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/ jazz fusion drummer
Billy Cobham William Emanuel Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was inducted into the ''Mode ...
includes solo, collaborative, and work playing on other artists' albums.


Discography


As leader

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'' (1973) * '' Crosswinds'' (1974) * ''
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'' (1974) * '' Shabazz'' ive(1974) * ''
A Funky Thide of Sings ''A Funky Thide of Sings'' is a 1975 studio album by Billy Cobham. Track listing #"Panhandler" (Billy Cobham) – 3:50 #"Sorcery" (Keith Jarrett) – 2:26 #"A Funky Thide of Sings" (Billy Cobham) – 3:23 #"Thinking of You" (Alex B ...
'' (1975) * ''Life & Times'' (1976) * The Billy Cobham– George Duke Band: ''"Live" on Tour in Europe'' (1976) * ''Magic'' (1977) * ''Alivemutherforya'' ivewith
Steve Khan Steve Khan (born Steven Harris Cahn; April 28, 1947) is an American jazz guitarist. Career Steven Harris Cahn was born in Los Angeles. His father, lyricist Sammy Cahn, "loved to hear any and all versions of his songs". He took piano lessons as a ...
, 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/Wolfgang Schmid'' (1990) * ''By Design'' (1992) * ''The Traveler'' (1994) * ''Nordic'' (1996) * ''Paradox'' (1996) * ''Paradox, The First Second'' ive(1998) * ''Mississippi Nights Live'' ive(1998) * '' Focused'' (1999) * ''Ensemble New Hope Street'' (1999) * ''Nordic: Off Color'' (1999) * ''North by NorthWest'' (2001) * '' Drum 'n' Voice'' (2002) * '' The Art of Three'' ive(2002) * ''Many Years B.C.'' ompilation(2002) * ''Culture Mix'' (2002) * ''The Art of Five'' (2004) * ''Caravaggio w/Massimo Colombo'' (2005) * ''Art of Four'' ive(2006) * '' Drum 'n' Voice 2'' (2006) * ''Fruit from the Loom'' (2007) * ''De Cuba y de Panama'' with Asere (2008) * ''Palindrome'' (2010) * '' Drum 'n' Voice 3'' (Spring 2010) * ''Tales From The Skeleton Coast'' (2014) * ''Spectrum 40 Live'' (2015) * ''Compass Point'' (2013) * ''Drum 'n' Voice 4'' (2016) * ''Broad Horizon'' with Frankfurt Radio Big Band (2016) * ''Tierra Del Fuego'' (2020)


As sideman

With
Mose Allison Mose John Allison Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter. He became notable for playing a unique mix of blues and modern jazz, both singing and playing piano. After moving to N ...
* '' Western Man'' (Atlantic, 1971) * ''Lessons in Living'' (1982) With Gene Ammons * '' Got My Own'' (Prestige, 1972) * ''
Big Bad Jug ''Big Bad Jug'' is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige Records, Prestige label.
'' (Prestige, 1973) With Ray Barretto * ''The Other Road'' (1973) With
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, play ...
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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 *Car ...
'' (1968) * ''
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'' (CTI, 1972) With Bobby and the Midnites * '' Bobby and the Midnites'' (1981) * ''
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) Am ...
'' (1984) With
The Brothers Johnson The Brothers Johnson were an American funk and R&B band consisting of American musicians and brothers George ("Lightnin' Licks") and Louis E. Johnson ("Thunder Thumbs"). They achieved their greatest success from the mid-1970s to early 1980s, ...
* '' Look Out for #1'' (1976) With James Brown * ''Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975'' (1996) With
Kenny Burrell Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ...
* '' Night Song'' (Verve, 1969) * '' God Bless the Child'' (CTI, 1971) With Cargo * ''Cargo'' (1982) With Ron Carter *'' Uptown Conversation'' (Embryo, 1970) * '' Blues Farm'' (CTI, 1973) * '' All Blues'' (CTI, 1973) * '' Spanish Blue'' (CTI, 1974) * '' Yellow & Green'' (CTI, 1976) * ''
New York Slick ''New York Slick'' is an album by bassist Ron Carter which was recorded at Van Gelder Studio in 1979 and released on the Milestone label the following year.Empire Jazz ''Empire Jazz'' is an album by bassist Ron Carter featuring jazz interpretations of five of John Williams' themes from ''The Empire Strikes Back'' which was recorded in 1980 and released on the RSO label.Stanley Clarke Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. He is the first ja ...
