EDIT: I changed the topic name to include all early bop drummers.
Excellent documentary video on youtube,
Stan Levey - The Beginnings of BebopLevey playing with Diz, Getz, StittListen to him trades 8s with Getz @10:40 on Dizzy's composition 'Bebop"
Notice, Stan really is rat-tat-
A tatting the whole time at that speed, ~350bpm, for 13 minutes non-stop.
Few else could do that for that long, even in 1950.
He talks about the challenge of the speed in the video. The horns make it sound so easy.
1983, Wally's in Boston, Sunday afternoon jam:
Ron Savage (d) says to the leader Bud Revels (t) "What are we playing?"
Bud says "Just chang, chang-a-lang until the music stops."
Ron