Jimmy Cobb is a legend on the drums and one of the few musicians from the golden age of jazz music that has survived until today and today is active and from his legendary time Miles Davis report to know.
"A lot of guys, when they finally get a chance to step onto the bandstand, they try and play all the stuff they've practiced all week - Whether it fits the context of that tune or not. But did you see, I have a lot of patience, and I do not do. everyone I just try and get with the bass player and have it swing and make it come out how would like it. I was always an accompanist. I played with a lot of people and tried not to be in the way, to prop things up and make things sound good. I mean, when they first started making bebop records, everyone would play their asses off for like two choruses and be in and out of the whole damn tune in under three minutes."
- Jimmy Cobb (Drums)
The legendary drummer Jimmy Cobb was born on 20 January 1929 in Washington DC, USA.
His first recordings as a musician Jimmy Cobb made with saxophonist Earl Bostic. The list of musicians with whom Cobb is long due to playing together and go from Dianah Washington and Billie Holiday, Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie to Wynton Kelly, Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell. A very close musical connection used Cobb to Sarah Vaughn, with whom he worked alone for 9 years. Even with the musicians got to know how John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis at the Cobb, Jimmy Cobb has worked in the heyday of jazz, the late fifties and early sixties closely together. Even for the American President Jimmy Carter Cobb played once again. His career to date is really quite amazing.
His most significant appearance in his music career was the participation in the legendary Miles Davis quintet of the fifties and recordings, together with Davis, most notably "Kind Of Blue" , one of the most famous and best selling boards in music history, or in other records like "Sketches of Spain", "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "Porgy and Bess." The background, as Cobb met with Miles Davis is a little bizarre. In front of him filled Philly Joe Jones on drums in the place of Miles' band, has been chastened by his drug addiction for Davis this increasingly unreliable. He often appeared not to appearances, and then much too late. Davis upset the after some time and therefore decided to throw them out of the band and replaced him for Cobb, who won by his good rapport with Cannonball Adderley Davis' attention. When he got the call from Davis, the band played, two hours later was back in Boston, and Cobb was still in New York. So he hastily packed up his drums and went directly to Boston, where he took a taxi and the same zum Club kam, wo die Band schon auf ihn wartete. Als er eintrat hatte man schon ohne ihn angefangen, doch Cobb schraubte sein Schlagzeug zusammen und stieg ein.
Die Beziehung zu Miles Davis sollte daraufhin bis Anfang der Sechziger (genauer gesagt bis 1963) halten, bis er zusammen mit Wynton Kelly und Paul Chambers die Band verließ und mit den beiden ein Trio gründete. Seine Zeit bei Davis gehört jedoch ganz klar zu einer der besten in seiner Karriere.
Jimmy Cobb ist aus dieser Ära um Miles Davis herum der Einzige, der noch am Leben ist und regelmäßig auf Auftritten oder CD-Aufnahmen meist jüngerer Musiker zu sehen ist. Alle anderen, ob Miles Davis selbst, John Coltrane , Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers or are all already dead. But even though many musicians because of their drug addiction early deaths (for example, Charlie Parker at the age of 35 years or Paul Chambers at the age of 34 years) continued his career successfully Cobb continued after his spectacular appearance in Davis' band.
His first recordings as a musician Jimmy Cobb made with saxophonist Earl Bostic. The list of musicians with whom Cobb is long due to playing together and go from Dianah Washington and Billie Holiday, Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie to Wynton Kelly, Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell. A very close musical connection used Cobb to Sarah Vaughn, with whom he worked alone for 9 years. Even with the musicians got to know how John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis at the Cobb, Jimmy Cobb has worked in the heyday of jazz, the late fifties and early sixties closely together. Even for the American President Jimmy Carter Cobb played once again. His career to date is really quite amazing.
His most significant appearance in his music career was the participation in the legendary Miles Davis quintet of the fifties and recordings, together with Davis, most notably "Kind Of Blue" , one of the most famous and best selling boards in music history, or in other records like "Sketches of Spain", "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "Porgy and Bess." The background, as Cobb met with Miles Davis is a little bizarre. In front of him filled Philly Joe Jones on drums in the place of Miles' band, has been chastened by his drug addiction for Davis this increasingly unreliable. He often appeared not to appearances, and then much too late. Davis upset the after some time and therefore decided to throw them out of the band and replaced him for Cobb, who won by his good rapport with Cannonball Adderley Davis' attention. When he got the call from Davis, the band played, two hours later was back in Boston, and Cobb was still in New York. So he hastily packed up his drums and went directly to Boston, where he took a taxi and the same zum Club kam, wo die Band schon auf ihn wartete. Als er eintrat hatte man schon ohne ihn angefangen, doch Cobb schraubte sein Schlagzeug zusammen und stieg ein.
Die Beziehung zu Miles Davis sollte daraufhin bis Anfang der Sechziger (genauer gesagt bis 1963) halten, bis er zusammen mit Wynton Kelly und Paul Chambers die Band verließ und mit den beiden ein Trio gründete. Seine Zeit bei Davis gehört jedoch ganz klar zu einer der besten in seiner Karriere.
Jimmy Cobb ist aus dieser Ära um Miles Davis herum der Einzige, der noch am Leben ist und regelmäßig auf Auftritten oder CD-Aufnahmen meist jüngerer Musiker zu sehen ist. Alle anderen, ob Miles Davis selbst, John Coltrane , Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers or are all already dead. But even though many musicians because of their drug addiction early deaths (for example, Charlie Parker at the age of 35 years or Paul Chambers at the age of 34 years) continued his career successfully Cobb continued after his spectacular appearance in Davis' band.
course, own recordings were not long in coming and may Cobb today show a total of 5 albums as a leader well-chosen music together. These albums are "Cobb's Groove," "Cobb Is Back In Italy "," So Nobody Else Can Hear "," Yesterdays "and" Only For The Pure Of Heart ".
Jimmy Cobb is also one of the few drummers of that time are still alive. Only Max Roach, Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes with him survived the time and are still active today. Whether Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Papa Jo Jones, Art Taylor or Philly Joe Jones, unfortunately, all those excellent musicians are already dead and therefore Cobb with a large part of jazz history with it.
And today is Jimmy Cobb This amazing career as a musician by playing with more and more young musicians and his experience can speak. This list is also longer than the previous one, and goes to Michael Brecker to Jon Faddis. Cobb also regularly toured the U.S. and will be out in July (on 21 and 22 July 2006) for a few days in Germany, where it will then show Jazzkeller Frankfurt his mad skills.
Jimmy Cobb is also one of the few drummers of that time are still alive. Only Max Roach, Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes with him survived the time and are still active today. Whether Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Papa Jo Jones, Art Taylor or Philly Joe Jones, unfortunately, all those excellent musicians are already dead and therefore Cobb with a large part of jazz history with it.
And today is Jimmy Cobb This amazing career as a musician by playing with more and more young musicians and his experience can speak. This list is also longer than the previous one, and goes to Michael Brecker to Jon Faddis. Cobb also regularly toured the U.S. and will be out in July (on 21 and 22 July 2006) for a few days in Germany, where it will then show Jazzkeller Frankfurt his mad skills.
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