Jimmy Cobb, drummer on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, dies aged 91

Jazz musician who was key to Davis's sound was the last surviving player on the classic album

Jimmy Cobb, the jazz drummer and last surviving player on Miles Davis's seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue has died from lung cancer at age 91.

Cobb was key in helping to achieve the cool disposition of a handful of Davis's masterworks, including 1959's Porgy and Bess, 1960's Sketches of Spain, 1961's Someday My Prince Will Come, the 1962 live set Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall and Live at the Black Hawk sessions.