{"title":"Jimmy Cobb","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"jimmy-cobb-this-i-dig-of-you-cd","title":"Jimmy Cobb - This I Dig of You CD","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 700px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3529394703\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/jimmycobbsmoke.bandcamp.com\/album\/this-i-dig-of-you\"\u003eThis I Dig of You by Jimmy Cobb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e8-panel Digipak Album\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e“[THIS I DIG OF YOU] is a swinging affair, propelled by Cobb’s atomic-clock steady time feel and pristine touch on all his drum-kit components, not least the centered, resonant ride cymbal heard on iconic Miles Davis dates like KIND OF BLUE and IN PERSON: FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE BLACKHAWK, and classic sessions with Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughan, Cannonball Adderley, and Dinah Washington.”\u003cbr\u003e\nTed Panken, Downbeat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e“At 90, Cobb still has it, as he handily demonstrates on THIS I DIG OF YOU, leading and driving a quartet on an uncluttered, frills-free program dominated by standards, some of which he’s been playing for decades. For these warmly recorded, intimate-sounding recordings, he’s joined by several musicians with whom he’s previously collaborated: pianist Harold Mabern and two former students of Cobb’s at the New School in New York, bassist John Webber and guitarist Peter Bernstein.”\u003cbr\u003e\n— Phillip Booth, JazzTimes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e“Most of the headlines about drummer James “Jimmy” Cobb — in the wake of his passing at 91 last week, and in the past, too — speak of his many appearances on Miles Davis and John Coltrane recordings, including KIND OF BLUE and GIANT STEPS. Cobb’s work with those two titans earned him a spot in jazz history, but he was still writing his own story last year. His final album, THIS I DIG OF YOU, released on Smoke Sessions Records in 2019, featured the bristling guitar work of Peter Bernstein, a longtime member of Cobb’s quartet and his quintet, Cobb’s Mob.”\u003cbr\u003e\n— Phil Freeman, Burning Ambulance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eName a canonical jazz artist, and chances are Jimmy Cobb shared a stage or recording studio with them. Starting with his first recordings with Earl Bostic at the tender age of 21 all the way up to THIS I DIG OF YOU his final album as a leader. Cobb has been not just a jazz drummer but the jazz drummer — a musician unmatched in technique and experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e60 years ago, of course, Cobb played on what wound up becoming the most indelible record in jazz history, KIND OF BLUE. This recording, with a band of Cobb’s longtime collaborators — pianist Harold Mabern, guitarist Peter Bernstein, and bassist John Webber — pays tribute to that seminal album, in a way, by proving that classic mainstream jazz is not history yet. Cobb, who was 90 years old during the recording sounds as vital and thoughtful as he ever was as he swings through standards and contemporary compositions by his bandmates alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe album was recorded with a casualness that recalls the kind of sessions Cobb was booked for during the music’s heyday. “I let them pick the tunes,” Cobb says of his bandmates, who chose from the wide array of songs in the Cobb’s Mob repertoire while focusing on ones that they’d never recorded before. THIS I DIG OF YOU required no rehearsal, and was recorded in just one session.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBut the thing that makes the album so special isn’t the design of the tracklist — it’s the precision and detail the legendary drummer uses to carefully guide each song, responding to and amplifying the incredible soloists in his quartet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ereleased August 16, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ePeter Bernstein – guitar\u003cbr\u003e\nHarold Mabern – piano\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Webber – bass\u003cbr\u003e\nJimmy Cobb – drums\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eRecorded Live on February 7, 2019 at Sear Sound Studio C, NYC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eProduced by Paul Stache and Damon Smith\u003cbr\u003e\nRecorded, Mixed and Mastered by Christopher Allen\u003cbr\u003e\nStudio Assistant: Owen Mulholland\u003cbr\u003e\nPhotography: Jimmy and Dena Katz\u003cbr\u003e\nLiner Notes: Natalie Weiner\u003cbr\u003e\nDesign: Damon Smith and Paul Stache\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smoke Sessions Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56382103355774,"sku":"SSR-1905-CD","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/4161\/5230\/files\/SSR-1905-CD.jpg?v=1760095139"},{"product_id":"jimmy-cobb-the-original-mob-cd","title":"Jimmy Cobb - The Original Mob CD","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 700px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3168329211\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/jimmycobbsmoke.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-original-mob\"\u003eThe Original Mob by Jimmy Cobb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e8-panel Digipak Album\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e“Much has been made lately of the idea that jazz has to somehow eschew key elements of its identity to mature and advance itself. Cobb and crew create the kind of timeless and rewarding jazz that satisfies on so many levels and yet is accessible enough for even the most neophyte listeners. If that isn’t advancing the art form, then I don’t know what is.”\u003cbr\u003e\n— C. Andrew Hovan, All About Jazz, 11 July 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e“Cobb is a master with sticks and brushes, low-key but fully in control, setting tempo and rhythm. Mehldau is right in the groove as is Webber, who is a first-call bassist all the way, even in the Big Apple. But it is Peter Bernstein is the glue that holds the group together.”\u003cbr\u003e\n— John Sunier, Audiophile Audition, 8 June 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e“But here’s a quartet with the old drum master and three young musicians who revere his history with Miles Davis and in that great quartet with Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly…This is a master of his instrument with players he’s having a grand time with taking a role both prominent and creative as can be, without overwhelming anyone. Great multigenerational jazz.\u003cbr\u003e\n— Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News, 5 June 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eLegendary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb’ THE ORIGINAL MOB features three former students and longtime bandmates who have all become major artists themselves. Brad Mehldau, Peter Bernstein, and John Webber were just getting their own careers started when they approached their teacher, Mr. Cobb, about working together as a quartet. It wasn’t a hard sell, as Jimmy knew from experience that they were special talents. Soon after, they got some gigs as Jimmy Cobb’s Mob and the rest is history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eTHE ORIGINAL MOB is a swinging affair that includes two of Jimmy’s original compositions, and one each by Brad, Peter, and John. Cobb says, “it just sounds like us…like when we first started to play together years ago, but I remember like it was yesterday. I always enjoyed the way we played together.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ereleased June 10, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ePeter Bernstein – guitar\u003cbr\u003e\nBrad Mehldau – piano\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Webber – bass\u003cbr\u003e\nJimmy Cobb – drums\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eRecorded February 3, 2014\u003cbr\u003e\nat Smoke Jazz Club, New York City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eRecorded \u0026amp; Produced by Paul Stache\u003cbr\u003e\nCo-Produced by John Webber\u003cbr\u003e\nProduction Assistance by Roman Klun \u0026amp; Frank Christopher\u003cbr\u003e\nMixing by Roman Klun \u0026amp; Paul Stache\u003cbr\u003e\nMastering by Roman Klun\u003cbr\u003e\nPhotography by Jimmy Katz\u003cbr\u003e\nProduct Management \u0026amp; Design by Damon Smith\u003cbr\u003e\nPiano provided by Steinway \u0026amp; Sons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBrad Mehldau appears courtesy of Nonesuch Records\u003cbr\u003e\nJimmy Cobb endorses DW drums, Sabian cymbals, and Vater drumsticks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eExecutive Producers: Frank Christopher \u0026amp; Paul Stache\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smoke Sessions Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56382107844990,"sku":"SSR-1407-CD","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/4161\/5230\/files\/SSR-1407-CD.jpg?v=1760095300"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/4161\/5230\/collections\/SSR-1407-CD.jpg?v=1774385808","url":"https:\/\/8merch.shop\/collections\/jimmy-cobb.oembed","provider":"8Merch Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}