style:
jazz
booking area:
Poland and Central/East Europe
available:
all year 2009 on request
(please contact us)
contact:
Beata Bęben
booking@concerts.pl
ph./fax +48.91.4237712
mobile: +48.503.173959

Al Foster was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 18, 1944. Grown up in New York he was given a drum set when he was ten, and with the encouragement of his father, a double bass player, learned to play jazz by listening to recordings of Max Roach. While still in his teens he met Sonny Rollins, who exerted a strong influence. He worked with Hugh Masekela(1960),  Ted Curson and Illinois Jaquet (1962-1964), Blue Mitchell(with whom he made his first recording, 1964), Lou Donaldson(1966), and Kai Winding. He played jazz-rock for three years as a member of the Miles Davis ensemble (from 1972), with which he toured widely, and toured the USA and recorded with the Milestone Jazzstars in the autumn of 1978. Later (1980) he resumed his association with Miles Davis, touring and recording with him until Davis’ death in 1991. During his long career he also played with such outstanding artists like Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, Junior Cook, Chick Corea, Sonny Fortune, Red Garland, Sam Jones, George Adams, Don Pullen, Bill Evans, Branford Marsalis, John Scofield, Mino Cinelu, Gil Evans, Sting, John McLaughlin, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Ray Brown, Joe Chambers, Michel Petrucciani, Michael Brecker, Bobby Hutcherson, Kenny Garrett, Geri Allen, Dexter Gordon - just to mention a few. These days he is the preferred drummer of McCoy Tyner.