musical drummers...who are they ???

airto
tony williams
elvin jones
mickey hart
steve gadd
danny carey (tool)

Billy Cobham!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Billy Higgins was the most musical drummer I've heard. I've never seen another drummer who could match riffs with other musicians as well as him.

I think that drummers who can carrie a melody:

Bruford, Simon Phillips (who also recorded with Mike Oldfield and Jon Anderson), Stewart Copeland, Phil Collins back in the day..Billy Cobham can, but in acoustical jazz he tends to overhit.

the young drummer called Thomas Lang

Another jazz drummer... but he has some of the biggest ears of any drummer I have heard. To me, a musical drummer can lay down a groove when needed or add a sense of lyrical conversation to a piece. He can really tell a story. His work with the Bill Evans trio is a fine example, as well as his solo projects from the past two decades.