Drums Collection

Joe Morello, London, 1968. Creator: Brian Foskett
Joe Morello, London, 1968

Drummer Gene Krupa
United States: c. 1947 Jazz drummer and compser Gene Krupa playing the drums

Drummer Louie Bellson and his big band playing at the Forum Theatre
Drummer Louie Bellson and his big band in concert at the Forum Theatre, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 7 November 1979

Ronnie Verrell on drums at The Fairway, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, 1991. Artist
Ronnie Verrell on drums with the Sound of 17 Big Band at The Fairway, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, 22 December 1991

Buddy Rich, London, 1967. Creator: Brian Foskett
Buddy Rich, London, 1967

Illustration, jazz band, six men wearing bow ties and waistcoats playing trumpet, trombone, drums, clarinet, banjo and double bass, front view

View of Tulloch Castle, Scotland, with pipers
View of Tulloch Castle in the town of Dingwall in the Highlands of Scotland, at the time of a royal wedding between Dom (Prince) Miguel of Braganza (1878-1923), Duke de Viseu

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Bandsman, Piper and Drummer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Date: circa 1908

Elvin Jones, c1968. Creator: Brian Foskett
Elvin Jones, c1968

Ringo Starr smokes a cigarette at the drums as the Beatles perfo
Ringo Starr playing the drums as the Beatles play at the Prince of Wales Theatre 1964

Poster, Trinidad and Tobago Tourist Board, designed by H Woolhiser. circa 1950s

Various musical instruments

Buddy Rich, Premier Drums Clinic, London, 1967. Creator: Brian Foskett
Buddy Rich, Premier Drums Clinic, London, 1967

Elvin Jones and his Jazz Machine, Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, USA, 1997

Sri Lanka - Geta Beraya and Udekkiya players
Traditional Sri Lankna drums and drummers. The standing player is holding a hill country drum called the Geta Beraya (a drum with a knot)

Wayne Shorter, London, 1976. Artist: Brian O Connor
Wayne Shorter, London, 1976

Billy Higgins and David Williams, Ronnie Scott s, Soho, London, Sep 1993

Two kittens with a drumkit
Unusual Friends - two kittens with a drumkit. 1950s

Steady the Drums and Fifes, 1811. Colour photolithograph after Lady Butler, published 1960 (c)

A group of Cameron Highlanders
A group of Queens Own Cameron Highlanders

Grenadier Guards at St Michaels Mount
The 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards visit St Michaels Mount, West Cornwall

Drummer performing on a Japanese taiko drum at a festival in Kanagawa, Japan, Asia

Southwark Fair / Hogarth
Southwark Fair Various performers compete to attract the publics attention

Jack DeJohnette, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 1989. Creator: Brian Foskett
Jack DeJohnette, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 1989

Art Blakey, Ronnie Scotts, London, 1984. Artist: Brian O Connor
Art Blakey, Ronnie Scott s, London, 1984. Art Blakey, also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader

The Count Basie Orchestra in concert at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 18 July 1980: Count Basie (piano), Cleveland Eaton (bass), Freddie Green (guitar), Gregg Field (drums)

George V presenting colours to Irish Guards
King George V presenting new colours to the Irish Guards at Buckingham Palace

Persian musicians
Three seated Persian musicians, playing a hand drum, what looks like a daf and a kamanche. A tonbak, or goblet drum, lies discarded on the ground. Date: 1870s

The Dixieland Jazz Band, c. 1919 Date: c.1919

Jonsi of Sigur Ros Live From Jodrell Bank Transmission Jonsi of Sigur Ros Live From Jodrell Bank Transmission

Actress Helen Mirren wearing a fishnet tights portraying character of fairground stripper Juy 1975

Janissaries and the parade musicians arriving, from Sur-Nama (vellum)
REV287791 Janissaries and the parade musicians arriving, from Sur-Nama (vellum) by Turkish School

The 1st Battalion The Green Howards marching in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, to exercise their right and privilege as freemen of the town. 28th February 1981

Actress Katy Wild beating an old African drum which is made into a chair © Mirrorpix

Ben Riley, BBC TV Recording Jazz Goes to College Cambridge, 1966. Creator
Ben Riley, BBC TV Recording " Jazz Goes to College" Cambridge, 1966

Drums of the Royal Marines Band Service
The drums of the Royal Marines Band Service. The Royal Marines Band Service is world renowned for the quality of its music, visual splendour and meticulous attention to detail on parade

Meat Loaf in concert, Penwith Rock Festival, Cornwall
Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday, b. Marvin Lee Aday, 1947), American rock musician and actor, performing on stage with a female singer at the Penwith Rock Festival in 1983. Date: 1983

Devil Dancers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Devil Dancers of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with drummers. Date: circa 1890s

Steve Gadd, North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands, 1992. Creator: Brian Foskett
Steve Gadd, North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands, 1992

Tony Williams, Jazz Café, London 1991. Creator: Brian Foskett
Tony Williams, Jazz Cafe, London 1991

The Beatles - with stand in drummer Jimmie Nicol - return to London Heathrow Airport after 3 day tour of Denmark & Amsterdam

The Count Basie Orchestra performing at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 18 July 1980

London Trade Card - William Bull, Musical Instruments - trumpets, kettledrums, French horns, speaking trumpets, hearing horns for deaf people, powder flasks

Australian Ladies Pipe Band - World Tour - souvenir of the visit of the band under Drum-Major William Darwin F.R.G.S. and Pipe-Major Jessie Young

Midhurst Grammar School Cadets
Marching Band, 1939 George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: Garland N18437

Oil barrels. Oil products are obtained from crude oil, which is oil from the ground before it has been refined

Hawaiian women dancing the hula, 1800s
Hula-hula performed by Hawaiian natives, mid-1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Sitar and tabla player beside the Ganga River, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Asia

