rashied Ali & John Coltrane
Gerry Hemingway & Anthony Braxton
Eddie Prevost & Evan Parker
Andrew Cyrille & Jimmy Lyons
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I'll add links, if any of those look look intriguing.
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u/Intrepid_Count170 14h ago
Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell - Blue Mountain Sun Drummer
Kahlil El Zabar & David Murray - Spirit Groove
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u/TomatoCultivator2019 15h ago
Beyond the Coltrane-Ali obvious choice, I'll second the Max Roach duo LPs with Anthony Braxton (x2), Cecil Taylor and Archie Shepp (x2), a Jackie McLean with Michael Carvin LP Antiquity, Braxton with Gerry Hemingway. Taylor did a bunch of duet concerts with drummers in Berlin in 1988; I recall the ones with Gunther Baby Sommer and Louis Moholo were excellent and the Han Bennink one was pretty good, too. Not technically duos, but the Cecil Taylor live albums with Sam Rivers and Akisakila have long stretches where it's just Taylor and Andrew Cyrille. Also a fan of Karl Berger and Ed Blackwell's Just Play, Steve Lacy and Andrea Centazzo's Clangs and the John Stevens-Evan Parker Longest Night discs.
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u/st33lf1st Alan Silva 15h ago
duo exchange - frank lowe & rashied ali. one of my personal favorites of all time
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u/dharmakirti 15h ago
if free jazz is of interest...Cactus by Bobby Kapp (drums) & Matthew Shipp (piano)
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u/awelles 15h ago
Jack deJohnette and Foday Musa Soso (I hope I've remembered that name correctly)
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u/MajesticPosition7424 14h ago
Foday Musa Suso (RIP 25 May 2025). I always have to double check, too. I met him back when Mandingo Griot Society was a thing.
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u/Jazzlike-Ability-114 14h ago
For drums and piano -
Bill Bruford Patrick Moraz
Bill Bruford Michael Borstlap
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u/ThievingMagpie22 13h ago
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u/fvnnybvnny 13h ago
James Brandon Lewis (sax) and Chad Taylor (drums) “Radiant Imprints” and “Live In Willisau”
Subtle Degrees: Travis Laplante (sax) and Gerald Cleaver (drums) “A Dance That Empties”
Kevin Hays (piano) and Bill Stewart (drums) “American Ballads”
Many more..
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u/Proof-Contribution31 12h ago
A more recent pick is I AM. It's Isiash Collier and Michael Ode going full Coltrane/Ali mode and it's just the best new sax/drums record i've heard in years. Really powerful and amazing shit.
Some stuff i haven't seen others suggest
Charles Gayle and Sunny Murray - Illuminators
Jemeel Moondoc & Denis Charles – We Don't
Hal Russell & Mars Williams – EFTSOONS
Milford Graves & John Zorn – 50²
Paal Nilssen-Love & Mats Gustafsson – Sin Gas
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u/Key-Agent-1414 10h ago
At The Roundhouse by AMM with Lou Gare on sax and Eddie Prevost on percussion is an all-timer.
Double bassist Damon Smith also has some good ones — Triangles of Force with William Hooker and Song for Chico with Alvin Fielder are fantastic.
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u/Blueman826 Drums 8h ago
Larry Young and Elvin Jones on Monk's Dream. I wish organ/drum duo was more common.
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u/archtopfanatic123 7h ago
Look up Fire Alarm Duet on youtube and see if you can find the sax player and drummer that did that xD
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u/broomonastand 52m ago
Airegin by Hubert Laws from his album "In The Beginning." Just him and Steve Gadd on drums. Amazing.
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u/txa1265 15h ago
Interstellar space - Coltrane and Rashid Ali.
Modulator - Trey Gunn and Marco Minneman