Listening Leads

Drum & Percussion Heavy:

Los Munequitos De Matanzas Rumba Caliente 

Ephat Mujuru Rhythms of Life

Airto Moreira The Other Side of This

Billy Martin & G. Calvin Weston Percussion Duets

Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudolph Gift of the Gnawa

Steel Drum Festival 

Milford Graves Grand Unification

Obrigado Bateria

So Percussion Amid the Noise

 

An Incomplete Listening List (broadly aged by release date)

 

Newer… 

The Black Keys Attack and Release

Daniel Lanois Here is What Is

Nas Hip Hop is Dead

Radian Juxtaposition

Giant Sand Chore of Enchantment

Gilberto Gil Eu Tu Elles

Califone Roots and Crowns

Caetano Veloso Ce

American Beauty Soundtrack

Mice Parade Obrigado Saudade

Dead Combo Quando A Alma…

Bossacucanova Uma Batida Diferente

John Zorn Zevulun

 

Older… 

Boubacar Traore Classic Titles

Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder Talking Timbuktu

Sonic Youth Murray St. 

Rough Guide to West African Music

Tortoise TNT

John Lurie African Swim + Manny & Lo

U2 Achtung Baby!

The Cure Disintegration

Talking Heads Remain in Light

 

Older Still…

Mulatu Astatqe Ethiopiques Vol. 4

Larry Young Unity

The Meters Very Best of the Meters

The Beatles Revolver & Rubber Soul

Chet Baker The Best of Chet Baker Sings

Otis Redding The Very Best of Otis Redding

E.T. Mensah Day by Day

Jimi Hendrix The Ultimate Experience

Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding

Thelonius Monk Live in Paris

Miles Davis Bitches Brew

Caetano Veloso/Gilberto Gil Tropicalia 2

 

Some Drummers: 

Elvin Jones, Paul Motian, Ed Blackwell, Hamid Drake, Jim Black, Mitch Mitchell, Milton Banana, Kenny Wollesen, John McIntire, Billy Martin, Cyro Baptista, Zigaboo Modeliste, Robert Jospe, Kevin Davis, Adam Rudolph