Style: Jazz, Fusion
Origin: USA/Europe
Touring party: 9
Territory: G/A/S + Eastern Europe, Rest of Europe nonexclusive in coop with Management
Availability: on request  2012

Line up of BILLY COBHAM BAND:
Billy Cobham - drums
Jean-Marie Ecay - guitars
Christophe Cravero - keyboard/violin
Michael Mondesier - bass
Camelia Ben Naceur - keyboards
Junior Gill - stell pan/pan cat

WATCH OUT FOR NEW DVD (Live in Leverkusen) + NEW CD in 2012!

For Drum festivals:
Billy Cobham has special presentation called "One Man Show" .
One Man Show is 75 min. drum presentation by B. Cobham with pre-recorded music by B. Cobham requiring sound system and his personal sound engineer. It's a combination of drumsolo and pre-recorded music.
Travelparty is 3

For Workshops:
Billy continues to conduct master classes for small groups with a set program that can be pre designed and pre-determined in advance. Workshops and Clinics where Billy lectures on various aspects of performance concepts are also part of his presentation.
Workshop/Master Class are available for 75-90 min.


BIO
Ever since his breakthrough in the early 1970s-as a founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and as a drummer/leader whose recordings (such as Spectrum) and powerful, complex style of play exerted a strong influence on the course of jazz and jazz-fusion-Billy Cobham has remained a tireless musical explorer.
Panamanian by birth, a New Yorker by upbringing, and a resident of Switzerland for more than 25 years, Cobham has pursued an ever-broadening, everdeepening engagement with the world not only as a master drummer and percussionist but as a composer, producer, educator, and clinician who gives service through music even as he constantly expands his personal creative expression.
Cobham's newest recording, Fruit from the Loom-released in April 2008 through his own imprint, Creative MultiMedia Concepts, Inc. (CMMC)-is a suitably wideranging representation of his roots and his journeys. He reprises two of his bestknown compositions from the '70s, "Spectrum" and "Crosswinds," by incorporating violin on the former and steel pan on the latter. "I've always found it difficult to focus upon one direction in music," Cobham notes, "so I've resigned myself to projecting ideas and thoughts through a musical kaleidoscope, from Latin to rock and jazz. This version of 'Spectrum' is a testament to that idea."
On the new CD, he also utilizes a string quartet (on "Faia") and percussion ensembles-with Cobham himself playing all the parts on "Samba du Militairestrasse" and Nigerian friends joining him on "Thoughts from Okuta."
Experiences from travels in Brazil are captured in "Eggshells Still on My Head" and "Florianapolis," while the Bocas del Toro islands off the eastern coast of Panama-which Cobham describes as a place where "it is easy for me to relax and generally mellow out"-inspire the buoyant "Sweet Bocas." Fruit from the Loom, dedicated to the memory of Cobham's parents William and Ivy, features support from longtime colleagues including organist Brian Auger, bassists Victor Bailey and Stefan Rademacher, saxophonist Ernie Watts, guitarists Dean Brown and Jean-Marie Ecay, and, on steel pan, Junior Gill.