Billy Cobham - Total Eclipse (1974 Japanese Atlantic Vinyl LP)

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Billy Cobham - Total Eclipse | Vinyl LP - 1974 Japanese Atlantic (P-8539A, Warner-Pioneer Corporation)

Billy Cobham had played drums in Miles Davis's Bitches Brew band and then spent two years as a founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra before recording his debut Spectrum in 1973. Total Eclipse, his third Atlantic album, came out in 1974 and retained the core ensemble from Crosswinds: 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' Abbey Road and produced Supertramp's Crime of the Century, 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.

All 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.