Al Foster

Al Foster ( born January 18, 1943 in Richmond, Virginia ) is an American jazz drummer.

Foster grew up in New York City, where he learned to play the drums autodidact. He has worked at the age of sixteen years with Hugh Masekela, later with Ted Curson and Illinois Jacquet took ( with full name ausgeschriebenem Aloysius Foster) with Blue Mitchell Blue Note Album The Thing to Do on and kicked around 1966 with Lou Donaldson and Kai Winding on.

1972 Miles Davis heard him performing at the Cellar Club in Manhattan and brought him into his band. The collaboration lasted until 1985; Foster worked in this period to ten albums of Miles Davis' band, as 1974/75 when the live albums Dark Magus and Pangaea.

After that he belonged to the band of Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson and worked with musicians such as Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Randy and Michael Brecker, Bill Evans, George Benson, Kenny Drew, Carmen McRae, Stan Getz, Toots Thielemans, Dexter Gordon, Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk, Dave Holland, Tibor Elekes, Branford Marsalis, Sting, John McLaughlin, Michel Petrucciani and Dexter Gordon. More recently, he was often partners of Sonny Rollins and McCoy Tyner and led his own quartet, which was repeatedly heard in Germany.