{"title":"Billy Cobham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBy the time Billy Cobham recorded \"Spectrum\" in 1973, he had already spent five years at the centre of the music that would define the decade. Born in Colón, Panama and raised in Brooklyn, he came up through the U.S. Army Band, joined Horace Silver's quintet in 1968, and moved quickly into session work for Creed Taylor's CTI label, where he appeared on albums by George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, and Grover Washington Jr. His work with Miles Davis on \"A Tribute to Jack Johnson\" and \"Big Fun\" followed, and then the Mahavishnu Orchestra, where his playing on \"The Inner Mounting Flame\" (1971) and \"Birds of Fire\" (1973) alongside John McLaughlin set a new benchmark for what a drummer could do in a fusion context: polyrhythmic, loud, technically exacting, and swinging in a way that rock drumming generally wasn't. \"Spectrum\", recorded after Mahavishnu's original lineup dissolved, was a leader debut that reached number one on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart, and its opening track \"Stratus\" became one of the most sampled drum performances in recorded music, later appearing in Massive Attack's \"Safe from Harm\". The Atlantic albums that followed through the mid-1970s, particularly \"Crosswinds\" (1974) with John Abercrombie and George Duke, and the live \"Shabazz\" from Montreux, show the period at full stretch.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"billy-cobham-total-eclipse-1974-japanese-atlantic-vinyl-lp","title":"Billy Cobham - Total Eclipse (1974 Japanese Atlantic Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl\u003c\/b\u003e: EX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSleeve\u003c\/b\u003e: VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eObi:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e None\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur grading system explained \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBilly Cobham - \u003cem\u003eTotal Eclipse\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1974 Japanese Atlantic (P-8539A, Warner-Pioneer Corporation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBilly Cobham had played drums in Miles Davis's \u003cem\u003eBitches Brew\u003c\/em\u003e band and then spent two years as a founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra before recording his debut \u003cem\u003eSpectrum\u003c\/em\u003e in 1973. \u003cem\u003eTotal Eclipse\u003c\/em\u003e, his third Atlantic album, came out in 1974 and retained the core ensemble from \u003cem\u003eCrosswinds\u003c\/em\u003e: Mike Brecker on flute, soprano and tenor saxophone, Randy Brecker on trumpet and flugelhorn, John Abercrombie on electric and Ovation guitars, Glenn Ferris on trombone and bass trombone, Milcho Leviev on keyboards and Alex Blake on electric bass. Ken Scott, who had engineered the Beatles' \u003cem\u003eAbbey Road\u003c\/em\u003e and produced Supertramp's \u003cem\u003eCrime of the Century\u003c\/em\u003e, produced alongside Cobham. The sessions took place at Atlantic Recording Studios and Electric Lady Studios in New York, with remixing at Scorpio and Trident Studios in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll eight pieces are Cobham originals. \"Solarization\" opens Side A as a five-part suite running eleven minutes — each of the five movements named in the grooves — that moves through attacking jazz-rock, a Leviev solo piano interlude, smoother trombone writing from Ferris and a hard closing recapitulation. \"Lunarputians\" is the funk track on the album; the title piece and \"Bandits\" complete the side. Side B opens with \"Moon Germs,\" where Cornell Dupree — uncredited in the Discogs entry but confirmed from the original rear cover and Jazz Journal discography — plays his only extended guitar solo of the session. \"The Moon Ain't Made of Green Cheese\" runs under a minute, Cobham at the acoustic piano. \"Sea of Tranquility\" follows at nearly eleven minutes. \"Last Frontier\" closes. The album reached No. 6 on the Billboard jazz album chart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43458896658491,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_6764.jpg?v=1777258822"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/billy-cobham.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}