Jimmy Cobb

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis · 1959

Jimmy CobbJimmy Cobbジミー・コブ is the sole drummer on Kind of BlueKind of BlueMiles Davis · 1959 (1959), playing all five tracks. Replacing Philly Joe JonesPhilly Joe Jonesフィリー・ジョー・ジョーンズ in the transitional period between Miles's first and second great quintets, he brought a lighter, more swinging approach.

— Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn, 2000

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis · 1959

Giant Steps

John Coltrane · 1960

Jazz in the Key of Blue

Jimmy Cobb · 2009

Kelly Blue

Wynton Kelly · 1959

Jimmy Cobb was the newcomer who had just replaced the previous drummer in Miles Davis's sextet. The Kind of Blue (1959) sessions were cut almost live off the sketches, with barely any rehearsal, and the result became the best-selling jazz album of all time.

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis · 1959

Kelly Blue

Wynton Kelly · 1959

Giant Steps

John Coltrane · 1960

Blue Spring

Kenny Dorham Septet Featuring Cannonball Adderley · 1959

Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb played as one of the great piano trios. But the bond ran deeper than the bandstand: when Chambers died in 1969, Cobb recalled, Kelly sank into heavy drinking — he had loved Paul — and Kelly himself was gone by 1971.

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Giant Steps

John Coltrane · 1960

In May 1959, Tommy FlanaganTommy Flanaganトミー・フラナガン played on John ColtraneJohn Coltraneジョン・コルトレーン's Giant StepsGiant StepsJohn Coltrane · 1960 session. His solo struggled to keep up with the unprecedented chord changes of the title track — a legendary moment Flanagan would later acknowledge as "an accident."

— John Coltrane: His Life and Music, Lewis Porter, 1998

Page One

Joe Henderson · 1963

Deciphering the Message

Makaya McCraven · 2021

Rollins Plays For Bird

Sonny Rollins Quintet With Kenny Dorham And Max Roach · 1956

Blue Spring

Kenny Dorham Septet Featuring Cannonball Adderley · 1959

Kenny Dorham died in 1972. Decades later, an unreleased Blue Note tape of his was unearthed and layered with a new rhythm section for the 2021 album Deciphering the Message, giving the performance its first release only after his death.

Deciphering the Message

Makaya McCraven · 2021

Bass on Top

Paul Chambers · 1957

Interplay For 2 Trumpets And 2 Tenors

Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, John Coltrane, Bobby Jaspar With Mal Waldron, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor · 1957

The Soft Land Of Make Believe

Frank Minion · 1960

Paul Chambers's name is stamped on a mountain of hard-bop sessions, the immovable anchor of the music. Yet when Kenny Burrell chose him for his 1956 debut as a leader, the reason was almost anticlimactic: "Paul was my student." In Detroit, the definitive bass had been the guitarist's pupil.

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