• Instrumental music written by drummers is interesting because harmony (chords, melodies, vocal lines), which is what most listeners latch on to, takes a back seat
• Spotify's pocket playlist is good
• Tony Williams, who invented lots of the modern jazz rhythm idiom
  • Matteo Mancuso's trio does an amazing cover of the Holdsworth/Williams sound on Fred
• Nate Smith has many solo records but this is my favourite because it is his pocket distilled into half an hour of pure groove
  • Fearless Flyers is him as captain with small/medium/big guitar as crew
• Mehldau and Guiliana electronic(?!) concept album
• Jojo Meyer and Nerve sound like alien prog
• Cavs from King Gizz is taking on Danny Carey's mantle as cool toms guy
• Thomas Lang does crazy things with the double kick
• Marco Minnemann is simultaneously frantic and groovy
  • His power trio the Aristocrats is one of my favourite instrumental bands
• Billy Cobham, h/t Alexander Sullivan
• Tony Allen (afrobeat king), h/t Alexander Sullivan
• Gavin Harrison's jazz/prog solo project that riffs on Porcupine Tree songs
• Yussuf Dayes is a central part of the London jazz sound and syncopates like nothing else, h/t Ian Waugdby-Smith