Al Foster, the jazz drummer who performed in groundbreaking bands with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins, has ...

Jazz drummer Al Foster, who played with the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins has died. He was 82. NPR ...

Foster also played in the bands of Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, and can be heard on Davis’ studio LPs On the ...

Al Foster, the drummer whose percussion sound illuminated the jazz genres of hard bop, died on May 28 at his apartment in New York City.

Al Foster, full name Aloysius Tyrone Foster, was born in Virginia in 1943 and grew up in Harlem. Foster was inspired to get ...