Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb is dead. He died in New York on May 24 at the age of 91 in New York. This was confirmed by his wife Eleana Tee Cobb to the US radio station "NPR". He suffered from lung cancer. Cobb was the last survivor of the legendary Miles Davis sextet.
Jimmy Cobb arrived in Washington D.C. on January 20, 1929. to the world. As a teenager, he mainly taught himself to play the drums. From 1946 he learned drums at Armstrong High School in Boston. He later played with jazz greats such as singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959) or saxophonists Charlie Rouse (1924-1988) and Earl Bostic (1913-1965).
In 1958, Coob was inducted into Miles Davis' band, with whom he was to write jazz history just a year later. On March 2 and April 22, 1959, Cobb recorded the album "Kind of Blue" with the group – a milestone in jazz history and also the most commercially successful jazz album ever.