•Elvin Jones at the drum , who opened the door to the Free Jazz of Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp.

1960

1980

Nick Mason - Pink Floyd
•John Bonham drummer of Led Zeppelin, remain the most emblematic Rock drummer with a powerful game, an heavy and "at the far end of the time" strike.

The drums then enriched itself with toms and cymbals. The timbales, the gongs or the tambourine equally were often used, for example in the group Pink Floyd with the subtle Nick Mason at the drums.

In France, Christian Vander, Elvin Jones' musical heir, made his iron drums live, within his group Magma, by a powerful and always full of mysticism playing.

The 70's also saw the birth of Reggae music with a new beat, a new "groove"; the most imaginative drummer is without protests Carlton Barrett, that offered, with his brother Aston "Family man", a fantastic rhythmic to the mythical Bob Marley.

Stewart Copeland for his part created a superb play mixing Punk, Rock and Reggae within Police.

This is equally at first 70's that appeared the first forms of Rap and Funk musics, with among others The Last Prophets and the saga of Motown, editor of Steevie Wonder and many other American black artists.

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the establishment order : this is first John Coltrane, with the wizard

Elvin Jones has "jostled" the bars with a polyrhythmical and overpowerful playing but the drummers of Free Jazz such as Billy Higgins or Ed Blackwell did not break with a certain tradition.
Miles Davis, again him, put the bases of the Fusion trend, mixing Jazz and electric Rock. Billy Cobham is among the more skillful drummers to integrate both worlds in his drum play.

Airto Moreira constructed an almost perfect play of Jazz / Brazilian Music. Other drummers like Jack of Johnette or Steve Gadd, followed the way traced by Elvin Jones, while Tony Williams, who played with Miles Davis as early as the age of 16 years, showed his power within his band Lifetime.

The Rock evolved too, hardening itself to become the Hard Rock at the end of the 60's, with bands such as the Who (with the "highly charged" Keith Moon at the drums), the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple (where Ian Paice occupied the seat of the drummer).