Bart Elliot... ever the entrepreneur...
Hell yeah, that would be cool. It would be very inspiring. Personally, I love playing with percussion players because of how much the patterns inspire me. Another thing... it would probably encourage young players to concentrate on and appreciate the value of GROOVE and pocket, of finding your space. That is, without a doubt, the lost gift in drumming today, IMHO. So it would be a great thing. It would also be a great learning tool in teaching odd times (because you could feel the "mantra" of it much easier with percussion than with a click) and polyrhythms (African 6:4 feels and the like). Also, you could take some of the mystery out of the gray areas between straight feels and triplet feels, as well as instruct on the transitions between the two.
The only area I could see a problem is in playing along with percussion which often doesn't establish the quarter note pulse. The phrasing in percussion often rests the quarter note, with lots of notes played on the "and" and the "a" and "e." Maybe you could have two takes of each example, the first with a click, the second without. "Now try it without the click..."
Anyway, you're probably not going for an educational CD, but that's what sprung to mind with me when you mentioned it.
