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	Billy Cobham
		Billy Cobham, born May 16 1944 in Panama, is one of the world's most influential drummers, best known for his Jazz Fusion in the 1970s, with John McLaughlin 's Mahavishnu Orchestra, where he pioneered a powerful style of drumming with Rock and Funk influences.
		Cobham has played and recorded with hundreds of top musicians, including Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Larry Coryell, and Horace Silver ; and is famous for his explosive, fast, spectacular playing.
		Cobham toured extensively from 1971 to 1973 with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, who released two studio albums and one live album.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Billy_Cobham (424 words)

	Drummerworld: Billy Cobham
		Cobham toured the U.S. and Europe with Silver in 1968, and also moonlighted with Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, and George Benson.
		Cobham and guitarist John McLaughlin split off from Davis' group to pursue a harder rocking brand of fusion in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which debuted in 1971 with the seminal The Inner Mounting Flame.
		With Mahavishnu, Cobham's fiery intensity was given its fullest airing yet, and his extraordinary technique influenced not only countless fusioneers in his wake, but also quite a few prog rock drummers who were aiming for similarly challenging musical territory.
	www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Bill_Cobham.html (992 words)

	Billy Cobham - Biography - AOL Music
		After debuting as a leader with the classic Spectrum in 1973, Cobham spent most of fusion's glory days recording for Atlantic; briefer stints on CBS, Elektra, and GRP followed, and by the mid-'80s, Cobham was de-emphasizing his own bands in favor of session and sideman work.
		Cobham and guitarist John McLaughlin split off from Davis' group to pursue a harder rocking brand of fusion in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which debuted in 1971 with the seminal The Inner Mounting Flame.
		With Mahavishnu, Cobham's fiery intensity was given its fullest airing yet, and his extraordinary technique influenced not only countless fusioneers in his wake, but also quite a few prog rock drummers who were aiming for similarly challenging musical territory.
	music.aol.com /artist/billy-cobham/65255/biography (1002 words)

	Billy Cobham Drum Clinic
		The legendary Billy Cobham, with his matchless, dazzling, ambidextrous skills as a drummer, has applied the same insistent fervor to his long list of monumental achievements.
		Cobham remembers "In those days, Jazz was a bit off-limits to students while classical music was preferred by the education establishment.
		Cobham’s most notable offerings to fusion jazz are his own 35 recordings beginning with Spectrum, which was released on Atlantic Records in 1973 and reissued on compact disc by Rhino Entertainment in 2001 and also offered as a DVD-A audio disk.
	music.utsa.edu /spring06/drumset.htm (737 words)

	CD Review of Billy Cobham - Rudiments: The Billy Cobham Anthology on Rhino @ jazzreview.com
		Cobham was the last of that trio to connect with Davis, but his first great impact was to come with The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
		Rudiments is an apt name for the collection, since Cobham has always blended an emotional ferocity with a technical proficiency that is the legacy of his musical education in youth drum corps and U.S. Army bands at Brooklyn's Military Ocean Terminal and Fort Dix, New Jersey.
		Billy Cobham has continued as a major force in jazz performance, composing and education.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=1383 (466 words)

	Billy Cobham Live: Flight Time - Billy Cobham - Music Reviews
		Cobham also seems to push guitarists to new heights (i.e.
		Yet, despite the intensity and chops of Finnerty and Cobham, this session is remarkably restrained thanks in large part to the thoughtful playing of keyboarist Don Grolnick.
		It is a shame that this unit did not become Cobham's regular band as this is one of his most cohesive efforts.
	www.mp3.com /albums/128437/reviews.html (453 words)

	ProTon Musikagentur - Billy Cobham: Pressestimmen
		Cobham swings quite ably on that album, which served as a reminder to me that he wasn’t just a “fusion guy.” It also gave me the feeling that I should go see Billy Cobham should I get the chance.
		Seeing Cobham play with Mahavishnu would’ve been preferable, but seeing as I’d yet to be born when they were a group, the Art of 5 is fine with me. If and when they come to your town, you should check them out.
		One of the bands that was opening for Billy Cobham's Spectrum on their tour in 2002 was called Acoustic Jazz is Dead, and the night Cobham's quartet visited the Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, the visiting bunch might have been called Jazz Fusion is Not Dead.
	www.proton-berlin.de /kuenstler/cobham_presse.html (1432 words)

	Vic Firth Artist: Billy Cobham
		As a PAS Hall of Fame inductee, Billy's clinic was one of the highlights of the convention.
		Billy is more often remembered for his speed, strength, and sheer endurance behind the drums, but his musicality and his touch is often overlooked.
		Cobham did not initially play a large kit with two bass drums (The Inner Mounting Flame and early live Mahavishnu gigs were done with a smaller, single bass drum kit), and he wasn’t the first jazz drummer to play with two bass drums.
	www.vicfirth.com /artists/cobham.html (1925 words)

