Alfred Cobbs

Alfred "Al" Cobbs (* around 1915; † 2002 ) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( trombone , arrangement ).

Live and act

Cobbs worked in the New York jazz scene from the mid-1930s; In 1937 he replaced Sandy Watson in the Mills Blue Rhythm Band . In the following years he played in the bands and orchestras of Les Hite (1942), Lucky Millinder (1944-49), Louis Armstrong , Panama Francis , Bull Moose Jackson (1945) and Jimmie Lunceford (1948/49). In the 1950s he worked on recordings for Ollie Shepard / Hot Lips Page , Annisteen Allen , Wynonie Harris , Esther Phillips , Louis Jordan (for whom he also arranged), Annie Laurie / Leroy Kirkland , Big Maybelle , Johnny Hodges and Big John Greer with.

With his studio band Al Cobbs and The Federalites , he accompanied the singer Joe Bailey in 1951 on recordings for Federal Records ; in his formation played u. a. Emmett Berry , Al Norris , Walter Page and Jo Jones . In 1953 he was briefly a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and added the trombone group of Quentin Jackson and Britt Woodman . In the early 1970s he worked with Sy Oliver and Earl Warren and The Count's Men; In 1973 he performed with Ella Fitzgerald in New York's Carnegie Hall at the Newport Jazz Festival . In the field of jazz he was involved in 62 recording sessions between 1937 and 1976, most recently with Illinois Jacquet ( Jacquet's Street ). As a studio musician, he can also be heard on recordings by Sam Cooke and Sister Sledge .

personal data
SURNAME	Cobbs, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cobbs, Al
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz and rhythm & blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1915
DATE OF DEATH	2002