* '' School Days'' (1976) * ''Atlantis'' with George Duke (1973) * ''Live at the Greek'' with Larry Carlton (1993) With Larry Coryell * '' Spaces'' (1974) * ''The Essential Larry Coryell'' (1975) * ''Spaces Revisited'' (1997) With
Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...
* '' Bitches Brew'' (1970) * '' Live-Evil'' (1970) * ''
A Tribute to Jack Johnson ''Jack Johnson'' (also known as ''A Tribute to Jack Johnson'' on reissues) is a studio album and soundtrack by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records. The album ...
'' (1970) * '' Big Fun'' (1974) * ''
Get Up with It ''Get Up with It'' is a compilation album by American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis. Released by Columbia Records on November 22, 1974, it compiled songs Davis had recorded in sessions between 1970 and 1974, including those f ...
'' (1974) * ''
Circle in the Round ''Circle in the Round'' is a 1979 compilation album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It compiled outtakes from sessions across fifteen years of Davis's career that, with one exception, had been previously unreleased. All of its tracks have since been ...
'' (1979) * '' Directions'' (recorded 11.3.1960-27.2.1970, released 1980) With Richard Davis *'' Way Out West'' (recorded 1977, Muse, 1980) *'' Fancy Free'' (Galaxy, 1977) With
Eumir Deodato Eumir Deodato de Almeida (; born 22 June 1942) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, ...
* '' Prelude'' (1972) * ''
Deodato 2 ''Deodato 2'' is a 1973 album by Brazilian keyboardist Eumir Deodato. It features noted session guitarist John Tropea on 4 tracks and virtuoso bassist Stanley Clarke on one song, "Skyscrapers". His version of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" w ...
'' (1973) * ''Whirlwinds'' (1974) With
Dreams A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, althou ...
* ''Dreams'' (1970) * ''Imagine My Surprise'' (1971) With Charles Earland *'' Intensity'' (Prestige, 1972) With
Gil Evans Ian Ernest Gilmore Evans (né Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian–American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest orchestrators in jazz, playing an important role i ...
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Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980) ''Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980)'' is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in New York in 1980 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Arthur Blythe, Hamiet Bluiett, and Lew Soloff and ori ...
'' (Trio, 1981) With Fania All Stars * '' Our Latin Thing'' (1972) * ''Latin-Soul-Rock'' (1974) With
Roberta Flack Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937) is a retired American singer. She topped the ''Billboard'' charts with the No. 1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", " Feel Like Makin' Love", "Wher ...
and Donny Hathaway * ''
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway The 1972 Atlantic release ''Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway'' is a million-selling duet album by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway produced by Joel Dorn and Arif Mardin. Flack and Hathaway were both solo artists on the Atlantic roster who'd enjo ...
'' (1980) With Peter Gabriel * '' Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ'' (1989) With Johnny Hammond *'' Breakout'' (Kudu, 1971) * ''
Wild Horses Rock Steady ''Wild Horses Rock Steady'' is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Johnny Hammond recorded for the Kudu label (a subsidiary of CTI Records) in 1971.
'' (Kudu, 1971) *'' The Prophet'' (Kudu, 1972) With
Billy Harper Billy Harper (born January 17, 1943) is an American jazz saxophonist, "one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument.Chris KelseyBilly Harper Biography ''AllMusi ...
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'' (Strata-East, 1973) With
Donald Harrison Donald Harrison Jr. (born June 23, 1960) is an African-American jazz saxophonist and the Big Chief of The Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Berklee Col ...
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Heroes Heroes or Héroes may refer to: * Hero, one who displays courage and self-sacrifice for the greater good Film * ''Heroes'' (1977 film), an American drama * ''Heroes'' (2008 film), an Indian Hindi film Gaming * ''Heroes of Might and Magic'' ...
