Biography

A superb, mostly self-taught drummer, Jimmy Cobb has been a dominant accompanist and outstanding soloist. He approaches the drum kit in both a melodic and percussive fashion, never playing overly long or rambling solos. He's known for working slightly ahead of the beat, and has anchored many fine sessions as well as spending five years with Miles Davis in the '50s and '60s. Cobb did study briefly with Jack Dennett, a percussionist with extensive symphonic credentials. He played with Charlie Rouse, Leo Parker, Frank Wess, Billie Holiday, and Pearl Bailey in Washington, D.C. . Cobb left in 1950 to join Earl Bostic, and cut his first recordings with him. He played with Dinah Washington over three years, then worked with Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, and Dizzy Gillespie. He took over for Philly Joe Jones in the Davis band in 1958, and was on hand for several seminal dates. He finally left, along with Paul Chambers, to team with Wynton Kelly. The trio played and recorded with Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and J.J. Johnson before it disbanded. Cobb played on the soundtrack for the film Seven Days in May, and later worked with David Amram. He worked with Sarah Vaughan through the '70s, and was featured on a public television film of a Vaughan concert at the Wolf Trap Jazz Festival. Cobb also worked with Richie Cole, Sonny Stitt, Nat Adderley, and Ricky Ford. During the '80s he worked with the Joe Albany trio.

For all his session work from the '50s onward, Cobb was not particularly known as a leader on his own dates, and rather extraordinarily began developing his own discography in earnest beginning during the late '90s and extending across the first decade of the 2000s, starting (after 1994's Encounter, a duo release with singer Ada Montillanico) with Only for the Pure of Heart by Jimmy Cobb's Mob in 1998. A second Cobb's Mob album, Cobb's Groove, was released by Milestone in 2003. Tribute to Wynton Kelly & Paul Chambers by the Jimmy Cobb Trio was issued by the Japanese Sound Hills label in 2004, followed by two Chesky releases by the Jimmy Cobb Quartet, Cobb’s Corner in 2007 and Jazz in the Key of Blue in 2009. In addition, the Marsalis Music Honors series released a Jimmy Cobb volume in 2006, featuring Cobb on drums along with Ellis Marsalis on piano, Andrew Speight on saxophone, and Orlando Le Fleming on bass. Cobb received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award in October 2008.

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1.	Minor Blues	Original Mob (feat. Peter B..	7:14	$1.29
2.	Nobody Else but Me	Original Mob (feat. Peter B..	5:32	$1.29
3.	Unrequited	Original Mob (feat. Peter B..	8:25	$1.29
4.	Old Devil Moon	Original Mob (feat. Peter B..	8:09	$1.29
5.	There Is Something About You (I Don&..	Marsalis Music Honors Jimmy..	5:56	$0.99
6.	Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme Fro..	Marsalis Music Honors Jimmy..	7:31	$0.99
7.	Eleanor (Sister Cobb)	Marsalis Music Honors Jimmy..	6:11	$0.99
8.	Medley: Autumn Leaves, What's Ne..	Jazz Journeys Presents the ..	6:22	$0.99
9.	Theme	Jazz Effect - Stan Getz	3:30	$0.99
10.	On Green Dolphin Street	Jazz Effect - Stan Getz	8:55	$0.99
11.	Walkin'	Jazz Effect - Stan Getz	7:17	$0.99
12.	Medley: Autumn Leaves, What's Ne..	Jazz Effect - Stan Getz	6:22	$0.99
13.	Riverside	Jimmy Cobb's Mob	6:48	$0.99
14.	Ma Turk	Jimmy Cobb's Mob	6:16	$0.99
15.	Smile	Jimmy Cobb's Mob	5:58	$0.99
16.	Gingerbread Boy	Jimmy Cobb's Mob	4:46	$0.99
17.	Stars Fell On Alabama	Jimmy Cobb's Mob	4:03	$0.99
18.	Only for the Pure At Heart	Jimmy Cobb's Mob	6:07	$0.99
19.	Say Little Mama Say	Jimmy Cobb's Mob	5:51	$0.99
20.	Delilah	Jimmy Cobb's Mob	8:07	Album Only
21.	Alone Together (From "Turning Po..	Turning Point / Free	7:34	$0.99
22.	Dear Kathy (From "Turning Point&..	Turning Point / Free	4:49	$0.99
23.	Masquerade Is Over (From "Turnin..	Turning Point / Free	4:40	$0.99
24.	How Am I to Know? (From "Turning..	Turning Point / Free	3:50	$0.99
25.	I'm Getting Sentimental Over You	Luminous	5:29	$0.99

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