What makes a good drum set for jazz?

A Jazz set is tasty and a Rock set is powerful. A rock drummer needs power and projection. He'll grab his thick sticks and go for big deep toms (12x12,14x14,16x16,18x18) and one or more fat bass drums (20-28"), and a thick metal snare l(14x6). read more

Back to drums: jazz drums used to be quite large when the bands were big, loud, popular, and well paid! Bass drums were even bigger than John Bonham's 26" monster. But that changed out of necessity and fashion. read more

2 DW Drums . All the other companies make great gear. However, the attention to detail that goes into EVERY DW Drum kit, is what makes the difference. John Good, has come up with some amazing ways to get drums to sound the way everyone wants them to. They are VERY pricey (my new 7 piece, drums only, comes to $5,000 - and I got a screaming deal). read more