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Billy Cobham Discography
The discography of jazz/ jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham includes solo, collaborative, and work playing on other artists' albums. Discography As leader * ''Spectrum'' (1973) * '' Crosswinds'' (1974) * ''Total Eclipse'' (1974) * '' Shabazz'' ive(1974) * ''A Funky Thide of Sings'' (1975) * ''Life & Times'' (1976) * The Billy Cobham– George Duke Band: ''"Live" on Tour in Europe'' (1976) * ''Magic'' (1977) * ''Alivemutherforya'' ivewith Steve Khan, Alphonso Johnson and Tom Scott (1978) * ''Inner Conflicts'' (1978) * ''Simplicity of Expression: Depth of Thought'' (1978) * ''B.C.'' (1979) * ''Live: Flight Time'' ive(1980) * ''Stratus'' (1981) * '' Observations & Reflections'' ( Elektra/Musician, 1982) * Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie: ''Smokin’'' ive(Elektra/Musician, 1982) * ''Warning'' (1985) * ''Consortium'' with Johannes Faber (1985) * ''Power Play'' (1986) * ''Best Of'' (1987) * ''Picture This'' (1987) * ''Incoming'' (1989) * ''No Filters w/Wolfga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drum 'n' Voice 2
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a percussion mallet, to produce sound. There is usually a resonant head on the underside of the drum. Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll. Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years. Drums may be played individually, with the player using a single drum, and some drums such as the djembe are almost always played in this way. Others are normally played in a set of two or more, all played by the one player, such as bongo drums and timpani. A number of different drums together with cymbals form the basic modern drum kit. Uses Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where The Beat Meets The Street
''Where the Beat Meets the Street'' is the second studio album by Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir and his side-project, Bobby and the Midnites. The album reached number 166 on the Billboard 200. Track listing #"(I Want to Live in) America" (John Perry Barlow, Gerrit Graham, Bobby Cochran, Bob Weir) #"Where the Beat Meets the Street" (Nicky Chinn, Steve Glen) #"She's Gonna Win Your Heart" (Billy Burnette, Mentor Williams) #"Ain't That Peculiar" (Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Marvin Tarplin) #"Lifeguard" (Peter Beckett, Dennis Lambert) #"Rock in the 80's" (Cochran) #"Lifeline" (Frederiksen, Haselden, Medica, Roddy) #"Falling" (Barlow, Jeff Baxter, Kenny Gradney, Weir) #"Thunder & Lightning" (Cochran, Weir) #"Gloria Monday" (Barlow, Baxter, Weir) Credits Musicians *Bob Weir – guitar, vocals *Jeff Baxter – guitar, synthesizer *Paulette Brown – vocals *Billy Cobham – drums *Bobby Cochran – guitar, vocals *Steve Cropper – guitar * Paulinho Da Costa â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby And The Midnites (album)
''Bobby and the Midnites'' is a 1981 studio album by Grateful Dead singer and guitarist Bob Weir and his then side project, Bobby and the Midnites. The band featured fellow Grateful Dead member Brent Mydland at that time, and also jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham. Though not a huge commercial success, the album did chart in the ''Billboard'' 200 and reached #158 in December 1981. Chart info for ''Bobby and the Midnites'' on All Music Guide/ref> The song "Festival" became a live concert favorite for the band. "(I Want to) Fly Away" was reissued on the 2004 compilation album ''Weir Here – The Best of Bob Weir''. Track listing # "Haze" (Brent Mydland, Essra Mohawk, Bob Weir, Bobby Cochran, Matthew Kelly) – 5:08 # "Too Many Losers" (Cochran, Weir) – 3:50 # "Far Away" (Weir, Cochran, Kelly) – 3:34 # "Book of Rules" (Harry Johnson, Barry Llewellyn) – 3:31 # "Me, Without You" (John Perry Barlow, Alphonso Johnson) – 3:12 # "Josephine" (Weir) – 6:11 # "(I Want to) Fly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby And The Midnites
Bobby and the Midnites was a rock group led by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. The band was Weir's main side project during the first half of the 1980s. They released two albums, but were better known for their live concerts than for their work in the recording studio. With a rhythm section that included jazz veterans Billy Cobham and, for a time, Alphonso Johnson, Bobby and the Midnites played rock music that was influenced by jazz-rock fusion. History of the Band In 1978, Bob Weir had led a side project called the Bob Weir Band that played a number of concerts. Besides Weir himself, two members of the Bob Weir Band were in Bobby and the Midnites. One was guitarist and singer Bobby Cochran (Eddie Cochran's nephew), formerly of Steppenwolf. The other was keyboardist and singer Brent Mydland, who in the interim had joined the Grateful Dead. Matthew Kelly was another "Midnite" who had already played in a band with Weir — Kingfish, which Kelly and Dave Torbert had founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Rabbit (George Benson Album)
