More Jimmy Cobb!

Further to last week's blog post, here's a few more items on the great Jimmy Cobb that I'd like to share with you today.

First, as a follow up to bassist Pat Collin's reflections on his own experience working with Jimmy Cobb, I asked Toronto pianist Mark Eisenman to do the same. Mark was kind enough to offer these words on playing and recording with Cobb back in 2003 (incidentally this is also posted on the new Four on the Floor YouTube channel!):

Thank you Mark!

Here's a few more links to check out:

- Rick Mattingly offers this memorial via the Percussive Arts Society website

- An older but great piece from WBGO, A Take Five Salute to Jimmy Cobb featuring many of his important recordings

- NPR recently published this obituary and also shared this 2013 performance of Cobb and his band, recorded live at New York's Village Vanguard:


- Bret Primack (aka "The Jazz Video Guy") offers this tribute to Jimmy Cobb, a 2006 trio performance with Mulgrew Miller and Buster Williams:



- And finally, here's a great clip of Jimmy Cobb in action with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and John Coltrane:



Thank you Jimmy Cobb!