Lord of Misrule C1600
THE LORD OF MISRULE leading the villagers in a festive procession

The Dave Clark Five, English pop group Date: 1964

The Bee Gees whose first UK tour opens at the Royal Albert Hall, London 27th March 1968. They will be accompanied by a 67 piece Symphony Orchestra, a hugh choir & the RAF Apprentices Marching Band

Max Roach, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 1996. Creator: Brian Foskett
Max Roach, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 1996

Max Roach, Royal Festival, Hall, London, 1989. Artist: Brian O Connor
Max Roach, Royal Festival, Hall, London, 1989

A group of Persian musicians
A group of four Persian musicians playing their instruments. 1818

Keith Moon, drummer of The Who rock group, on parade with an Army Cadet Corps in North London

British soldiers on the Western Front, northern France, First World War, 1916, (c1920). After the Capture of Lesboeufs: British troops returning, headed by their fifes and drums

Art Blakey Sextet, Jazz Expo, London, 1968. Creator: Brian Foskett
Art Blakey Sextet, Jazz Expo, London, 1968

Drummer Ginger Baker performing at the Forum Theatre, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 1980
Drummer Ginger Baker performing with his band Energy at the Forum Theatre, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 18 January 1980

The Count Basie Orchestra in concert, c1950s. Artist: Denis Williams
The Count Basie Orchestra in concert. Sonny Payne on the drums

US Army Jazz Band, 1914-18 (b / w photo)
XOS937893 US Army Jazz Band, 1914-18 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); 12.7x17.8 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: African American jazz band during World War I at Camp Upton)

Firefighters in action, Mitcham, Surrey, WW2
Firefighters in action following a flying bomb incident in Western Road, Mitcham, Surrey, where drums of amyl acetate were involved

Drummer in a Pancha Thuryas Kandyan dance orchestra at tourist show in the Kandyan Arts Association Hall, Kandy, Sri Lanka, Asia

Boys Band at Hollybrook Cottage Homes, Southampton
The boys band at Hollybrook cottage homes at Shirley Warren, Southampton. The homes were opened in 1911 by the Southampton Union to accommodate pauper children away from the workhouse

Dancing Bears - Constantinople, Turkey
Two attendants/musicians with their dancing bears, performing on their hind legs in Constantinople, Turkey

Boy playing a Japanese taiko drum video game at a game center, Japan, Asia

Birthday card, The Beatles caricature - Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Date: circa 1964

Siege of a medieval castle. Knights in armour, archers and soldiers on ladders storm a castle defended by soldiers throwing rocks and boiling oil

Greetings card, Jazz drummer on timpani (kettle drums). 20th century

Ringo Starr of The Beatles on stage at the Palais des Sport in Paris. June 1965

Harry Bence playing the saxophone at the Forum Theatre, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 1984
Harry Bence, bandleader of the New Squadronaires, playing the saxophone at the Forum Theatre, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 1984

Music cover, Our Love Affair, Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland
Music cover, Our Love Affair, words and music by Arthur Freed and Roger Edens, from the MGM film Strike Up The Band, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. 1940

Monkeys playing music

Types of drums

Tribal paintings on the walls. Sundarbans National Park, Tiger Reserve. West Bengal, India

Africa, Benin, Grand Popo. Zangbeto ceremony in heve

Stop on the walking line. The English infantry rests on the side of the road
BL5327884 Stop on the walking line

Rite of human sacrifice on the Society Islands, after James Cook, bound victim, drum, wooden frame, village with thatched houses, natives, palm trees, nature, ceremony, cult, cruel death

Fish, fish, genus of the family of umber fish, Sciaena macrolpidota, Ophiocara macrolepidota, great scaled umber, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Fish, fish, genus of the umber family, Sciaena diacantha, the two spined umber, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Fish, fish, genus of the umber family, Sciaena cirrosa, the Bartumber, the bearded Umber, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Fish, Fish, Genus of the family of Umberfishes, Sciaena punctata, Morone punctata, punctulated Umber, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Fish, fish, genus of the umber family, Sciaena plumieri, striped umber, Plumier's umber, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Fish, Fish, Corvina nigra, genus of the umber family, Sciaena nigra, black umber, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Fish, Fish, Striped bass, genus of the umber family, Sciaena lineata, lined umber, rock bass, banded umber, lineated umber, Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, Historical

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Rhythm and Beats: A Journey through the World of Drums" Step into the captivating world as we embark on a musical odyssey that transcends time and borders. From the iconic Buddy Rich in London, 1967 to the mesmerizing Elvin Jones in Scotland, 1968, captured by Brian Foskett's lens, these legendary drummers have left an indelible mark on music history. Immerse yourself in the enchanting view of Tulloch Castle, Scotland, resonating with the soul-stirring melodies of pipers. Witness Joe Morello's electrifying performance in London, 1968; his rhythmic prowess echoing through every beat he strikes. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders take center stage alongside various musical instruments, creating a symphony that reverberates deep within your core. The Grenadier Guards at St Michaels Mount showcase their precision and discipline while wielding their drums with unwavering expertise. Travel across continents to witness Jack DeJohnette's spellbinding performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, 1989. Brian Foskett captures every moment as if freezing time itself. Experience Elvin Jones and his Jazz Machine igniting passion at Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, USA - a testament to how drums transcend cultural boundaries. Steady the Drums and Fifes echo through history as they march forward with resolute determination. Sri Lanka beckons us with Geta Beraya and Udekkiya players who transport us to another realm with their hypnotic beats. Finally, let us not forget Southwark Fair immortalized by Hogarth where vibrant drumbeats mingle with joyous revelry – reminding us that they can not just instruments but conduits for celebration and unity.