BILLY COBHAM レコード& CD

Review: Billy Cobham's 1974 masterpiece Total Eclipse has been remastered onto heavyweight 180 gram vinyl. It was done using only pure analogue components, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. The original album was recorded at Atlantic and Electric Lady Studios, New York with production from Ken Scott alongside Billy himself. It is as intense as freeform as jazz gets, with bristling drums and manic horn work, cosmic turbulence and a real sense of energy from the unique playing style of Cobham. This is a record that is sure to thrill all fans of first-class fusion sound similar to Weather Report or Return To Forever.

Review: ** REPRESS ALERT ** For the uninitiated: Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader. He is also the brother of multi instrumentalist Wayne Cobham. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013. Produced with the legendary Jan Hammer (a former bandmate) and engineer Ken Scott in 1973, Spectrum was Cobham's first solo album after leaving his previous group Mahavishnu Orchestra. The album was heavily influenced by the music of Miles Davis, with whom Cobham had previously collaborated extensively. A seminal album of the jazz fusion scene. A Swiss resident since 1980s, Cobham now lives in Schoepfen, a canton near Bern.