'' (Nagel Heyer, 2004) * New York Cool: Live at The Blue Note (Half Note, 2005) * This Is Jazz: Live at The Blue Note (Half Note, 2011) With Freddie Hubbard * ''
Sky Dive ''Sky Dive'' is the twentieth album by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, recorded in 1972. It was his fourth album released on Creed Taylor's CTI label and features performances by Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, George Benson, Ron Carter, Billy Cobh ...
'' (CTI, 1973) With
Jackie and Roy Jackie and Roy was an American jazz vocal team consisting of husband and wife singer Jackie Cain (1928-2014) and singer/pianist Roy Kral (1921-2002). They sang together for 56 years and made almost 40 albums. Kral's 2002 obituary in ''The New Y ...
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Time & Love ''Time & Love'' is an album by American vocalists Jackie Cain and Roy Kral featuring performances recorded in 1972 and released on the CTI label.
'' (CTI, 1972) With Milt Jackson * '' Sunflower'' (CTI, 1972) With Jazz Is Dead * ''
Blue Light Rain ''Blue Light Rain'' is the debut album by the instrumental Grateful Dead cover band Jazz Is Dead. It was released in 1998 by Zebra Records. The album features guitarist Jimmy Herring, keyboard player T. Lavitz, bassist Alphonso Johnson, and drumm ...
'' (1998) With
Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award n ...
* ''The Anderson Tapes'' (1971) * '' I Heard That!!'' (1976) With
Robin Kenyatta Robin Kenyatta (March 6, 1942 – October 26, 2004) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. Early life Born Robert Prince Haynes in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, Kenyatta grew up in New York City and began playing the saxophone at age 14. He w ...
*'' Gypsy Man'' (Atlantic, 1973) With
Hubert Laws Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 40 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm- ...
* '' Morning Star'' (CTI, 1972) * '' Carnegie Hall'' (CTI, 1973) With
Mahavishnu Orchestra The Mahavishnu Orchestra were a jazz fusion band formed in New York City in 1971, led by English guitarist John McLaughlin. The group underwent several line-up changes throughout its history across its two periods of activity, from 1971 to 1976 ...
* '' Inner Mounting Flame'' (1971) * ''
Birds of Fire ''Birds of Fire'' is the second studio album by jazz fusion band the Mahavishnu Orchestra. It was released on January 3, 1973, by Columbia Records and is the last studio album released by the original band line-up before it dissolved. As with th ...
'' (1973) * '' Between Nothingness and Eternity'' (1973) * ''
The Lost Trident Sessions ''The Lost Trident Sessions'' is a studio album by jazz fusion group the Mahavishnu Orchestra, released on 21 September 1999 through Sony Music Entertainment. It was originally recorded in June 1973 at Trident Studios but was not released until ...
'' (recorded 1973, released 1999) * ''
Mahavishnu Mahavishnu (Sanskrit: महाविष्णु) is an aspect of Vishnu, the principal deity in Vaishnavism. In his capacity as Mahavishnu, the deity is known as the Supreme Purusha, the absolute protector and sustainer of the universe, th ...
'' (1984) With
Junior Mance Julian Clifford Mance, Jr. (October 10, 1928 – January 17, 2021), known as Junior Mance, was an American jazz pianist and composer. Biography Early life (1928–1947) Mance was born in Evanston, Illinois. When he was five years old, Mance st ...
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With a Lotta Help from My Friends ''With a Lotta Help from My Friends'' is a rock/jazz/funk fusion album by jazz pianist Junior Mance which was released on the Atlantic label in 1970.Arif Mardin Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for o ...
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'' (Atlantic, 1974) With Les McCann *''
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'' (Atlantic, 1970) * ''
Invitation to Openness ''Invitation to Openness'' is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1971 and released on the Atlantic label.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed March 8, 2016 Reception Allmusic gives the album 4 stars stating "Every nuance of McCann's st ...
