The Atlantic Years 1973-1978 Billy Cobham

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Album-Release:
2015

HRA-Release:
23.09.2015

Label: Warner Music

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Fusion

Artist: Billy Cobham

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  • Spectrum
  • 1Quadrant 404:20
  • 2Searching For The Right Door01:24
  • 3Spectrum05:09
  • 4Anxiety01:42
  • 5Taurian Matador03:05
  • 6Stratus09:48
  • 7To The Women In My Life00:51
  • 8Le Lis03:20
  • 9Snoopy's Search01:02
  • 10Red Baron06:41
  • 11All 4 One04:13
  • 12Stratus - Pt. I03:29
  • 13Stratus - Pt. I03:30
  • 14Stratus - Pt. II03:03
  • Crosswinds
  • 15Spanish Moss - A Sound Portrait (2015 Remastered)17:37
  • 16The Pleasant Pheasant05:18
  • 17Heather08:38
  • 18Crosswind03:46
  • 19Crosswind02:42
  • 20Le Lis03:22
  • Total Eclipse
  • 21Solarization: Solarization / Second Phase / Crescent Sun / Voyage / Solarization - Recapitulation11:10
  • 22Lunarputians02:32
  • 23Total Eclipse05:58
  • 24Bandits02:32
  • 25Moon Germs04:56
  • 26The Moon Ain't Made Of Green Cheese00:58
  • 27Sea Of Tranquility10:44
  • 28Last Frontier05:25
  • 29Moon Germs02:55
  • Shabazz
  • 30Shabazz13:48
  • 31Taurian Matador05:30
  • 32Red Baron06:39
  • 33Tenth Pinn14:01
  • A Funky Thide Of Sings
  • 34Panhandler04:06
  • 35Sorcery02:24
  • 36A Funky Thide Of Sings03:38
  • 37Thinking Of You04:29
  • 38Some Skunk Funk05:09
  • 39Light At The End Of The Tunnel03:38
  • 40A Funky Kind Of Thing09:16
  • 41Moody Modes12:16
  • 42Neu Rock N' Roll06:21
  • Life & Times
  • 43Life & Times07:01
  • 442902:36
  • 45Siesta / Wake Up / That's What I Said03:59
  • 46East Bay06:08
  • 47Earthlings05:06
  • 48Song For A Friend (Part I)05:07
  • 49On A Natural High05:18
  • 50Song For A Friend (Part II)04:43
  • 51Natural Essence (Produced By Billy Cobham) - Atlantic Single 45-3210 Out Of Darkness03:19
  • 52Natural Essence (Produced By Billy Cobham) - Atlantic Single 45-3210 Out Of Darkness02:59
  • Live On Tour In Europe (with George Duke)
  • 53Hip Pockets07:06
  • 54Ivory Tattoo04:41
  • 55Space Lady04:37
  • 56Almustafa The Beloved06:54
  • 57Do What Cha Wanna04:35
  • 58Frankenstein Goes To The Disco07:17
  • 59Sweet Wine03:54
  • 60Juicy07:23
  • 61Do What Cha Wanna03:48
  • 62Hip Pockets05:10
  • Inner Conflicts
  • 63Inner Conflicts10:42
  • 64The Muffin Talks Back09:56
  • 65Nickels And Dimes07:23
  • 66El Barrio06:34
  • 67Arroyo04:20
  • Total Runtime06:12:01

Info for The Atlantic Years 1973-1978

The fully "Remastered Eight-Album Set Features" The Legendary Drummer's Output From Atlantic Records Offered For The First Time Since The '70s.

At the dawn of the 1970s, Billy Cobham built his legend with his bandleader debut, Spectrum. Raw, daring and overflowing with adrenalin, the album topped the Billboard Jazz charts. Having played for Miles Davis, Horace Silver and Mose Allison, Billy Cobham had joined the legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1971, before signing to Atlantic as a solo artist in 1973. Worshipped today as a titan of drumming, Billy Cobham's career is now in its fifth decade.

Celebrating the work of the legendary Jazz musician, Rhino will release the 8-album set: BILLY COBHAM: „The Atlantic Years 1973-1978“ features:

The set includes two rare outtakes, “All 4 One” from the 1973 Spectrum sessions, and “Neu Rock 'n' Roll” from the 1975 A Funky Thide Of Sings sessions. Also included are the “Stratus” single edit in mono and stereo from Spectrum, the “Crosswind/Le Lis” single from Crosswinds, the “Moon Germs” single from Total Eclipse and the “Do What Cha Wanna/Hip Pockets” single from the Live On Tour In Europe (With George Duke) album.

The set features collaborations with fellow '70s fusion pioneers Jan Hammer, Tommy Bolin, John Abercrombie, John Williams, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Cornell Dupree, John Scofield and Alphonso Johnson.


Billy Cobham
Ever since his breakthrough in the early 1970s-as a founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and as a drummer/leader whose recordings (such as Spectrum) and powerful, complex style of play exerted a strong influence on the course of jazz and jazz-fusion-Billy Cobham has remained a tireless musical explorer.

