'Kind of Blue' jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb dies: US media
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'Kind of Blue' jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb dies: US media
In this file photo taken on July 20, 2012 US drummer Jimmy Cobb performs during the 47th Heineken Jazzaldia, in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian. Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, who played with Miles Davis on the 1959 album "Kind of Blue", one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, died on May 24, 2020 at the age of 91, NPR reported on May 25. Rafa RIVAS / AFP.



NEW YORK (AFP).- Jimmy Cobb, the drummer on Miles Davis's 1959 jazz classic "Kind of Blue" -- revered by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time -- has died aged 91, US media reported Monday.

His wife Eleana Cobb said the musician died on Sunday of lung cancer at home in Manhattan, according to broadcaster NPR and other outlets.

"He was a very special and unusual person -- a gifted musician with natural talent, like an athlete," she told the New York Daily News.

Cobb had been the last surviving member of the sextet who recorded "Kind of Blue" over two days in a converted church in New York.

Led by Davis at the height of his career on his crisp and soulful trumpet, the group included saxophone legends John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, and bassist Paul Chambers.

In a 2009 interview with AFP, Cobb said Davis had only told the group what he wanted after they arrived at the Columbia Records studio.

"It was just something Miles had on a slip of manuscript paper," he said.

Most of it was done in one take, "because that's what Miles liked. If you keep doing it over it gets to be stale a little bit. He figured your first shot is your best shot."

"Kind of Blue" was another venture by Davis into modal jazz -- which emerged in the 1950s and in which improvisations are based on scales, or modes, rather than a sequence of chords, allowing more freedom of melodic expression.

Rolling Stone magazine placed the record at number 12 on its most recent list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Cobb had already been with Davis for more than a year and had previously played with Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington when the album was recorded.

But none of the group had any notion they were creating jazz history, he said in 2009, when he was still touring the globe playing jazz.

They only began to realize the record was "something special" when it was still selling well one year after its release in August 1959.

The late music critic Robert Palmer called "Kind of Blue" a "monument to sheer inspiration and creativity".

"Every solo seems to belong just as it is... 'Kind of Blue' flows with all the melodic warmth and sense of welcoming, wide-open vistas one hears in the most universal sort of song."


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