Al Foster, drummer for Miles Davis, has died

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    Al Foster, drummer for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, has died
May 29, 20252:01 PM ET
 Nate Chinen

Jazz drummer Al Foster, photographed in Paris in 1980.
Andre Clergeat/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Al Foster, whose superbly alert and flexible drumming formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years, propelling bands led by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and many others, died on Wednesday in his New York City apartment. He was 82.
Bonnie Rose Steinberg, his partner of more than 47 years, confirmed his death to NPR Music. She said Foster died from a serious illness.
Foster had a strong yet supple beat, and the intuitive ability to shift his rhythmic balance to suit the musical setting. His swinging ride cymbal could convey the crisp authority of bebop or the deep pull of modal jazz, and he provided the thrashing backbeat in some prominent fusion bands.
"He knocked me out because he had such a groove and he would just lay it right in there," Davis wrote in Miles: The Autobiography. The trumpeter honored that bedrock groove with a hallucinatory funk composition titled "Mr. Foster," recorded during the sessions for his 1972 album On the Corner. Joining Davis' working band, Foster appeared on studio albums like Big Fun and live albums like Dark Magus and Agharta. 
from www.npr.org

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	Al Foster, drummer for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, has died May 29, 20252:01 PM ET Nate Chinen Jazz drummer Al Foster, photographed in Paris in 1980. Andre Clergeat/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Al Foster, whose superbly alert and flexible drumming formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years, propelling bands led by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and many others, died on Wednesday in his New York City apartment. He was 82. Bonnie Rose Steinberg, his partner of more than 47 years, confirmed his death to NPR Music. She said Foster died from a serious illness. Foster had a strong yet supple beat, and the intuitive ability to shift his rhythmic balance to suit the musical setting. His swinging ride cymbal could convey the crisp authority of bebop or the deep pull of modal jazz, and he provided the thrashing backbeat in some prominent fusion bands. "He knocked me out because he had such a groove and he would just lay it right in there," Davis wrote in Miles: The Autobiography. The trumpeter honored that bedrock groove with a hallucinatory funk composition titled "Mr. Foster," recorded during the sessions for his 1972 album On the Corner. Joining Davis' working band, Foster appeared on studio albums like Big Fun and live albums like Dark Magus and Agharta. from www.npr.org Edited by snobb - Yesterday at 5:23am