| The Original Mob | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | 2014 |
| Venue | Smoke |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Smoke Sessions |
The Original Mob is an album by jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb. It was released by Smoke Sessions.
| The Original Mob | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 2014 |
| Venue | Smoke |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Smoke Sessions |
The Original Mob is an album by jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb. It was released by Smoke Sessions.
Cobb met the other three musicians on this album – pianist Brad Mehldau, guitarist Peter Bernstein, and bassist John Webber – "at workshops that he led at the New School University in New York in the early 1990s". [1] The four recorded together on Bernstein's first album: Somethin's Burnin' , released in 1994. [1]
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