# We saw Jimmy Cobb!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-saw-jimmy-cobb/809928>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 2, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-saw-jimmy-cobb/809928 "2018-03-02T21:44:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-saw-jimmy-cobb/809928/1 "2018-03-02T21:44:44Z")

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At the Portland Jazz Festival. Holy shit: Jimmy fucking _Cobb_! The same Jimmy Cobb that played drums for Miles Davis on his _Kind of Blue_ and _Sketches of Spain_ albums. The guy is 89 and can still run off a drum solo like he means it. An added benefit is that the throw-together quartet he was playing with did both _So What_ and _Freddy Freeloader_. What a treat!

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-saw-jimmy-cobb/809928/2 "2018-03-02T22:18:02Z")

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Wow! Cool! What is it with jazz drummers -Paul Motian and Art Blakey lived long, too!

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-saw-jimmy-cobb/809928/3 "2018-03-02T22:32:25Z")

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> [@WordMan](#):
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> Wow! Cool! What is it with jazz drummers -Paul Motian and Art Blakey lived long, too!

Yeah, Joe Morello was 82 when he died a few years ago.

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**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-saw-jimmy-cobb/809928/4 "2018-03-02T23:22:29Z")

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Very cool. 🙂