Miles Davis’ companion: jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb is dead

The jazz drummer Jimmy Cobbwho, together with the trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991) recorded the legendary album “Kind of Blue” is dead. Cobb be in at the age of 91 new York died of lung cancer, said his widow Eleana tea Cobb the US broadcaster NPR. Until a few years ago Cobb still occurred frequently, but then there were increasing reports that he was ill.

The 1929 in Washington born Cobb played with many musical legends, such as, in the course of his decades of career Billie Holiday or Charlie Parker. For a time he was part of a sextet about trumpeters Davis, who recorded the album “Kind of Blue” in 1959, which is still considered a milestone in jazz history. Cobb, Father of two daughters, was the last survivor of this sextet.

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