Jimmy Cobb Quartet – Cobb’s Corner (2007)

2011-12-08T19:38:03Z

Jimmy Cobb Quartet – Cobb’s Corner (2007)


1. You And The Night And The Music
2. My Romance
3. Never Let Me Go
4. John Charles
5. My Foolish Heart
6. I May Be Wrong					play
7. Lotus Blossom
8. Book’s Bossa
9. Ruby My Dear						play
10. My Ship

Personel:
Jimmy Cobb – (drums)
Roy Hargrove – (trumpet)
Ronnie Mathews – (piano)
Peter Washington – (bass)

The legendary jazz drummer, Jimmy Cobb, is a superb, mostly self-taught musician and is the elder statesman of all of the incredible Miles Davis bands. Jimmy's inspirational work with Miles, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly and Co. spanned 1957 until 1963, and included the masterpiece "Kind of Blue", the most popular jazz recording in history. On this album he leads a stellar quartet made up of the brilliant trumpeter Roy Hargrove, pianist Ronnie Mathews and bassist Peter Washington. The programme mostly features a selection of standards including "You and the Night and the Music", "My Romance" and "Lotus Blossom".

This us a recording that would have been less surprising had it been issued in, say, 1960, but seems a minor miracle these days. It features a compatible quartet playing mainly standards with subtlety, sophistication and understated feeling. The drummer and leader, Jimmy Cobb, is ideally alert and adroit.

Roy Hargrove, a trumpeter who often seems like a brilliant soloist in search of a suitable idiom, has seldom sounded more at ease than he does here - creating wonderfully tender versions of "Never Let Me Go" and "My Foolish Heart". The underrated pianist Ronnie Mathews is on serene form, too. The single-microphone sound-engineering creates the illusion that you are in the middle of the band - which, in this case, is a delightful place to be. --- contempo.jazz (San Francisco/London), amazon.com

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb is perhaps most famous for his role as the backbone to Miles Davis's best albums, but the unstoppable Cobb is also an excellent band leader in his own right, as evidenced in his latest release for Chesky Records, Cobb's Corner. This recording captures the Jimmy Cobb that jazz listeners who've followed his long, gratifying career expect. Cobb's Corner finds Jimmy filling out his rhythm section with legendary New York pianist Ronnie Mathews and renowned bassist Peter Washington. The chief soloist on the record is Roy Hargrove, perhaps the most versatile and surefire trumpeter to emerge in the wake of Wynton Marsalis. The musician's fortright embrace of American standards, their personal interpretations of delectable melodies and their collective, highly interactive improvisations make this a must have for any jazz aficionado. This super audio compact disc was recorded using Chesky's state of the art minimalist miking techniques to create an outstanding addition to any audiophiles collection. --- hdtracks.com

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Jimmy Cobb ‎– This I Dig Of You (2019)

2020-12-04T13:54:36Z

Jimmy Cobb ‎– This I Dig Of You (2019)


1 	This I Dig Of You 	5:46
2 	Blood Wolf Moon Blues 	6:51
3 	I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 	6:38
4 	My Old Flame 	4:58
5 	Cheese Cake 	7:05
6 	Edward Lee 	8:03
7 	Somewhere In The Night 	6:22
8 	Yesterdays 	6:35
9 	I'll Wait And Pray 	8:13
10 	Full House 	6:17

Bass – John Webber
Drums – Jimmy Cobb
Guitar – Peter Bernstein
Piano – Harold Mabern

Is there a ride cymbal more integral to solid groove-making on more jazz recordings and performances than the one(s) played by drummer Jimmy Cobb, the last surviving musician from the sessions for Miles’ Kind of Blue? Cobb, also heard with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane, and Cannonball Adderley over the decades, creates a special kind of graceful, creative, forward-moving swing when he locks in with a bassist and rhythm section (as I discovered firsthand, playing with the master trappist at a 2000 memorial concert for Nat Adderley in Florida).

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.

As a soloist, Cobb shines most when he’s most in the moment, directly responding to rhythmic and harmonic ideas tossed up by bandmates, as during the trading-bars sections on the title track, a fast-moving hard bop tune by Hank Mobley, and “Yesterdays,” a Cobb favorite. His deft touch as a ballad player enlivens “My Old Flame,” and he reinvigorates two tunes for which he drummed on the original recordings: Wes Montgomery’s bluesy “Full House,” one of several showcases for Bernstein’s agile, sometimes provocative soloing, and the Coltrane-associated “I’ll Wait and Pray.”

Bernstein’s laidback “Blood Wolf Moon Blues,” which features a particularly buoyant improvisation by Webber, is the sole new original on the album, which also includes Mabern’s soul-jazz gem “Edward Lee,” in honor of Lee Morgan. Of This we dig. ---Philip Booth, jazztimes.com

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