A wonderfully delicate and inventive jazz pianist who led his own trio and had a famous stint with the Miles Davis Sextet in the late '50s and early '60s.
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.