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- Male
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- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1941
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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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- 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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- Al Foster
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- Al Foster
- date of birth
- 1943-01-18
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- date of death
- 2025-05-28
- birth name
- Aloysius Tyrone Foster
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
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