Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over several periods, influenced by jazz at large and the individual drummers within it. Stylistically, this aspect of performance was shaped by its starting place, New Orleans, as well as numerous other regions of the world, including other parts of the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa.
Max Roach (1924–2007), one of the pioneers of modern jazz drumming during the 1940s bebop era
The Old Plantation (late 1700s), illustrating some slave traditions
Image of Sonny Greer with his drum set, which included timpani among other accessories
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The drummer typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks or special wire or nylon brushes; and uses their feet to operate hi-hat and bass drum pedals.
Japanese heavy metal drummer Yoshiki's drum riser at Madison Square Garden
A pair of drumsticks held in traditional grip.
Snare drum on a modern light-duty snare drum stand
Keith Moon of The Who with a mixture of concert toms and conventional toms, 1975
