Home » Search Center » Results: Jimmy Cobb
Results for "Jimmy Cobb"
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Cobb
All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Cobb's birthday today! Legendary jazz drummer, Jimmy Cobb, was born in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 1929. A superb, mostly self-taught musician, Jimmy is the elder statesman of all of the incredible Miles Davis bands. Jimmy\'s inspirational work with Miles, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly and Co. spanned 1957 until 1963, ...
First Tucson Jazz Festival features Bacharach, Reeves, Cobb, Childs, DeFrancesco, more
By Patricia Myers The HSL Tucson Jazz Festival, a 13-day event from January 16-28 will feature both national and Arizona musicians, headlined by 86-year-old composer Burt Bacharach, 85-year old drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb, and four 2015 Grammy-nominated musicians. Organist Joey DeFrancesco received a Best Jazz Instrumental nomination for Enjoy The View ...
Olivia Trummer: Threading Gold
by Ian Patterson
Singer/pianist and composer Oliva Trummer is spreading her wings. After four albums leading bands, the Stuttgart-born musician is venturing out as a solo artist, with her latest album Fly Now (Contemplate, 2014) garnering positive reviews internationally. Since appearing at 12 Points in 2013 Trummer has played with Jimmy Cobb and supported Charles Lloyd, while her 2014 ...
All of You: The Last Tour 1960
by C. Michael Bailey
The problem with Miles Davis' 1960 European Tours has been one of programming. First to know is that Davis toured Europe twice in 1960: the first time with John Coltrane, March 21st to April 109th, and then with Sonny Stitt from September 27th to October 13th. The second thing to know is not every performance of ...
The Original Mob
By Jimmy Cobb
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Old Devil Moon; Amsterdam After Dark; Sunday in New York; Stranger in Paradise; Unrequited; Composition 101; Remembering U; Nobody Else But Me; Minor Blues; Lickety Split.
Asian Jazz All-Stars Power Quartet at Ronnie Scott's
by Ian Patterson
Asian Jazz All-Stars Power Quartet Ronnie Scott's EFG London Jazz festival November 20, 2014 One of the most pleasing aspects of the EFG London Jazz Festival is its reach into the many jazz clubs dotted around the capital. Whilst the concert halls host the big names and draw the tourists ...
Jeremy Monteiro & Alberto Marsico: Jazz-Blues Brothers
by Ian Patterson
There can't be many bands with a piano and an organ in the front line. There are few better exponents of Hammond organ--actually a KeyB--than Alberto Marsico ("I've never heard anybody do it better than Alberto"--Joey DeFrancesco) while Jeremy Monteiro--widely considered as the best jazz pianist in Asia--has cut it with James Moody, Michael Brecker, Jimmy ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Blue
by Maurizio Comandini
Una domanda sorge spontanea: ma con questo Blue cosa volevano dimostrare? Il gruppo di Moppa Elliott si è scelto da subito un nome molto intrigante, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, che di sicuro non li fa passare inosservati. Poi, dal 2003, il quartetto ha cominciato un percorso artistico molto interessante che per certi versi fa ...
Jazz in the Catskills
As a native son of Woodstock NY, best known to many over the past five decades as the namesake of a rock music festival that was held 60 miles away as the crows fly, an announcement this week came as welcome news. A Woodstock Jazz Festival is scheduled the evening of October 4 at the Bearsville ...
Nat Adderley: A Player's Player
by Joan Gannij
This interview was originally conducted in 1997. I met Nat Adderley in San Diego, California in 1986 when I was working as a disc jockey at a jazz radio station and doing the PR for La Jolla Playhouse. We did an interview about a new production of a musical being revived at the progressive ...
