Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, who played on Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue,' has died at age 91
Kind of Blue
remains an unparalleled jazz landmark, and Cobb’s shimmering cymbal work and feather-light pulse helped the album achieve its otherworldly sense of cool.Billboard in 2019. “He trusted all of us because he knew we were all good musicians. He didn’t really have to do anything else but say what he wanted done. One time he tried to tell me something about playing the drums with both hands, and I turned to him said, ‘Um, let me play the drums!’ But we were good friends, so I could say things like that to him without worrying about getting fired.”, and a string of albums from John Coltrane, including his influential 1960 record, in 1983.
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