The most underappreciated drummer

Some other ones are Brainstorm's Jo Koinzer, Dedalus's Enrico Grosso, and-around PA-Dzyan's Peter Giger. These guys should be household words, they are so good!

A young player who I suspect is not yet as widely appreciated as he will be before long is Kenny Grohowski. I hadn't run across him until this year when I picked up two albums he drums on (Zorn's The Painted Bird and Rez Abbasi and Junction's Behind the Vibration). It seems to me that he's a genius, and a complete master of both jazz and metal idioms.

^ Those are some great suggestions Saperlipopette!

By coincidence I'm listening to Christensen now (on Garbarek's Afric Pepperbird). I was also lucky enough to see him play a small club a few years ago - The Vortex in London with Jakob Bro's band - and he was spellbinding to watch, playing on a smallish kit and frequently hitting the cymbals with his hands and fingers, something I don't recall seeing before. A true Zen master of percussion. Among European improvising drummers of that generation I'd mention Han Bennink in the same breath.

Edited by Mascodagama - January 02 2017 at 16:59

Dean wrote: The title of " the most underappreciated" is subjective at best and one persons opinion is no more valid than anyone else's. However, what is certain is this thread should be moved out of the main prog music lounge and into the "Prog Bands, Artists and Genres Appreciation" lounge where it belongs.

Everything is subjective, even this opinion. It is the very nature of any statement we utter.

IMO one i feel as of today a seriously underrated drummer today is Mick Tucker of the Sweet, whom is known of but regarding how ahead of the game he was in the 70s and the little that is spoken of him on forums like drummerworld, and sites like it. he is probably the most underrated powerhouse drummer -whom plays in a pretty famous band.

Edited by Icarium - January 02 2017 at 12:10

Whilst the O.P. is stating that the amazing Christian Burchard, drummer extraordinaire, of the German band Embryo, flies under the radar, many misread the topic and suggest other names. Well, I simply adore the Embryo albums I own (I do need to invest in more) but in my current Metallic state-of-mind - I'm re-discovering what I've missed out on, I'm being brought back to my 80's self, and I'm really loving Anthrax. The most melodic 'Thrash' pioneers from the classic 80's era. I see the usual Drummer names mentioned - Lars Ulrich (very good, not great), Dave Lombardo (fast, intricate and really pushing the drums a few steps further (though I've never been 'sold' on Slayer, not back then, not now.....) and, whilst Megadeth could never keep a band member for too long (thanks Dave), Anthrax (despite their suggestive 'nasty' name) are just brilliant.
Drummer Charlie Benante is superb. That's what happens when you're from New York............
My dream is to catch one of their gigs, in New York. It wouldn't get any better than this. Charlie is the most 'sensible' Thrash drummer there is, yet no-one talks about him.

Hi,

I guess that in prog and jazz fusion it's almost a prerequisite for drummers to be high calibre players, so talented rhythm sections are really commonplace. Unfortunately that leads people to become generally apathetic towards some really great technical players, unless they happened to be in popular groups.