Al Foster

   
Artist: Al Foster

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Super Standard

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12

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Al Foster was natural in Richmond, VA, just was raised in New York. He taught himself drums at around the age of 13, and by the eld of 16 he was transcription with Blue Mitchell (as "Aloysius Foster" on the Blue Note album The Thing to Do). In 1969, at the Cellar Club on 95th St. in Manhattan, Foster got his gravid break; as he was financial support up bassist Earl May in a quadruple, his drumming was noticed by cornetist Miles Davis. Davis chartered Foster on the smear as a substitute for Jack DeJohnette, wHO was and so departing the ever-enlarging Davis grouping of that period. This indeed would prove a long dedication for Foster, wHO played on every Miles Davis album ranging from Large Fun to You're Under Arrest, and toured with him extensively.


Foster left hand Miles Davis in 1985, and since and then has worked independently, sometimes as leader, sometimes as sideman. Over his lengthy and enduring life history Al Foster has worked with Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Haden, Thelonious Monk, Freddie Hubbard, Dave Liebman, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Henderson.