Al Foster

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1941

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

32,677

Total plays

104,592

Aloysius Tyrone Foster (January 18, 1943 – May 28, 2025) was an American jazz drummer. Foster's professional career began in the mid-1960s, when he played and recorded with hard bop and swing musicians including Blue Mitchell and Illinois Jacquet. Foster played jazz fusion with Miles Davis during the 70s and was one of the few people to have contact with Davis during his retirement from 1975 to 1980. During Davis's retirement, Foster continued to play and record acoustic jazz with Sonny Rollins

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology

   · 2015 · cited 29,100x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,860x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,955x

4. Tissue-based map of the human proteome

   · 2015 · cited 14,096x

5. Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

   · 2015 · cited 11,850x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Foster

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Richmond

Place of death

New York City

Occupation

composer

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

jazz

Instrument

drum kit

Record label

Verve Records

Image

Al Foster.jpg

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