	YouTube - billy cobham stratus
		Cobham is one of the finest innovative drummers of modern time.
		I remember back in the 70's when Billy Cobham had Funnel drums,,,,he's awesomely one of the best ever drummers.
		Billy Cobham at the Modern Drummer festvial, Part.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=8ae3l12PM2c (235 words)

	Billy Cobham interview
		Billy Cobham has no time for the prophets of doom who say that Jazz is dead or, at best, in terminal decline.
		Cobham agrees that Jazz has not produced many genuine giants in recent years but he argues that there are a number of potential giants around who have yet to be recognised as the highly accomplished and enterprising musicians they are.
		The Cobhams settled in Brooklyn and one of Billy's earliest memories was beating out rhythms with drumsticks on the fender of his father's 1951 Chrysler while his school friends looked on in admiration.
	www.jazznow.com /0803/0803BillCob.html (1677 words)

	Billy Cobham Interview
		Cobham’s first big gig was playing drums for pianist Horace Silver but he really gained national attention through his ventures into fusion.
		Cobham also maintained his own bands where he enlisted the support of fellow innovators such as John Abercrombie, George Duke and John Scofield.
		It is highly recommended that you listen to Billy Cobham in one form or another.
	members.tripod.com /vermontreview/Interviews/BCobham.htm (1009 words)

	Rolling Stone : Billy Cobham: Total Eclipse : Music Reviews
		Super drummer Cobham is on his third album and seems still to be looking for a sound to match his almost hallucinatory, ambidextrous talent.
		As often happens with a drummer-led group the major emphasis is naturally on the percussion, and with a drummer of Cobham's caliber it's hard to fault the producers (Cobham and Ken Scott) for putting less emphasis on the guitar and horns than on the leader's awesome displays of stick work.
		Billy Cobham is perhaps too strong a musician to run a group without totally dominating the rest of the players, but until he gets his ego within some boundaries, his records should continue at the same bland pace.
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/billycobham/albums/album/93070/review/5945085/total_eclipse (376 words)

	Billy Cobham's Biography
		In January Billy was invited to perform with L. Subramaniam and Jean – Luc Ponty in India.
		July found Billy in Japan with The Art of Three (Ron Carter and Kenny Barron) This was a 15 concert in 15 days stint that was immediately followed by 6 clinics for Yamaha in Japan.
		October 1 Billy performed with Marchal Solal, legendary jazz pianist and Dr. Billy Taylor another Jazz legend at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.
	www.billycobham.com /biography.html (3264 words)

	Billy Cobham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cobham began playing drums while growing up in New York City, to where his family had moved while he was still a small child.
		In 1973, Cobham capitalized upon his international fame by forming his own band and continued to lead fusion bands for the next several years.
		For all his spectacular pyrotechnics, however, Cobham's talent runs deep and his abilities as a teacher and clinician ensure that his methods are being handed on to future generations of drummers.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=476 (297 words)

	DVD-Audio Review: Billy Cobham - ‘Spectrum’
		With his explosive style and enormous drum kits, Cobham was more than able to hold his own while everyone around him was spewing out riffs as if they were paid by the note.
		Billy’s kit is spread across the front speakers, typically the snare in the center with its reverb in the other channels, the rest of the kit is panned across the front left, center and front right.
		While the drum sound lacks the impact of his later recordings like ‘Warning’, Cobham is a very strong drummer and one gets a sense of the power on his snare hits (which occasionally have an extra jolt of reverb applied to the surrounds for emphasis).
	www.highfidelityreview.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=340369 (987 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Billy Cobham
		Cobham has fashioned a unique style that combines the brain-melting power of hard-rock rhythm keepers with the agility of jazz men: imagine Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, the Who's Keith Moon and Elvin Jones all rolled into a singularly gifted musician.
		Cobham's subtle use of high-hat cymbals and modest in-the-pocket backbeat serves to enhance the midtempo groove.
		Cobham's terse solo brings the roiling tom-toms to the fore, but he dips back into the mix so quickly you're hardly aware he took the spotlight at all.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.10.99/cobham-9923.html (667 words)

	SONIC MIRROR \| MUSIC IS A WILD BEAST - A film by Mika Kaurismäki with BILLY COBHAM : Home
		"Sonic Mirror" cuts seamlessly from a packed auditorium in Finland, where Cobham is performing one of his compositions with an orchestra, to a sweaty street in Brazil, where the world-famous jazz musician gets a lesson from a cocky kid on how to hit a bass drum.
		Then it's onward to a Swiss institution for autistic adults, where a music therapist is encouraging a young man to paint a picture about Cobham.
		Then there's Cobham, doing a drum solo in Finland with four sticks at once, two in each hand, or tapping out the Latin rhythms he heard as a boy on the corner of Fulton Street and Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn on the hood of a parked car.
	www.sonicmirror.com /index.php?id=2 (398 words)

