Drummer Jimmy Cobb will touch in Brazil in May, São Paulo

The North American musician Jimmy Cobb, 79, have an enviable resume. He touched with great figures of the jazz, as Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans and Billie Holiday, but costuma to be mentioned as the baterista of cultuado " Kind of Blue" , album of the trompetista Miles Davis (1926-1991) that it more withholds the record heading of jazz vendido of all the times. " If Miles could know that `Kind of Blue' if would become so famous, would have demanded two the least one or Ferraris as advancing for gravá-lo" , the baterista veteran says.
The album more than had 3 million vendidas copies only in U.S.A., according to Nielsen SoundScan, that started to survey these numbers in 1991. Last remainder of sexteto that it recorded " Kind of Blue" , beyond other records of Miles Davis and of the saxofonist John Coltrane (1926-1967), Cobb will come the São Paulo for a commemorative concert of the 50 years of this masterpiece of the jazz, in the second edition of the festival Bridgestone Music, of 14 the 16 of May, in Citibank Hall.
The album also will gain edition special. Turnê. The concert " Kind of Blue 50" already it is set appointments for some of the biggest North American festivals, as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage and the Playboy Jazz. Clubs and festivals of the Europe and Japan also will be part of this turnê. Cobb, that in years 70 was in Brazil with Sarah Vaughan, will have its side of this time Alone the What Band. Sexteto detaches musicians of prestige in the scene of the jazz: the trompetista Wallace Roney (recognized disciple for proper Davis), Vincent Herring (sax high), Javon Jackson (sax tenor), Larry Willis (piano) and Buster Williams (low).
" I tried to make as Miles made when forming its groups. I congregated some of the best musicians of jazz in momento" , Cobb says, observing that, to choose the partners, it still took in account the affinity of them with the styles of Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Paul Chambers, musicians of sexteto of Davis.
This, however, does not mean that it and its colleagues plans to reproduce note for note the today classic writings of " Only What" , " Freddie Freeloader" , " Blue in Green" , " All Blues" e " Flamenco Sketches" , that they integrate the mythical COMPACT DISC " Kind of Blue". " Beyond homaging my friend Miles Davis, our intention is to bring the spirit of those writings for the days of atuality" , it finishes the North American drummer.
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