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Billy Cobham performing on Réunion in October 2006.
Billy Cobham, born May 16 1944 in Panama, is one of the world's best and most influential drummers known for his jazz fusion in the 1970s, with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, where he pioneered a powerful style of drumming with jazz, rock and funk influences. He has played and recorded with musicians including Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Larry Coryell, and Horace Silver; and is famous for his fast, explosive, and powerful playing. His most recognized contributions lie in the realm of fusion, and is considered one of the genre's greatest figures.

He has been sampled by Massive Attack in their tune "Safe from Harm", centered on the beat and bassline of Cobham's "Stratus", from his debut album Spectrum; and by Souls of Mischief's "93 Til' Infinity", based on the bassline and keyboards of "Heather", from 1974's Crosswinds.

Prior to his emergence with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham worked with Horace Silver in 1968, then with Miles Davis, on classic recordings like Live-Evil and A Tribute to Jack Johnson. The preface to his work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra was his work on John McLaughlin's album My Goal's Beyond. Cobham toured extensively from 1971 to 1973 with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, who released two studio albums and one live album. The original studio versions of tunes on the live album were later released as The Lost Trident Sessions in 1999. In May 1973, still with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham recorded his first solo album Spectrum, with musicians including Jan Hammer, from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Tommy Bolin, a guitarist who later played with heavy rock band Deep Purple. Just before the Mahavishnu Orchestra's last touring leg, in late 1973, Cobham recorded and toured with Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, in concerts which featured material from their album Love Devotion Surrender, and Cobham's own material. In 1980 he worked with Jack Bruce, in a band called Jack Bruce & Friends. In 1994 he joined an all-star cast at the Greek Theatre (in LA) and the results were on an album: Stanley Clarke, Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Najee and Dron Johnson LIVE AT THE GREEK. The concert was predominantly Stanley's music but everyone contributed to the amazing night of song.

A number of solo albums followed (as of July 2005, Cobham has released over 30 recordings under his own name), and Cobham continues as a recording artist and musical educator to this day. In 2006, Billy Cobham released the cd "Drum n voice 2". This was a return to the 1970s jazz funk sound, with guests such as: Jan Hammer, Buddy Miles, John Patitucci, Jeff Berlin, Dominic Miller, Mike Lindup, Airto Moreira, Frank Gambale, Brian Auger, Guy Barker and the band Novecento. The cd was produced and arranged by Pino & Lino Nicolosi for Nicolosi productions - Just Groove. [1]

2007: drum n voice n°1 and n° 2 becomes LIVE [2] [3]

A complete discography can be found at Cobham's homepage.

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Baku Jazz Festival 2007

Discography

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Billy Cobham in 1973

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1910s  1920s  1930s  - 1940s -  1950s  1960s  1970s
1941 1942 1943 - 1944 - 1945 1946 1947

Year 1944 (MCMXLIV
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Anthem
Himno Istmeño


Capital
(and largest city) Panama City

Official languages Spanish
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Jazz fusion (or "jazz-rock fusion" or "fusion") is a musical genre that merges elements of jazz with other styles of music, particularly pop, rock, folk, reggae, funk, metal, country, R&B, hip hop, electronic music and world music.
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John McLaughlin (born January 4, 1942), also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin (not to be confused with pop/rock artist Jon McLaughlin), is a jazz fusion guitar player from Doncaster, Yorkshire in England.
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The Mahavishnu Orchestra was a jazz-rock fusion group that debuted in 1971 and dissolved in 1976 and reunited briefly from 1984 to 1987.

First Mahavishnu Orchestra


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Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in and around New Orleans.

Overview

Jazz has been called "America's only original art form.
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For other uses, including related musical genres, see .
Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music.
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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician widely considered to be one of the most influential of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from
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Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (born April 7 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American jazz trumpeter. Known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles, Hubbard is commonly ranked among the greatest trumpeters and jazz musicians to come to prominence in the
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Larry Coryell (April 2 1943-) is an American jazz guitarist.

He was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1943. After graduating from Richland High School in eastern Washington, he moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington.
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Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father was from Cape Verde and his mother was born in New Canaan, Connecticut and is of Irish-African descent.
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Massive Attack are a trip hop band from Bristol, England. They have released four studio albums, two movie soundtracks, one remix album, and a greatest hits collection. Their musical style has been acclaimed for combining elements of jazz, hip hop, rock, and soul; lately darker,
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Spectrum
(1973) Total Eclipse
(1974)

Spectrum is the debut album of fusion drummer, Billy Cobham. Released in 1973, Spectrum
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Souls of Mischief is a four member alternative hip hop group from Oakland, California, that is also part of the hip hop collective, Hieroglyphics. The Souls of Mischief formed in 1993 and is comprised of emcees A-Plus, Opio, Phesto, and Tajai.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1971 1972 1973 - 1974 - 1975 1976 1977

Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV
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Crosswinds may refer to:
  • the plural of crosswind
  • Crosswinds (album), a 1987 album by Capercaillie

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Jan Hammer (IPA: [jan hamɘ]) (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, today part of the Czech Republic). His compositions have won him several Grammy awards.
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Thomas Richard 'Tommy' Bolin (August 1, 1951, Sioux City, Iowa - December 4, 1976) was an American-born guitarist best known for his work with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), The James Gang (from 1973 through 1974), Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976) and his solo work.
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Deep Purple are an English hard rock band formed in Hertfordshire in 1968.[1] Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal and hard rock,[2]
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Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20 1947), is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist.

He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, the Santana Blues Band, going mostly under the title "Santana", which
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Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father was from Cape Verde and his mother was born in New Canaan, Connecticut and is of Irish-African descent.
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Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31 1931) is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is founded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.
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Dreams was one of the original prominent jazz-rock bands in the period of the late 1960s and early 1970s and recorded for Columbia Records. They prevailed with other jazz-rock bands of the time such as Chicago, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chase, Flock, and Soft Machine.
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Dreams was one of the original prominent jazz-rock bands in the period of the late 1960s and early 1970s and recorded for Columbia Records. They prevailed with other jazz-rock bands of the time such as Chicago, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chase, Flock, and Soft Machine.
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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician widely considered to be one of the most influential of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from
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A Tribute to Jack Johnson
(1970) On The Corner
(1972)

A Tribute to Jack Johnson is a jazz fusion album recorded in 1970 by Miles Davis.
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On the Corner is a jazz fusion album by Miles Davis recorded in June and September 1972. It was scorned by critics at the time of its release and was one of Davis's worst-selling recordings.
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Live Evil
(1970) A Tribute to Jack Johnson
(1970)

There is also a Black Sabbath album called Live Evil.
Live-Evil
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Get Up with It
(1974) The Man With The Horn
(1980/81)

Get Up With It is an album collecting tracks recorded between 1970 and 1974 by Miles Davis.
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Circle in the Round is an album by jazz musician Miles Davis.

Track listing

Original CD release Circle in the Round (Columbia)
  1. "Two Bass Hit" 3:43
  2. "Love For Sale" 11:52
  3. "Blues No.

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