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Oh, hands down Tony, Ron, and Herbie. They were an unbeatable team and it's unfortunate Tony has passed, because the musicianship between the three of them never was or will be surpassed. I have learned so much about playing jazz by just listening to those three together. It doesn't matter who else they were playing with, whether it was Miles/Wayne, Wayne/Freddie, George Goleman/Freddie, just Freddie, Wynton Marsalis... well I could go on for about a page but you get the idea... they were always amazing and never ceased to use every ounce of musicianship within themselves at every moment of their playing. There have been (and are) other great rhythm sections, like the aforementioned Standards Trio, and of course Paul Chambers/Jimmy Cobb/Bill Evans of Kind of Blue (my personal favorite of that era is the rhythm section of Milestones, with Paul, Red Garland and Philly Joe Jones), but no three (or four or five or six) musicians have ever been as amazing both technically and musically as Tony, Ron, and Herbie. To me, they are THE rhythm section.
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