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Jimmy Cobb, Drummer on Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue,’ Dies at 91 - The New York Times
May 26, 2020 1 min, 18 secs

Jimmy Cobb, a jazz drummer whose propulsive ride cymbal imbued countless classic recordings with a quiet intensity, including Miles Davis’s epochal album “Kind of Blue,” died on Sunday in Harlem.

The cause was lung cancer, according to his daughter Serena Cobb.

Cobb on drums — received warm reviews, but its immortality accrued only over time.

Cobb recalled.

Cobb — as “the gold standard for straight-ahead, postwar jazz rhythm.”.

Cobb’s 2014 album, “The Original Mob,” Nate Chinen took note of the “indefinable but unmistakable pull in the ride cymbal beat of the jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, who’s now 85 and sounds not unlike he did at 30.”.

Cobb a Jazz Master in 2009, the year he turned 80.

In addition to his daughter Serena, Mr.

His parents, Wilbur and Katherine (Bivens) Cobb, lived just blocks from U Street, which had recently become the center of the country’s most robust urban black middle class, as well as one of its greatest music scenes.

Cobb first went on the road with the saxophonist Earl Bostic, then joined the vocalist Dinah Washington’s band, which was as loaded with talented young instrumentalists as Mr.

Cobb began a romantic relationship and lived together for a time.

Cobb recalled.

Cobb packed his drums and hustled to La Guardia Airport

He caught a plane and arrived at the club just as the band was starting to play “’Round Midnight.”

Cobb set up his drums just in time to nail those hits

“When they got to this certain part,” he recalled, “I played this little break with them, and I was in the band

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