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Cobbs

Cobbs is a fusion jazz group hailing from Brooklyn, New York City. The group was founded in
early 2022 and is led by award-winning drummer Ben Friedkin. Completing the group are renowned keyboardist/pianist Julia Chen, innovative guitarist Omri Bar-Giora and virtuoso bassist Noam Tanzer.
Cobbs began as a tribute act to the fusion jazz greats, and overtime, through developing a
close musical connection within the band, shifted its focus to original music, with materials
written by all group members.
Their debut EP "First Attempt" (recorded live in Brooklyn) was released on November 2023.

Alfred Cobbs Said It

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 13, 2009

"See, what happened in that era, when we go to record, we go down to the studio. The man say, 'Okay, Jimmie [Lunceford, pictured], what you got?' 'Okay, I got this number, I got that number.' 'Good, let's record it.' Now those were numbers that we had played on the road, and numbers that we had gotten any good response to. New numbers, you know what I mean. So there we knew just what the public liked, what they wanted, ...
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