Panamanian by birth, a New Yorker by upbringing, and a resident of Switzerland for more than 25 years, Cobham has pursued an ever-broadening, ever-deepening engagement with the world not only as a master drummer and percussionist but as a composer, producer, educator, and clinician who gives service through music even as he constantly expands his personal creative expression.

Cobham's newest recording, Fruit from the Loom-released in April 2008 through his own imprint, Creative MultiMedia Concepts, Inc. (CMMC)-is a suitably wide-ranging representation of his roots and his journeys. He reprises two of his best-known compositions from the '70s, "Spectrum" and "Crosswinds," by incorporating violin on the former and steel pan on the latter. "I've always found it difficult to focus upon one direction in music," Cobham notes, "so I've resigned myself to projecting ideas and thoughts through a musical kaleidoscope, from Latin to rock and jazz. This version of 'Spectrum' is a testament to that idea."

On the new CD, he also utilizes a string quartet (on "Faia") and percussion ensembles-with Cobham himself playing all the parts on "Samba du Militairestrasse" and Nigerian friends joining him on "Thoughts from Okuta." Experiences from travels in Brazil are captured in "Eggshells Still on My Head" and "Florianapolis," while the Bocas del Toro islands off the eastern coast of Panama-which Cobham describes as a place where "it is easy for me to relax and generally mellow out"-inspire the buoyant "Sweet Bocas."

Fruit from the Loom, dedicated to the memory of Cobham's parents William and Ivy, features support from longtime colleagues including organist Brian Auger, bassists Victor Bailey and Stefan Rademacher, saxophonist Ernie Watts, guitarists Dean Brown and Jean-Marie Ecay, and, on steel pan, Junior Gill.

Cobham is also the centerpiece of a new 90-minute documentary by director Mika Kaurismäki entitled Sonic Mirror. The genesis of the film dates back to 2001, when Kaurismäki approached the drummer about producing a portrait of his life and times. "But then we started to think of other ways of doing it," the director reveals. "We finally decided to do a film about Billy and some of his projects, focusing on rhythm and music as communication and universal language."

To Cobham, the term "sonic mirror" means "a sound reflection of everything that I experience, or that one experiences, in music. It's almost like a radio parabolic dish, where all of the radio signals come in, are processed, and reflected back to the presenter."

The film, which takes place in Switzerland, New York, Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), and Helsinki (Finland) and which was released in April 2007, has screened at film festivals in Munich and Cologne, Germany; Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil; Pusan, South Korea; Gijón, Spain; Adelaide, Australia; Guadalajara, Mexico; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's also had a commercial release in France. A multiple-disc DVD release is currently in the works, focusing on the concert in Finland with Randy Brecker; Malê Debalê, a Bahian bloco afro; the Glarus concert (with Swiss musicians and yodeling choir); Okuta Percussion and Autistics; and the Okuta Percussion concert.

The Hollywood Reporter described Sonic Mirror as "a feel-good world music documentary with the potential to be the next Buena Vista Social Club." But for Cobham, more fundamentally, "it verifies the value of music as an important factor in this world. If used for the greater good, it can be a powerful ally."

Billy Cobham was born in Colón, Panama on May 16, 1944. The family relocated to the U.S. in the winter of '47, living first in Harlem and then in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. "Music was all around me," he recalls. "Primarily either Latin music-folclórico or típico, as they called it in Panama-or jazz."

Cobham, whose first paying gig came at age eight, courtesy of his pianist father, cut his teeth on drumming as a member of St. Catherine's Queensmen, a drum and bugle corps in St. Albans, Queens. He went on to attend New York's famed High School of Music and Art, where he studied music theory and drum technique alongside some of today's great musical legends, including trumpeter Jimmy Owens, bassist Eddie Gomez, and pianist Larry Willis. At the time, "jazz was a bit off-limits to students while classical music was preferred by the education establishment. So of course students craved to connect with jazz artists in any way that they could, be it chance encounters at school lectures or via LP recordings that they could study and eventually emulate."

After military service, during which he played in the U.S. Army Band as percussionist (1965-68), Cobham began working in Horace Silver's band. (While on a European tour with Silver in 1968 he became one of the first percussionists, along with Max Roach and Tony Williams, to use the Electronic Drum Controller made by the Meazzi Drum Company in Milan.) He also performed with Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott, and recorded with George Benson.

In 1969 Cobham co-founded the fusion group Dreams, which also featured Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, John Abercrombie, Don Grolnick, Barry Rodgers, and Will Lee. The following year he was invited to join Miles Davis's group and contributed to four pivotal recordings by the trumpeter, including Bitches Brew (where he collaborated with guitarist John McLaughlin) and Tribute to Jack Johnson.

Mahavishnu Orchestra was formed by McLaughlin in 1971 with Cobham, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman, and Rick Laird. They released three acclaimed albums (beginning with Inner Mounting Flame) before the band was dissolved and Cobham chose to launch his solo career with Spectrum, one of the definitive albums of the jazz-rock era.

During the 1970s and '80s, he recorded steadily as a leader for Atlantic, CBS, Elektra, and GRP, collaborating with artists ranging from George Duke, John Scofield, and Tony Williams to Jack Bruce and the Grateful Dead, both on stage and in the studio. For more visit: www.billycobham.com

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