Here’s that Billy Cobham transcription— just of a busy portion of Freddie Hubbard’s solo on For Someone I Love, on Milt Jackson’s record Sunflower. I’m learning a lot about Musescore doing something this damn complicated. […]
Category: Billy Cobham
Billy, switch to decaf babe
Getting cocky about my Musescore skills now, working on a Billy Cobham transcription, from Milt Jackson’s album Sunflower. On the tune For Someone I Love, he does sort of an insane thing that almost crashes […]
Very occasional quote of the day: leading and musical direction
People in a band have a tendency to fall into ruts. They hear things only one way. They don’t really want to change that much. The guitar player will only play guitar a certain way. […]
Groove o’ the day: Billy Cobham – White Rabbit
Here’s Flamenco beat played by Billy Cobham on a cover of the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit, from George Benson’s album of the same name. I’ve been listening to it on my drives to Eugene […]
Transcription: Billy Cobham – More
Billy Cobham playing a swing tune in kind of a show band setting here, on Stanley Turrentine’s album The Sugar Man. A lot of it hardly merits a full transcription, except it’s good to see […]
Transcription: Billy Cobham – Introspective
Ahhh good times here in the Pacific Northwest, with the forests burning, and the entire city blanketed in smoke so it looks like we’re in Blade Runner, or the Mexico sequences from Breaking Bad, with […]
Let’s talk about Billy Cobham
I was working on this post about Billy Cobham some weeks ago, and felt I couldn’t finish it— it’s not that easy to write a complete portrait of the playing of a great drummer. Try […]
Daily best music in the world: Miroslav
Here’s a great record from 1970: Purple, led by Miroslav Vitous. With John McLoughlin, Joe Zawinul, and Billy Cobham. It’s very much in a post-In A Silent Way Miles mode, with Cobham sounding at times […]
Groove o’ the day: Billy Cobham – The Dancer
Today we have a funk samba groove from Billy Cobham, playing The Dancer on Stanley Clarke’s School Days— one of the biggest fusion albums of the 70s. We’re actually throwing a bone to the open-handed […]
Daily best music in the world, again: TOM TOMS, MAN
Here’s Billy Cobham playing with Ray Barretto in 1973. The tom toms are just outrageous— really exciting: You never hear that sound any more— Steve Gadd just wiped everybody else out for fusion tom tom […]
Groove o’ the day: Billy Cobham in 7/8
Today we have another odd-meter Billy Cobham groove from the track “b. Spectrum” from his 1973 album Spectrum: He plays the unaccented notes stronger than is customary today, and puts a light accent on the […]
DBMITW: Billy Cobham
Here’s a live version of another fusion classic: Billy Cobham’s “Anteres” – The Star, from a record I stole from my brother a long time ago, Alivemutherforya: That’s a rare use of the Tama Octobans […]