Hmmm not sure a single cymbal beat would indentify anything for me, but within 2 or 3 beats certainly. (And at a pop quiz I once identified a song from the audience noise before the band started, to much amazement from my team.)

I have turned on the radio and caught a track mid-solo and identified the artist from something about the tone or the approach to the music. Given your adopted name I am surprised you didn't mention the most easily identifable of the lot, Thelonious Monk.