solo albums by drummers

Buddy Rich’s ‘The Roar of ‘74’ kinda blew my mind last week - caused me to fall down the ever entertaining Buddy Rich YouTube hole ...

Ha, I tried listening to that the other day and just couldn’t do it. It felt like a salesperson was shouting at me, arranged for a big band.

Ultimately, the only Buddy Rich recordings I dig are the Lester Young Trio records with Nat King Cole, and the bus tapes.

I like this drum solo, which seems just discreetly tweaked by DJ:
https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/track/ecstatic-beat

Also wasn't some of Endtroducing turntables x live-in-the-studio drummer?

Never heard that, I thought the whole point is that it was all samples?

Re: Buddy, I just wrote this on Twitter today

it's become so fashionable to hate on him because he was a fucking asshole + didn't play especially cool music + and has become shorthand for showing off, that I think he's actually underrated in a weird way

— CHANTS (@ChantsWI) September 30, 2019

xpost maybe I'm thinking of a later album---doesn't he sometimes play drums, percussion?
New one due in November:
https://www.factmag.com/2019/09/23/dj-shadow-to-release-double-album-our-pathetic-age/

Stewart Copeland - "Rumblefish" soundtrack already mentioned, but also "The Rhythmatist"

In a similar English-drummer-in-Africa vein, Mick Fleetwood's "The Visitor"

Oh wait, Copeland's American. I'm an idiot.

Robert Wyatt's "End of an Ear" was what jumped into my mind when I read the thread title.

xpost maybe I'm thinking of a later album---doesn't he sometimes play drums, percussion?

Are you thinking of RJD2 maybe? He started with breaks, and then obsessively learned to engineer and play (and then sample) his own breaks to match the qualities of a nice & dirty '60s/'70s recording.