	Billy Cobham Biography : Oldies.com
		Cobham began playing drums while growing up in New York City, to where his family had moved while he was still a small child.
		In 1973, Cobham capitalized upon his international fame by forming his own band and continued to lead fusion bands for the next several years.
		For all his spectacular pyrotechnics, however, Cobham's talent runs deep and his abilities as a teacher and clinician ensure that his methods are being handed on to future generations of drummers.
	www.oldies.com /artist-biography/Billy-Cobham.html (302 words)

	Master's Seminar with Drummer Billy Cobham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cobham began his music career in the late 60s with Horace Silver’s band, and after stints with Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott and George Benson, he teamed up with Miles Davis to record on the seminal Bitches Brew and A Tribute To Jack Johnson.
		In 1971 Cobham and guitarist John McLaughlin left the Davis group to form a hard rocking fusion band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, which established his drumming on a level of its own.
		Since then Cobham has released many stellar albums under his own name as well as working as a sideman for some of the biggest names in jazz, including Freddie Hubbard, Grover Washington Jr., and Hubert Laws.
	www.tipsevents.com /foundation/cobham.htm (252 words)

	Billy Cobham Interview
		The beauty of all this for Cobham is that Jazz Is Dead is introducing the drummer to a whole new generation of listeners, people who were barely out of diapers when he decided to focus his career in Europe in the early '80s.
		Cobham certainly keeps the schedule of a younger man. Besides all of the time spent with Jazz Is Dead, Billy continues his solo and sideman activities.
		And Billy's currently putting the finishing touches on a new album with another of his "groups," one that features trumpet-great Randy Brecker and keyboardist/drummer Gary Husband, with a tour to follow in early '99.
	www.effingham.net /bishop/BillyCobhamInterview.htm (1995 words)

	JR.com: Billy Cobham - Life & Times in Music: Drums:
		Cobham whips his drum kit into a frenzy; bassist Doug Rauch sends chills up the spine in the finest Stanley Clarke tradition; Scofield arcs his way to the heavens; and Cobham takes the proceedings further aflight upon crests of foamy Moog synthesizer solos.
		Billy Cobham is perhaps the most sought-after drummer in the jazz fusion community.
		Cobham went on to play in and lead various ensembles featuring numerous other pop, jazz, and rock luminaries well into the 2000s.
	www.jr.com /xs-billy-cobham-life-and-times-in-music-drums--pi!3868211.html (509 words)

	Tommy Bolin Archives
		When former Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Billy Cobham released the extraordinary Spectrum album in 1973 it had the immediate and profound effect of moving the burgeoning jazz-rock fusion movement into the mainstream.
		Cobham had first heard Tommy when he was playing with Zephyr at a festival that also had Cobham’s band Dreams on the bill.
		Cobham’s ideas going into the album were to simplify the material compared to what he had been playing in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, material that could be enjoyed more directly rather than requiring analytical dissection.
	www.tbolin.com /history/billy_cobham.html (998 words)

	Ink 19 :: Billy Cobham
		Not for the terminally jittery, high-energy jazz-rock fusion drummer Billy Cobham's anthology of his Atlantic Records tenure from 1973's Spectrum until 1978's Inner Conflicts is like a straight shot of double espresso to the brain.
		Cobham went on to add horns and change personnel consistently on his following releases, Crosswinds, Total Eclipse, and A Funky Thide of Sings.
		The extensive 28-page booklet with Cobham's quotes, track-by-track documentation and a complete career overview is alone worth the price of the album.
	www.ink19.com /issues/september2001/wetInk/musicC/billyCobham.html (337 words)

	Billy Cobham Asian Tour (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Billy Cobham is one of the most expressive drummers in the world.
		Soon Cobham would invite me to take part in his Asian Tour, with 6 shows in the Southern Asia.
		This tour is associated to the Culture Mix Project, that Billy and his band have been performing since some time ago.
	www.marcolobo.com /cobham2.html (210 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock CO-CZ
		Billy Cobham inspired me to start playing the drums, so his music has always had a place close to my heart.
		Cobham was a natural choice for the Mahavishnu Orchestra, where his jaw-dropping chops and relentlessly driving style became singularly influential.
		Cobham's composing and arranging skills also shine, and tracks such as "Solarization" and "Sea of Tranquility" are among the best he ever committed to vinyl.
	www.gepr.net /co.html (14718 words)

	Billy Cobham In The Spotlight -- Live at the Iridium - Culturemix
		From the opening selection where Gill on pan was featured in the opening riffs, to the unique pan jazz/funk/rock fusion which he facilitated throughout the set, all eyes and ears of those present took in the riveting sound of pan.
		Cobham's inclusion of the pan in his mix is an effective, well-thought out combination which highlights the power of the Pan Jazz/funk genre, especially when there is an aligning of the "drums" - Billy Cobham on traditional drum kit, and Junior Gill on the pan or steel “drum.”
		Cobham's strategic alliance with Gill came about some four-five years ago, when they gigged together at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
	www.panonthenet.com /spotlight/billycobham/cobham.htm (1025 words)

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