Jazz Chops?
Tough question here (and I don't mean Davey Tough, also considered among the great jazz drummers)...
From what I have heard--and I emphasize heard, since I don't collect jazz albums--I'd give the nod to Art Blakey. Max Roach is a great drummer, but I have heard more of Blakey's work with the Jazz Messengers...
keep the beat goin' ... Don't keep it to yourself!
Charlie
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
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