All great entries above....+1 on all of them.
A few more suggestions;
- Don't know if you can qualify them as a 'solo' performance per se, but every member of ONDEKOZA is at virtuoso level on their individual parts.
Any album by them qualifies as among the 'best drumming' performances....
- Kim Hok Man, "Master of Chinese Percussion"
- And finally, without a doubt, IMHO, anything by Neil Peart from RUSH!!! In particular his many iterations of the drum solo from "Working Man" over the years, his playing on Cygnus X-1 (both parts across 2 albums), Bytor and the Snowdog, La Villa Strangiato, Xandau, 2112, Tom Sawyer, YYZ,...the list goes on and on. What he does, how he plays and the orchestra-like 'force of one' he demonstrates blows me away every time.
As an aside,...if you have not read Peart's book "Ghost Rider, Travels on the Healing Road", I would highly recommend it. A very deep, touching and immersive read,...
A few more suggestions;
- Don't know if you can qualify them as a 'solo' performance per se, but every member of ONDEKOZA is at virtuoso level on their individual parts.
Any album by them qualifies as among the 'best drumming' performances....
- Kim Hok Man, "Master of Chinese Percussion"
- And finally, without a doubt, IMHO, anything by Neil Peart from RUSH!!! In particular his many iterations of the drum solo from "Working Man" over the years, his playing on Cygnus X-1 (both parts across 2 albums), Bytor and the Snowdog, La Villa Strangiato, Xandau, 2112, Tom Sawyer, YYZ,...the list goes on and on. What he does, how he plays and the orchestra-like 'force of one' he demonstrates blows me away every time.
As an aside,...if you have not read Peart's book "Ghost Rider, Travels on the Healing Road", I would highly recommend it. A very deep, touching and immersive read,...