Billy Cobham

Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker · 1987

Spectrum

Billy Cobham · 1973

Billy CobhamBilly Cobhamビリー・コブハム's 1973 album SpectrumSpectrumBilly Cobham · 1973 remains one of the most influential jazz-rock fusion recordings. With Tommy Bolin, Jan Hammer, Leland Sklar, Joe Farrell, and Ron Carter on the roster, Billy CobhamBilly Cobhamビリー・コブハム's powerful drumming defined the vocabulary of fusion drumming.

— Spectrum (Billy Cobham album), Wikipedia, 2024

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970

Spectrum

Billy Cobham · 1973

Birds of Fire

Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1973

Blues Farm

Ron Carter · 1973

Billy Cobham's 1973 solo debut Spectrum was built to showcase fusion virtuosity, but the drum break from its track 'Stratus' went on to become one of the most sampled beats in hip-hop production. A record made for musicians' musicians quietly became load-bearing infrastructure for an entirely different genre.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970

In a Silent Way

Miles Davis · 1969

Miles's 1969–70 studio experiments fused rock's rhythmic sensibility with jazz improvisation. Bitches BrewBitches BrewMiles Davis · 1970 layered McLaughlinJohn McLaughlinジョン・マクラフリン, CoreaChick Coreaチック・コリア, HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック, and others in simultaneous collective improvisation.

Live-Evil

Miles Davis · 1971

Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット played Rhodes and organ simultaneously at the Live-EvilLive-EvilMiles Davis · 1971 Cellar Door sessions (December 1970). The pianist who would become famously hostile to electric instruments committed to them fully in this band. Under Miles Davis, personal preferences didn't apply.

Black Is The Color

Joe Henderson · 1972

Blues Farm

Ron Carter · 1973

In the Beginning

Woody Shaw · 1965

Mode for Joe

Joe Henderson · 1966

Joe Henderson is remembered as a master tenor and composer. Yet bassist Ron Carter says he never once turned up with enough material — always two songs, ten minutes short — and would ask the band to compose on the spot: 'We're making an LP here, come on, Joe.'

— Statement stmt-ron-carter-on-joe-henderson

Puttin' It Together

Elvin Jones · 1968

Return to Forever

Return to Forever · 1972

Spectrum

Billy Cobham · 1973

Compositions Of Fred Tompkins

Fred Tompkins · 1973

Joe Farrell was blowing tenor in Elvin Jones's hard-bop quartet on Puttin' It Together (1968). Five years later he turns up next to rock guitarist Tommy Bolin on Billy Cobham's Spectrum (1973), one of fusion's landmark records.