Not Alone is a database of solo percussion recordings, as a means to bring to light the work of percussionists in the realm. By no means is this list complete, if you have recordings you have released or know of recordings that should be on this list, please email us here - not alone
This page is for Max Roach. Though not the first solo percussionist, it is hard to dispute that Max is the father-figure of the medium. With love and respect.
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Pheeroan akLaff
House of Spirit Mirth (Passing Thru Records) 1983?
Joey Baron
Live at the Knitting Factory volume 2 (one track on a compilation)
Tim Barnes
All Acoustics (Quakebasket) 2002
Gregg Bendian
Definite Pitch (Aggregate Music AGCD001) 1994
Research (Tiny Useful Secrets) (Aggregate Music AGCD005) 2008
Han Bennink
Solo (ICP 011) 1971
Nerve Beats (UMS/ALP202CD) 1973
Tempo Comodo (Data 183) 1982
Solo (ICP 027) video 1990
CAICAI (Angelica 004) 1993 solo on one track
Solo (ICP 035) video 2000
Terry Bozzio
Jerome Bryerton
Artship Recordings (deck gear closet) disc 13 2002
Gary Burton
Alone At Last (Atlantic Jazz)
Michael Carvin
Explorations 4: Drum Concerto at Dawn (Mapleshade) 1996
Kenny Clarke
(solo track Nows The Time)
Alex Cline
Not Alone (Ninewinds 0107) 1982
Jerome Cooper
The Unpredictability of Predictability (About Time AT-1002) 1978
In Concert: From There To Hear (Mutable Music 17506-2) 2001
Pierre Courbois
Myria Poda (Universe Productions HOT 109) 1973
Perpetuum Mobile (Vara Jazz 201) 1981
Independence (Timeless SJP 188) 1983
Chris Cutler
Solo (ReR CC1) 2002
Andrew Cyrille
What About
The Loop (Ictus Records 0009) 1978
Warren "Baby" Dodds
Talking & Drum Solos (Folkways Records) 1946
Brad Dutz
Krin (solo on several tracks) (Interworld CD 919) 1995
Making Ice (solo on one track) (Truemedia Jazzworks) 1997
Pierre Favre
Drum Conversation (Calig)
Abanaba (Futura)
Portrait (Unit Records UTR 5004) 1997
John French
O Solo Drumbo (Avan 024) 1998
Milford Graves
Grand Unification (Tzadik)
Stories (Tzadik)
Fritz Hauser
Solodrumming (Hat(now)ART 129) 1985
Pensieri bianchi (HatART 6067) 1990
on time and space (self-released) 1999
flip (celestial harmonies) 2007
STILLLIFES (Direktverkauf) 2008
Gerry Hemingway
Solo Works (Auricle Records AUR-3) 1982
Tubworks (Sound Aspects 022) 1988
Acoustic Solo Works (1983-94) Random Acoustics 016 1996
Electro-Acoustic Solo Works (1984-95) Random Acoustics 017 1996
Hallelujah Anyway (tribute to Tom Cora compilation, including solo performance of "Tom Wood") Tzadik 1999
Steve Hubback
Be Alright When I'm Dead (Dossier Records) 1986
The Quest (Spoof Records) 1994
Best Kept Secret (FMR Records) 2002
Trees Rocks and Ravens (Utech Records) 2005
Ambiance de la Cave a Vin (Utech Records) 2006
Nathan Hubbard
Born On Tuesday (Circumvention Music) 2002
Blind Orchid (Accretions Records) 2008
Susie Ibarra
flower after flower (solo on two tracks) (Tzadik) 2000
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Putting On Dog (Celluloid, Knit Classics)
Ryan Jewell
Sven-Ake Johansson
Schlingerland/dynamische Schwingungen ( ) 1972
Jo Jones
The Drums
Donald Knaack
Cage/Duchamp (First Recordings) (Atlantic/Finnadar Records) 1977
Dance Music (RRRecords) 1982
Junk Music (Moo Records) 1998
Junk Music2 (Moo Records) 2004
Glenn Kotche
introducing (Quakebasket/Locust) 2002
next (Quakebasket) 2002
Mobile (Nonesuch Records) 2006
Paul Lytton
The Inclined Stick (Potorch)
Phillip Wachsmann/Paul Lytton (ECM) (solo on several tracks)
David Moss
Terrain: Solo Percussion & Voice (CPE 007) 1980
My Favorite Things (Intakt CD 022) 1991
Moss Tales (Edel 0014502TLR) 1996
Sogna Suite (Atopos - may not have been released) 2003
Paul Motian
Conception Vessel (ECM) solo on one track
Don Moye
Sun Percussion Volume 1 (AECO Records 001) 1975
Douglas Ovens
Seven Improvisations For Solo Percussion (North/South Recordings) 2004
Tony Oxley
Ichnos
February Papers
Tomasz Stanko Quartet / Matka Joanna From the Angels (ECM 1544) (solo on one track) 1995
Paul Bley Chaos (Soul Note 121285-2) (solo on several tracks) 1998
Eddie Prevost
Material Consequences (Matchless Recording MRCD48) 2001
Entelechy (Matchless Recording MRCD67) 2006
Max Roach
Survivors (Soul Note)
Frank Rosaly
Milkwork
Gino Robair
Other Destinations (Rastascan Records)
Gino Robair Live on the Artship (3" CDr) (cargo hold number 9) disc 13 2002
Singular Pleasures (Rastascan Records)
Detlef Schonenberg
Nothing To Get Home About (SAJ)
Plays Drums (FMP) 1974
Warren Smith
Cats Are Stealing My Shit (Mapleshade)
Karen Stackpole
Artship Recordings (cargo hold number 9) disc 15 2002
Gonging My Life Away (Choppydisc Records 33)
Metalwork (Limited Sedition LS204)
Christopher Tree
Spontaneous Sound (Spontaneous Sound)
Dreamweapon: Aspen No. 9 Winter Spring (8" Flexidisc) (excerpts from At The Cathedral)
Spontaneous Sound (Cardas Records) 1998
At The Cathedral Of St. John The Divine (Quakebasket) 2002
Matt Weston
Tony Williams
Spring (Blue Note) (solo track Echo)
Edward Vesala
I Am Here (Blue Master Special 311) 1973
Stomu Ya'mashta
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