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https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Jimmy-Cobb-Kind-of-Blue-drummer-for-Miles-15293593.php

 

He lived a good long life, but still, even at 91, lung cancer is no way to go.

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Even though people are waxing nostalgic over his participation on "Kind of Blue" - and rightly so, the best selling Jazz record in history - this is my favorite record of him playing with Miles "-- Live at the Blackhawk" vols. 1 &2

 

RIP ! What a legacy he leaves !

 

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Jimmy Cobb was the man who made me realize that swing is in the quarter note, not the eighth note. I wish I could remember who pointed that out to me, that Cobb plays so many less skip beats than Philly Joe and still swings so hard.

 

Obviously, Kind of Blue gets the majority of the attention, but like Mr. Ferris I love the Blackhawk sets as well as the Joe Henderson sets from Keystone Korner (Four! and Straight No Chaser).

 

I guess this just leaves Roy Haynes as a drummer from the first bebop/early post-bop generation?

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Even though people are waxing nostalgic over his participation on "Kind of Blue" - and rightly so, the best selling Jazz record in history - this is my favorite record of him playing with Miles "-- Live at the Blackhawk" vols. 1 &2

 

RIP ! What a legacy he leaves !

 

 

 

I had a client, a jazz pianist and retired teacher I did recording and consulting for, who was living in San Francisco in the early '60's and attended every night of Miles' run at the Blackhawk, said it was the greatest experience of his life in jazz. This same client, one day we were talking and he was trying to remember the name of a sax player, and he said, "You know, the new guy that played with Miles." Turns out he meant Wayne Shorter.

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Definitely; the Blackhawk sets were the pinnacle of the Miles Davis group of that era, and so lucky are we to have the expanded sets available for some time now vs. the meager offerings of the initial vinyl release. I think this might have been the first time I heard "If I Were a Bell" that I really GOT what that song had to offer! And wow, it was almost 13 minutes long!

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