BILLY COBHAM: THE ATLANTIC YEARS 1973-1978
Fully Remastered Eight-Disc Boxed Set Features The Legendary Drummer's Output From Atlantic Records Offered For The First Time Since The '70s
All Titles, Singles And Outtakes Are Available From Rhino On September 25
At the dawn of the 1970s, Billy Cobham built his legend with his bandleader debut, Spectrum . Raw, daring and overflowing with adrenalin, the album topped the Billboard Jazz charts. Having played for Miles Davis, Horace Silver and Mose Allison, Billy Cobham had joined the legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1971, before signing to Atlantic as a solo artist in 1973. Worshipped today as a titan of drumming, Billy Cobham's career is now in its fifth decade.
Celebrating the work of the legendary Jazz musician, Rhino will release the 8-cd boxed set: BILLY COBHAM: THE ATLANTIC YEARS 1973-1978 on September 25. The set will be available for a list price of $59.98 and features:
• Each Atlantic album fully remastered and packaged in a clamshell box featuring mini LP replica sleeves with original artwork and a 60-page, perfect-bound booklet with liner notes and photos from the era.
• Two rare outtakes, 'All 4 One' from the 1973 Spectrum sessions, and 'Neu Rock'n'Roll' from the 1975 A Funky Thide Of Sings sessions.
• The 'Stratus' single edit in mono and stereo from Spectrum (sampled by Massive Attack in 'Safe From Harm'), the 'Crosswind / Le Lis' single from Crosswinds, the 'Moon Germs' single from Total Eclipse and the 'Do What Cha Wanna / Hip Pockets' single from the Live On Tour In Europe (With George Duke) album.
• Collaborations with fellow '70s fusion pioneers Jan Hammer, Tommy Bolin, John Abercrombie, John Williams, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Cornell Dupree, John Scofield and Alphonso Johnson.
THE 8-CD BOXED SET BILLY COBHAM: THE ATLANTIC YEARS 1973-1978
Track Listing:
DISC 1 SPECTRUM:
1. Quadrant 4
2. Searching For The Right Door
3. Spectrum
4. Anxiety
5. Taurian Matador
6. Stratus
7. To The Women In My Life
8. Le Lis
9. Snoopy's Search
10. Red Baron
11. All 4 One
12. Stratus Part I (Mono) Single *
13. Stratus Part I (Stereo) Single *
DISC 2: CROSSWINDS
1. Spanish Moss: A Sound Portrait
2. The Pleasant Pheasant
3. Heather
4. Crosswind
5. Crosswind (Single Edit) *
6. Le Lis (Single Edit) *
DISC 3: TOTAL ECLIPSE
1. Solarization
2. Lunarputians
3. Total Eclipse
4. Bandits
5. Moon Germs
6. The Moon Ain't Made Of Green Cheese
7. Sea Of Tranquility
8. Last Frontier
9. Moon Germs (Single)*
DISC 4: SHABAZZ
1. Shabazz
2. Taurian Matador (Revised)
3. Red Baron (Revised)
4. Tenth Pinn
DISC 5: A FUNKY THIDE OF SINGS
1. Panhandler
2. Sorcery
3. A Funky Thide Of Sings
4. Thinking Of You
5. Some Skunk Funk
6. Light At The End Of The Tunnel
7. A Funky Kind Of Thing
8. Moody Modes
9. Neu Rock & Roll (Outtake)*
DISC 6: LIFE & TIMES
1. Life & Times
2. 29
3. Siesta / Wake Up / That's What I Said
4. East Bay
5. Earthlings
6. Song For A Friend (Part I)
7. On A Natural High
8. Song For A Friend (Part II)
9. Natural Essence - Out Of Darkness (Produced by Billy Cobham)*
10. Natural Essence - It's You I Need (Produced by Billy Cobham)*
DISC 7: LIVE ON TOUR IN EUROPE (WITH GEORGE DUKE)
1. Hip Pockets
2. Ivory Tattoo
3. Space Lady
4. Almustafa The Beloved
5. Do What Cha Wanna
6. Frankenstein Goes To The Disco
7. Sweet Wine
8. Juicy
9. Do What Cha Wanna (Single)*
10. Hip Pockets (Single)*
DISC 8: INNER CONFLICTS
1. Inner Conflicts
2. The Muffin Talks Back
3. Nickels And Dimes
4. El Barrio
5. Arroyo
*Bonus Material
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