Billy Cobhams Time Machine

Han är nu över 80 år men visar inga tecken på att sakta ner. Den legendariske trummisen Billy Cobham född i Panama och uppvuxen i Brooklyn slog igenom på 1960-talet först med Miles Davis och sedan som en av grundarna till Mahavishnu Orchestra gruppen som för alltid förändrade mötet mellan jazz och rock. Få trummisar har satt ett lika djupt avtryck i den moderna musikhistorien. Som en av jazzfusionens verkliga pionjärer har Cobham ständigt tänjt på gränserna mellan jazz rock och funk med explosiv teknik total precision och en obändig kreativitet. Hans debutalbum &rdquoSpectrum&rdquo från 1973 räknas fortfarande som ett av genrens mest inflytelserika verk och satte en ny standard för fusiontrummor. Under de följande decennierna fortsatte han att utforska och förnya genren med album som &rdquoCrosswinds&rdquo &rdquoA Funky Thide of Sings&rdquo och &rdquoLife and Times&rdquo. &ldquoBilly Cobham set a new benchmark for fusion drumming marrying jaw-dropping jazz-honed dexterity with pulverizing rock power.&rdquo&ndash Rolling Stone Cobham har samarbetat med storheter som George Benson Stanley Turrentine John McLaughlin George Duke Jack Bruce och medlemmar ur Grateful Dead. Med en karriär som sträcker sig över sex decennier mer än trettio album i eget namn och en självklar plats i både Modern Drummer Hall of Fame och Classic Drummer Hall of Fame fortsätter Billy Cobham att inspirera nya generationer musiker världen över. På scen:Billy Cobham &ndash trummorVictor Cisternas &ndash basRocco Zifarelli &ndash gitarrGary Husband &ndash keyboardsBjörn Arkö &ndash saxofon BILLY COBHAM turned 80 in May 2024 and doesnt even think about retiring. In fact he will celebrate the original Billy Cobham Band revisited: Billy Cobhams Time Machine Time Machine is an updated version of my production that featured Michael Brecker RandyBrecker Glenn Ferris Alex Blake John Abercrombie Milcho Leviev and Lee Pastora. 50 years have &ldquoblown by&rdquo since then. I have rarely performed some of the music from that period. Solarization Total Eclipse Bandits&rdquo &ldquoCrescent Sun&rdquo Moon Germs&rdquo and &ldquoSea of Tranquility&rdquo have barely seen the light of day in any of my productions so I am now focused upon resurrecting them around music that the Total Eclipse portfolio has inspired me to create. - Billy Cobham Born in Panama on May 16 1944 and raised in Brooklyn New York Cobham got his first paid gig at the age of eight as a member of St. Catherines Queensmen a drum and bugle corps in St. Albans Queens. He attended New Yorks renowned Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts where he studied music theory and drum technique.While in the military from 1965 to 1968 Cobham played with the U.S. Army Band as percussionist. After his service he played in Horace Silvers Band performed with Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott and recorded with George Benson.In 1969 Billy Cobham co-founded the jazz-rock combo Dreams which included Randy Brecker Michael Brecker John Abercrombie Don Grolnick Barry Rodgers and Will Lee. The following year he joined Miles Davis new fusion ensemble and contributed to Live-Evil A Tribute to Jack Johnson and the Bitches Brew sessions where he collaborated with guitarist John McLaughlin.In 1971 Cobham became a founding member of the jazz-fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra along with McLaughlin Jan Hammer Jerry Goodman and Rick Laird. This original group released three critically acclaimed albums: The Inner Mounting (1971) Birds of Fire (1973) and Between Nothingness and Eternity (live album released in 1973).In 1973 Cobham released his debut solo album Spectrum a breakthrough in jazz-fusion that is universally recognized as one of the genres most significant and influential creations. Spectrum was recorded at Iimi Hendrixs Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Cobhams lineup for the album featured Tommy Bolin on guitar Jan Hammer on electric piano moog synthesizer & piano and Lee Sklar on bass.Also in 1973 Cobham toured with John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana performing material from the album Love Devotion Surrender. In 1974 the original lineup of the Mahavishnu Orchestra disbanded. Cobham continued to create innovative fusion material with the release of Crosswind (1974) Shabaz (1974) Total Eclipse (1974) A Funky Thide of Sings (1975) and Life and Times (1976).During the 70s and 80s Cobham recorded for Atlantic CBS Elektra and GRP. He collaborated with George Duke John Scofield Tony Williams Jack Bruce and The Grateful Dead spinoff band Bobby & the Midnites.In 1992 Cobham was appointed to work with UNICEF to work with autistic outpatients and street children in Santos Brazil in a musical project that lasted for several years.In 2001 Cobham released the two-CD retrospective Rudiments: The Billy Cobham Anthology. In 2002 he began releasing a series of CDs featuring special artists entitled Drum n Voice.By 2005 Cobham had recorded and released over 30 recordings under his name. He developed and enjoyed a special musical collaboration with the Cuban group Asere.In 2007 he released Fruit from the Loom which is a wide-ranging representation of Cobhams roots and journeys. In 2010 Cobham released Palindrome the second installment from the Fruit from the Loom series.In 2011 Cobham began teaching drums online at The Jazz & Fusion Drum School with Billy Cobham.In 2013 Cobham celebrated the 40th anniversary of the release of Spectrum by touring the U.S. Canada and Europe with the Spectrum 40 Band. Also that year Purple Pyramid Records released the Billy Cobham Compass Point two-CD set recorded live at Compass Point Hotel in the Bahamas in 1997 which was never released before.Early 2014 marks the release of the much-anticipated Tales from the Skeleton Coast which is the third installment of four recordings produced as a commemoration and celebration of Cobhams mother and father both of whom were musicians. In his words Tales from the Skeleton Coast reflects life experiences that I shared with my parents that I hold dear in my heart and mind including impressions instilled in me while touring the region of what was previously called southwestern Africa but is now known as Namibia. The images of the Skeleton Coast in particular still burn within me and through the music Ive created a sonic reflection of those cherished experiences.