Jazz Articles about Jimmy Cobb

Jimmy Cobb: Tough Guys & Stickadiboom

by George Kanzler
April 4, 2009

GenerationsTough GuysICA2008 Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy CobbStickadiboom ZoHo2009 Jimmy Cobb, the latest member of the jazz octogenarian drummers club (Charli Persip joins later this year), is the common thread on these two albums. A veteran who has played with everyone from the Adderley Brothers to Sarah Vaughan, Cobb is the lone surviving musician ...

Jimmy Cobb: Standard-Bearer

by Terrell Kent Holmes
May 10, 2007

One night in 2006, drummer Jimmy Cobb walked through the foyer of a New York jazz club with a lit stogie jammed coolly between his teeth. Someone standing in line for the next show wondered aloud if smoking was allowed in the club. Another patron waiting nearby figured that anyone who could survive the uncertainties of earning a living playing jazz for over a half-century, especially the last remaining member of the historic sessions that gave us Miles Davis' Kind ...

Honors Series: Jimmy Cobb and Michael Carvin

by Russ Musto
May 28, 2006

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Jimmy Cobb is one of the jazz world's true treasures, a man whose wealth of experience made his selection for the Marsalis Music Honors Series, in the words of label founder Branford Marsalis, a “no-brainer." Be that ...

Q & A with Jimmy Cobb

by WBGO 88.3FM
April 29, 2005

WBGO's afternoon Jazz host Michael Bourne sat down with jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb in March of 2005.Michael Bourne: How long have you been doing Jimmy Cobb's Mob?Jimmy Cobb: Well, it started out five, six, maybe more than that, years ago when I was doing an occasional teaching thing down at the New School of Music. I ran into all these guys—the members of the band. Peter Bernstein (guitarist) was going there at the time. And Brad ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

by Jim Santella
March 12, 2005

Columbia's latest release of this essential album includes the original liner notes by Bill Evans, a new liner note essay by Robert Palmer, a bonus track alternate take of “Flamenco Sketches," a 25-minute documentary DVD on Kind of Blue, and the original music itself. It sounds as good today as it did 46 years ago. In the words of television journalist and jazz devotee Ed Bradley, “It's as strong today as it was for me in ...

Jimmy Cobb's Mob: Cobb's Groove

by Jack Bowers
April 24, 2004

Some decisions are good, others bad, and a few are quite simply inspired, such as producer Todd Barkan's decision to invite tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander to join drummer Jimmy Cobb's Mob on its latest album, Cobb's Groove. I can picture the session as being a pretty good one without Alexander sitting in; with him, it rises far above that, moving toward the adjectival equivalent of superlative. And that's no knock on Cobb, pianist Richard Wyands, guitarist Peter Bernstein or bassist ...

Miles Davis and Sonny Stitt: Jazz Time: Olympia

by Samuel Chell
April 9, 2004

On page 249 of his autobiography, Miles Davis recounts driving around Philly with Jimmy Heath, recalling that he “probably was complaining to him about Sonny Stitt playing the wrong [stuff] on 'So What,' because he would always [mess] up on that tune."The marvel is that Miles called on Stitt to replace Coltrane in the first place. But Wayne Shorter wanted to stay on with Art Blakey, so the most complete and polished bebop player of them all, a ...