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After his fine, straightforward 1973 debut LP Spectrum, Cobham made four albums on which grandiose horn charts often smothered his drum energy. But late in 1975, he reduced his seven-piece jazz-rock group to a fusion quartet and let them rip through simpler tunes on the oft-powerful Life and...
1976 RS:
Biography
Recording with Miles Davis and then starring with the Mahavishnu
Orchestra in the '70s, drummer Billy Cobham was a key figure in the
development of jazz-rock fusion.
Learning to play the timbales by age three, Billy Cobham moved with his mother from Panama to New York when he was about seven to join his pianist father. In 1959 he enrolled at the High School of Music and Art. After serving in the...
Learning to play the timbales by age three, Billy Cobham moved with his mother from Panama to New York when he was about seven to join his pianist father. In 1959 he enrolled at the High School of Music and Art. After serving in the...
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