Music that has good cymbals

Gomez, Bring it On. Excellent, excellent recording. Track 6 has some of the best cymbal crashes I’ve ever heard recorded. Also, several tracks feature excellent hi-hat and splash cymbal work. You won’t be disappointed by the deep toms and bass drum either.

Jim

Patricia Barber Companion cd track 7 "black magic woman".
Good track to evaluate the system in general. Drums, cymbals, bass, vocals, hammond B3, bongos. Very dynamic music.
Patricia Barber's Nardis on Cafe Blue is good too, but I think the recording on Companion is better.

MICHAEL CARVIN: Drum Concerto At Dawn from Maple shade label CDs has tremendous amount of cymbals (and of course drums)

The newest cd in my posession,Dick Hyman-From the Age of Swing has the best cymbal sounds of any of my collection.It is on Reference Recordings,is HDCD,and also the best recording quality overall of all of my cd,s.Even on other recordings when the ride,and or swish sound good,the hi-hat may not really sound very good,or be prominent enough to appreciate. On this one even the hi-hat is very prominent,and sounds excellent.IMHO,an excellent cd for determining cymbal quality sound of your sysdtem.

Pyramid - Modern Jazz Quartet. Cymbals recorded very well, piano sounds a bit muddy though.