'' (Atlantic, 1971) With
John McLaughlin John or Jon McLaughlin may refer to: Arts and entertainment * John McLaughlin (musician) (born 1942), English jazz fusion guitarist, member of Mahavishnu Orchestra * Jon McLaughlin (musician) (born 1982), American singer-songwriter * John McLaug ...
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My Goal's Beyond ''My Goal's Beyond'' is the third solo album (after ''Extrapolation'' and ''Devotion'') by guitarist John McLaughlin. The album was originally released in 1971 on Douglas Records in the US. It was later reissued by Douglas/Casablanca (1976), El ...
'' (Columbia, 1971) * '' Love Devotion Surrender'' with Carlos Santana (Columbia, 1973) * '' Electric Guitarist'' (Columbia, 1978) With
Mark-Almond Band Mark–Almond was a jazz-influenced English pop group of the 1970s and early 1980s, sometimes also called The Mark-Almond Band. The core members were Jon Mark, who sang lead and played guitar, percussion, and harmonica and Johnny Almond who pla ...
* ''Rising'' (1972) * ''To the Heart'' (1976) With Jimmy Owens *'' Headin' Home'' (A&M/Horizon, 1978) With Sonny Rollins * '' The Way I Feel'' (Milestone, 1976) * '' Don’t Stop the Carnival'' (Milestone, 1978) With
Michel Sardaby Michel Sardaby (born 4 September 1935) is a French jazz pianist. Background and career Born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, he moved to Paris, where in March 1967, he was one of the pianists, the others being Joe "Stride" Turner, Errol Parker, C ...
*''Michel Sardaby in New York'' (Sound Hills, 2002) With
Don Sebesky Don Sebesky (born December 10, 1937) is an American arranger, jazz trombonist, and keyboardist. Biography Sebesky trained in trombone at the Manhattan School of Music; in his early career, he played with Kai Winding, Claude Thornhill, Tommy D ...
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Giant Box ''Giant Box'' is a double album by American arranger/conductor and composer Don Sebesky recorded in 1973 and released on the CTI label.Horace Silver Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at sc ...
* '' Serenade to a Soul Sister'' (1968) * '' You Gotta Take a Little Love'' (1969) With Carly Simon * '' Hotcakes'' (1974) With Lonnie Smith *'' Mama Wailer'' (Kudu, 1971) With
Gábor Szabó Gábor István Szabó (March 8, 1936 – February 26, 1982) was a Hungarian American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music. Early years Szabó was born in Budapest, Hungary. He began playing guitar at the age ...
* '' Mizrab'' (CTI, 1972) With
Leon Thomas Amos Leon Thomas Jr. (October 4, 1937 – May 8, 1999), known professionally as Leon Thomas, was an American jazz and blues vocalist, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and known for his bellowing glottal-stop style of free jazz singing in the ...
*'' The Leon Thomas Album'' (Flying Dutchman, 1970) With
McCoy Tyner Alfred McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938March 6, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet (from 1960 to 1965) and his long solo career afterwards. He was an NEA Jazz Master and five-time Gram ...
* '' Fly with the Wind'' (Milestone, 1976) With
Stanley Turrentine Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touched on jazz fusion ...
* ''Sugar'' (CTI, 1970) * Ain't No Way (Blue Note, 1980, recorded 1969) With
Stanley Turrentine Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touched on jazz fusion ...
and Milt Jackson * ''Cherry'' (CTI, 1972) With
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* ''Purple'' (1970) With
Grover Washington, Jr. Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk and soul-jazz saxophonist. Along with Wes Montgomery and George Benson, he is considered by many to be one of the founders of the smooth jazz genre. He wr ...
* '' All the King's Horses'' (Kudu, 1972) * ''
Soul Box ''Soul Box'' is the third studio album by American saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. The project was originally divided in two LPs, both released in 1973 on Kudu Records with quite identical covers as ''Soul Box Vol. 1'' (KU-12) and ''Soul Box ...
'' (Kudu, 1973) With
Randy Weston Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston (April 6, 1926 – September 1, 2018) was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection. Weston's piano style owed much to Duke Ellington and Thelonious ...
* '' Blue Moses'' (CTI, 1972)


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