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Jimmy Cobb

Jimmy Cobb

American jazz drummer
Acclaimed hard bop jazz drummer, best known for playing on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.Wikipedia
BornJanuary 20, 1929
HometownWashington, D.C., U.S.
SpouseAnn Porter, Dinah Washington
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Jimmy Cobb: Gifted jazz drummer for Miles Davis

  • Jimmy Cobb, the jazz drummer who helped drive Miles Davis’ masterpiece Kind of Blue, an album of transcendent lyricism and spontaneity that also became one of the top-selling jazz recordings of all time, died on 24 May at his home in Manhattan. He was 91.The cause was lung cancer, said his wife, Eleana Tee Cobb.
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