Al Foster
USA
Born: 18 January 1944
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz
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Al Foster was born in Richmond, VA, but was raised in New York. He taught himself drums at about the age of 13, and by the age of 16 he was recording 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 big break; as he was backing up bassist Earl May in a quartet, his drumming was noticed by trumpeter Miles Davis. Davis hired Foster on the spot as a replacement for Jack DeJohnette, who was then departing the ever-enlarging Davis group of that peri...
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- Thelonious Monk (94)
- Herbie Hancock (61)
- Sonny Rollins (51)
- Freddie Hubbard (41)
- Chris Potter (23)
- Cannonball Adderley (18)
- Blue Mitchell (5)
- Steve Kuhn (4)
- Dave Kikoski (1)
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- Jack DeJohnette (64)
- Tony Williams (5)
Followers
- Miles Davis (281)
- Ron Carter (33)
- Joe Henderson (14)
- Eddie Gomez (11)
- Horace Silver (11)
- Tommy Flanagan (7)
- George Mraz (7)
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- McCoy Tyner (53)
- George Gershwin (4)
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