''White Rabbit'' is an album by George Benson. The title track is a cover of the famous Great Society/ Jefferson Airplane song by Grace Slick.This album was George Benson's second CTI Records project produced by Creed Taylor and was recorded nine months after ''Beyond the Blue Horizon''. Background ''"White Rabbit"'' was described at Billboard as "a dynamic pop-packed jazz LP with two extraordinary works ''" California Dreaming"'' and ''"White Rabbit"''". For this project Creed Taylor and Don Sebesky used the formula that gave them good results in other recordings with Verve Records and A&M Records: two successful rock/ pop songs covers from The Mamas and the Papas and Jefferson Airplane, music from a well-known soundtrack like ''"The Summer Knows"'' (''"Theme from Summer of '42)'' of Michel Legrand, a jazzy version of a classical Brazilian song'' ''"''Little train''"'' ''from Heitor Villa-Lobos'' " Brachianas Basileiras No.2" ''and an original George Benson composition,'' "El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giblet Gravy
''Giblet Gravy'' is the fourth album by jazz/soul guitarist George Benson. Track listing Personnel Musicians *George Benson – guitar *Albertine Robinson, Eileen Gilbert, Lois Winter – vocals *Eric Gale – guitar, tracks 2, 4, 5, 7 *Carl Lynch – guitar, track 1 *Herbie Hancock – piano, tracks 3, 6, 9-12 *Ron Carter – bass, tracks 1, 3, 6-12 *Bob Cranshaw – bass, tracks 2, 4-5 *Billy Cobham – drums *Johnny Pacheco – congas, tambourine *Pepper Adams – tenor saxophone, tracks 1-2, 4-5, 7-8 *Ernie Royal – trumpet, tracks 1-2, 4-5, 7-8 *Snooky Young – trumpet, tracks 1-2, 4-5, 7-8 * Jimmy Owens – trumpet, flugelhorn, tracks 1-2, 4-5, 7-8 *Alan Raph – bass trombone. tracks 1-2, 4-5, 7-8 *Tom McIntosh – arranger, conductor, tracks 1-2, 4-5, 7-8 Technical *Esmond Edwards – producer *Val Valentin – engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, struct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Benson
George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist. A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others. He then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. His album ''Breezin''' was certified triple-platinum, hitting no. 1 on the ''Billboard'' album chart in 1976. His concerts were well attended through the 1980s, and he still has a large following. Benson has won ten Grammy Awards and has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Biography Early career Benson was born and raised in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of seven, he first played the ukulele in a corner drug store, for which he was paid a few dollars. At the age of eight, he played guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Barretto
Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz. His first hit, "El Watusi," was recorded by his Charanga Moderna in 1962, becoming the most successful pachanga song in the United States. In the late 1960s, Barretto became one of the leading exponents of boogaloo and what would later be known as salsa. Nonetheless, many of Barretto's recordings would remain rooted in more traditional genres such as son cubano. A master of the descarga (improvised jam session), Barretto was a long-time member of the Fania All-Stars. His success continued into the 1970s with songs such as "Cocinando" and "Indestructible." His last album for Fania Records, ''Soy dichoso'', was released in 1990. He then formed the New World Spirit jazz ensemble and continued to tour and record until his death in 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bad Jug
''Big Bad Jug'' is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label. accessed December 18, 2012 Reception awarded the album 2 stars with its review by stating, "The repertoire, which includes a couple of funky originals... is not too inspiring... but Ammons makes the best of it".Yanow, SAllmusic Review accessed December 18, 2012 < ...
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Got My Own
''Got My Own'' is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige Records, Prestige label. accessed December 18, 2012 Reception Allmusic awarded the album 2½ stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "Ammons's huge sound makes the music worthwhile".Yanow, SAllmusic Review accessed December 18, 2012 Track listing # "Lady Sings the Blues (song), Lady Sings the Blues" (Billie Holiday, Herbie Nichols) - 5:30 # "God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song), God Bless the Child" (Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 4:05 # "Strange Fruit" (Abel Meeropol) - 3:30 # " ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Ammons
Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. The son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons is remembered for his accessible music, steeped in soul and R&B. Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ammons studied music with instructor Walter Dyett at DuSable High School. Ammons began to gain recognition while still at high school when in 1943, at the age of 18, he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax's band. In 1944, he joined the band of Billy Eckstine (who bestowed on him the nickname "Jug" when straw hats ordered for the band did not fit), playing alongside Charlie Parker and later Dexter Gordon. Performances from this period include "Blowin' the Blues Away," featuring a saxophone duel between Ammons and Gordon. After 1947, when Eckstine became a solo performer, Ammons then led a group, including Miles Davis and Sonny Stitt, that performed at Chicago's Jumptown Club. In 1949, Ammon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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