Billy Cobham – Total Eclipse
Label:
Atlantic – SD 18121, Speakers Corner Records – SD 18121
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180g
Country:
Germany
Released:
Sep 2021
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Fusion, Jazz-Rock
Tracklist
Solarization
A1-a Solarization
Congas – David Earle Johnson
Marimba – Sue Evans
3:00
A1-b Second Phase 1:43
A1-c Crescent Sun 2:40
A1-d Voyage 2:56
A1-e Solarization-Recapitulation 0:50
A2 Lunarputians 2:32
A3 Total Eclipse 5:59
A4 Bandits 2:30
B1 Moon Germs
Congas – David Earle Johnson
Guitar [First Guitar Solo] – Cornell Dupree
4:55
B2 The Moon Ain't Made Of Green Cheese
Piano [Acoustic] – Billy Cobham
0:58
B3 Sea Of Tranquility 10:44
B4 Last Frontier
Piano [Acoustic] – Billy Cobham
5:22
"Total Eclipse" - Billy Cobham (dr, p, arr); Mike Brecker (fl, ss, ts); Randy Brecker (tp, fgh); Glenn Ferris (tb); Milcho Leviev (keyb); John Abercrombie, Cornell Dupree (g); Alex Blake (b); David Earle Johnson, Sue Evans (perc)
Ever since his time with John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra (1971–1973), the drummer Billy Cobham is one of electric fusion jazz’s greatest heroes. "Total Eclipse" was the third album he made as a leader within just a few months, and here again he composed all the numbers himself. In the opening 'suite' entitled "Solarization" (eleven minutes long) he already shows his broad and certainly refined stylistic spectrum. Cobham’s music leaps from high-energy jazz-rock with wild guitar and thundering volleys on the drums to highly original improvisations on the piano and winds. Smooth electric Latin grooves and gripping funky numbers are not missing either. Cobham’s handpicked band is bursting with virtuosos. A look at the names of the three-man wind section proves the point: Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Glenn Ferris are highlights in themselves. And the then 30-year-old band leader himself was the non plus ultra when it came to jazz-rock drumming technique – his amazingly rapid drum volleys are just as sensational today as they were then. With this album this exceptional drummer will thrill all fans of first-class fusion sound similar to Weather Report or Return To Forever.
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.
All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.
Recording: 1974 Atlantic Recording Studios and at Electric Lady Studios, New York, N.Y. by Ken Scott
Production: Billy Cobham & Ken Scott
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