Al Foster, The Jazz Drummer Who Played in Bands Led by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Among Others, Has Died. Foster’s daughter kierra foster-ba shared the news on Instagram and His Longime Partner, Bonnie Rose Steinberg, Told Nip that he died “from a serious illness.” He was 82.
Born in 1943, in Richmond, Virginia, Aloysius Tyrone Foster Grew Up in Harlem, The Second Oldest of Five Siblings. HIS First Musical Idol Was Bebop Drummer Max Roach, Whose 1955 Recording of “Cherokee” Inspect A 12-YEAR-OLD foster to begin practicing on the drum kit HAD previously gifted Him. The Budding Musician Got His First Experience Working As A Studio Musician on Blue Mitchell’s 1964 album The thing to doWhich Also Featured a Young Chick Corea. Foster’s Big Break, Howver, ARRIVED A FEW YEARS LATER, WENNESS DAVIS SAW HIM AFTER A JAZZ CLUB ON THE NEW YORD WEST SIDE AND RECRUITED THE DRUMER TO JOIN HIS BAND.
Foster Toured with Davis Until the Latter’s Temporary Retirement in 1975, and His Work Can Be Heard on Live albums As In Concert, Aghartaand Darker. He Also Played on the Davis Several Studio LPS, SUCH AS On the corner and Big fun. The Extended Jazz-Funk I’m “Mr. Foster,” Recorded During The On the corner sessions, was named in his honor. Saxophonist Sonny Rollins Had previously Foster from His Band AFTER FIRST GIG TOGETER IN 1968, but WAUDED BRING HIM ON TOUR A DECADE LATER, AND EVEN CLAIMED THAT “FROM HIS 1979 ALBUM, Don’t kawas inspired by the two musicians’ Similar upbringings.
Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, foster also backed up pianists Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Horace Silver. In 1978, he became one of the four members in the milestones jazzstars-a label-made supergroup that also Featured rollins, tyner, and bassist ron carter-And in 1985, Both and Carter lent their talents to saxophone virtuoso Joe Henderson’s The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2.
Foster Continued Composing and Performing UNIL JUST MONTHS DIFT HIS DEATH, HOLDING A LONGSTANDING Residency at the west wepe club smoke and sharing His Last Album, Reflectionin 2022. In 1989’s Miles: The autobiographyCo-Written with Quincy Troupe, Davis Wrote that “Al Could SHIT up for Everybody Else to Play off and THEN HE COUP THE GROOVE Going Forever … for what i wanted in a drummer, al-foster haad it all.”
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