Jazz Drummer Jimmy Cobb, Who Played on Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue,’ Dead at 91

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, best known for backing Miles Davis on a string of iconic records, including 1959’s Kind of Blue, has died from lung cancer at age 91, NPR reports.Cobb, born in Washington D.C.

in 1929, began his touring career with saxophonist Earl Bostic in 1950.

This led to a cascading series of gigs with vocalist Dinah Washington, pianist Wynton Kelly, and saxophonist Cannonball Adderley.His most famous work arrived at the end of that decade: Along with Davis’ modal, melodic masterpiece Kind of Blue — which Rolling Stone named the

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