yeah...and hell, Tony Williams and Wayne Shorter still play with Herbie from time to time...and keep noted, that also Sonny Rollins was left off and both Sonny and Herbie still tour...

Totally agree, but you forgot chet Baker, how can you guys forget chet baker!!!!

personally my favorites are

eric dolphy
antonio carlos jobim
stan getz

and squarepusher when he's not being all whacked out noise/experimental industro/techno

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I have some great Eric Dolphy/John Coltrane recordings... Really great stuff...

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i've got them together on one track of 3 on a live recording from the village vanguard from 61... i'm kinda happy that my mom didn't get rid of my dad's old records hehehe...

another squarepusher fan eh? I bet you love "Music is rotted one note" and "budakhan Mindphone"...and even some of "Burningn'n Tree"

actually i'm kind of ingnorant towards most electronic music... i know what i like when i hear it but i just don't know many names... i've heard 'music is a rotted one note'... but i think my favorite album so far is 'hard normal daddy'... i think my favorite track is probably 'lambic poetry' and the squarepusher theme is pretty good too...

yeah...Hard Normal Daddy is number one electronic album of the 90's actually...

Iambic 5 Poetry is on "Budakhan Mindphone" and Squarepusher Theme is on "Feed Me Weird Things"...I think his weakest work was the "Maximum Priest" EP, but it had a great Yee-King and Wagon Christ remix on it

I can't believe that Art Blakey is up there, but not Buddy Rich! Shame on you Psychedelic Syd! So, I guess I'd have to say...Miles Davis.....Even though I was gonna say Buddy Rich. Buddy ran his band with an iron fist. He could play thousands of notes per minute with any arm or leg. The only man who's ever mastered the drums. He was playing a snare in the circus when he was 2!!

Buddy was a great man...he played up to his death and he didn't mind it! Possibly one of the best drummers of all time