Learn Al Foster - 1978 [2016] Mixed Roots

Al Foster (born Jan 18, 1943) is an American jazz drummer. Foster played alongside Miles Davis during the 1970s, together with was i of the few people to convey contact alongside Davis during his retirement from 1975–1981. Foster too played on Davis's 1981 comeback album The Man alongside the Horn inwards 1981. He was the alone participant to play inwards Davis's band both earlier together with later on his retirement.
Foster has toured extensively alongside Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, together with Joe Henderson. He is a versatile drummer who has played inwards musical styles ranging from bebop to gratuitous shape to jazz/rock.

Foster was born inwards Richmond, Virginia, together with grew upward inwards New York. He began playing drums at the historic menstruum of xiii together with made his recording debut alongside Blue Mitchell at 21.
He joined Miles Davis's grouping when Jack DeJohnette left inwards 1972, together with played alongside Davis until 1985. In his 1989 autobiography, Davis described the get-go fourth dimension he heard Foster play alive inwards 1972 at the Cellar Club inwards Manhattan: "He [Foster] knocked me out because he had such a groove together with he would only lay it correct inwards there. That was the variety of affair I was looking for. Al could railroad train it upward for everybody else to play-off together with only proceed the groove going forever."

He was recording alongside Blue Mitchell (as "Aloysius Foster" on the Blue Note album The Thing to Do). In 1969, at the Cellar Club on 95th St. inwards Manhattan, Foster got his big break; equally he was backing upward bassist Earl May inwards a quartet, his drumming was noticed past times trumpeter Miles Davis. Davis hired Foster on the spot equally a replacement for Jack DeJohnette, who was thence departing the ever-enlarging Davis grouping of that period. This indeed would test a long commitment for Foster, who played on every Miles Davis album ranging from Big Fun to You're Under Arrest, together with toured alongside him extensively.
Foster left Miles Davis inwards 1985, together with since thence has worked independently, sometimes equally leader, sometimes equally sideman. Over his lengthy together with enduring career Al Foster has worked alongside Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Haden, Thelonious Monk, Freddie Hubbard, Dave Liebman, Herbie Hancock, together with Joe Henderson.

Track listing:

01. Mixed Roots
02. Ya' Damn Right
03. Pauletta
04. Double Stuff
05. doc Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Dedicated to Miles Davis)
06. El Cielo Verde
07. Soft Distant

Personnel:

Al Foster - drums (#1-7), pianoforte (#4)
Michael Brecker (#1-7) - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Bob Mintzer (#1,2), Sam Morrison (#5,6) - soprano saxophone
Jim Clouse - alto saxophone, flute (#5)
Paul Metzke - guitar (#1-3,5-7)
Masabumi Kikuchi (#1-6) - piano, keyboards
Teo Macero - pianoforte (#7)
Jeff Berlin (#1,2), T.M. Stevens (#3-6), Ron McClure (#7) - bass

Recorded at CBS Recording Studios, New York inwards 1978.