Here's a tip from my mentor who's a jazzer: make your warm up by doing triplets (contant flow on the snare) with your hands, 2 and 4 LF and accents with the bass drum. when you go to the toms, make sure to play two notes on each tom (I also suggest playing your kit like it's a 4 piece, as this will make those notes seem like 16ths). More basically, you MUST be able to paradiddle in triplets. Basically triplets, triplets, triplets.
Check out what Tony Williams does on Han****'s Maiden Voyage, there are 15 really great ideas in this one song (here's the whole album cause Tony be killing it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hckwsnp_I
I'm a huge fan of Art Blakey, his version of Caravan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDbgLJt50ss and Night in Tunisia are drummer delights! This is a live version of Night, prefer the album version however:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IQNPlnc9c0
In mainly the '70's, I would go to NYC and jam in some of the after hours clubs. I got to jam with Freddie Hubbard 1 night on Cherokee and Blakey's Alamode.
Finally, my second favorite piece of music ever, my church music, Love Supreme. Elvin doing lots of very interesting stuff,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clC6cgoh1sU
I don't agree listening to jazz helps you being able to play it. I am only able to do basic simple simon stuff with jazz and I listen to a lot of it.
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