The Perfect Jazz Collection 25 Original Albums

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ART BLAKEY, MAX ROACH, BUDDY RICH, KENNY CLARKE, GENE KRUPA
Featuring: Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Burrell, Milt Jackson, Ray Brown and Horace Silver.

Gene Krupa (1909 – 1973) was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic athletic drumming style.
Many consider Krupa to be one of the most influential drummers of the 20th century and in 1978 he became the first drummer inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame.

Bernard 'Buddy' Rich (1917 – 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as 'the world's greatest drummer' and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove and speed.
Rich also served as the session drummer for many recordings, where his playing was often much more understated than in his own big-band performances.

Maxwell Lemuel “Max” Roach (1924 – 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop and worked with many famous jazz musicians including: Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown.

Arthur 'Art' Blakey (1919 – 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
Together with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming and known as a powerful musician. For more than 30 years his band the Jazz Messengers included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz.

Kenny Clarke (1914 – 1985) was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. He played with the major innovators of the emerging bop style; Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Curly Russell and others, as well as musicians of the prior generation, including Sidney Bechet. In 1988, he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.