Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb has died of lung cancer at age 91. His career included work with Dinah Washington and Cannonball Adderley, but he's best-known for working with Miles Davis on a series of albums including 1959's Kind of Blue, regarded by many as the greatest jazz album ever made. As Rolling Stone describes, "Cobb's shimmering cymbal work and feather-light pulse helped the album achieve its otherworldly sense of cool."

Last year, Cobb remembered the creative back-and-forth he shared with Davis. "One time he tried to tell me something about playing the drums with both hands, and I turned to him said, 'Um, let me play the drums!' But we were good friends, so I could say things like that to him without worrying about getting fired."

Pretty Things singer Phil May dies at 75

The music world is also mourning British singer Phil May, who fronted the '60s rock band Pretty Things. He's died at age 75 of complications following hip surgery.

At the time Pretty Things were seen as a raunchier version of the Rolling Stones, but in retrospect it became clear that their fast and loose version of blues rock helped lay the groundwork for punk. Phil May, who was bisexual, also wore his hair long and cultivated an androgynous look that he stuck by despite enduring abuse for it. Among the band's fans was David Bowie, who covered two Pretty Things songs on his album Pin-Ups in 1973. (New York Times)

Polish government tries to make chart-topping hit disappear

Imagine if you turned on your local Top 40 station and the number one song in the country had suddenly vanished, ignored by the station as though it had never existed. That's what just happened in Poland, where Kazik Staszewski's song "Your Pain is Better Than Mine" was named number one on the country's best-established music chart. Within minutes, the station that generates the chart took the results down from their website and stopped playing the song.

Furious artists, fans, and even some station staffers who resigned in protest say that government officials told the state-run station to censor the song, which criticizes a powerful politician who was allowed to visit a cemetery closed to the public during the coronavirus crisis. Staffers who resigned included the music director, who said the government has been censoring news broadcasts but had left music stations alone — until now. (New York Times)

Kate Nash documentary comes to North America for limited time

The new documentary Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl is available in North America, but only for a few more days. The limited availability is a little ironic given that the documentary is about the singer-songwriter's move to America to get a new start on her career after being hounded by the British press and ultimately dropped from her record label when she refused to make new music that followed in the mold of her MySpace breakout hit "Foundations." It's a fascinating look at an artist wrestling with the music-business machine to make work that's meaningful to her, with cringe-inducing scenes and a shocking plot twist. It's available to rent online from Alamo Drafthouse.

Michael Jordan rocks out to...well, everything

The latest version of the meme where all sorts of different songs get laid over video of someone dancing like they just don't care involves Michael Jordan, using 1998 footage released in a new documentary. What was Jordan actually listening to? "Days Like This," a then-unreleased song by Kenny Lattimore. (ESPN)