A Jimmy Cobb Retrospective (Part 2)
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Peter Martin
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🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, man, the next up we have Porgy and Bess, another Miles record, a way different Miles |
| 0:19.8 | record than Kind of Blue or anything else we'll listen to. Yeah, and I wanted to do this because this is one of those records that we always associate with, from a drumming standpoint, I think, of that great Philly Joe's solo on Go or go-go-go-go, whatever that is. Bab-dap, bop-bap, bap, da-tah, that iconic solo. But half of the record or a third of it or something is Jimmy Cabba and on this this is it ain't necessarily so right that's right I mean I love like the texture that he'd like I mean to me and going back to listen to this record I was like you know kind of blue like these Miles records they are so well Obviously, you know, this music and these arrangements and the sound of it. |
| 0:57.3 | But I mean, what Jimmy Cobb did. |
| 0:59.1 | I mean, it's like he's like the producer and the engineer, like the amount that he's just doing to the sound. |
| 1:04.7 | Of course, the beat and the groove and playing the tunes great. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.4 | But what he does to contribute to just the sound of this record, like he should have got a Grammy for being producer of it. |
| 1:14.3 | Agreed, man. |
| 1:15.4 | Drummers can affect everything |
| 1:17.0 | and good or bad. |
| 1:18.4 | Exactly. They can build or |
| 1:20.2 | they can be builders or destroyers. |
| 1:22.6 | And so just listen to how this drummer, |
| 1:24.6 | Jimmy Cobb, affects this classic |
| 1:26.5 | track from Miles Davis. |
| 1:27.7 | It's from Porgy and Best. |
| 1:28.6 | It ain't necessarily so. |
| 1:42.6 | It's like a sound scape. He's, putting in there. Wow. I'm I'm I'm |
| 2:01.6 | I'm |
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