Track Listing

1. Quadrant 4
2. Searching For The Right Door / Spectrum
3. Anxiety / Taurian Matador
4. Stratus
5. To The Women In My Life / Le Lis
6. Snoopy's Search / Red Baron

Product Details

• Released on: 1992-03-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Cobham's first album as a leader, in 1973, is a jazz-rock classic. As on his slightly earlier outings with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham dazzles with rapid-fire pyrotechnics. But, listening carefully, he also does his job of rhythmic support--for this, he calls on his roots in drum-corps and Latin timbale drumming. His compositions here set fire to a stunningly tight band. The scowling, scurrying, skirmishing performance by the late rock-guitar ace, Tommy Bolin, is particularly memorable. He merges beautifully with Cobham's Mahavishnu bandmate, Jan Hammer (Moog/keyboards), who eggs Bolin on with warp-speed synthesized guitar sounds. The band was just as involved rhythmically as McLaughlin's but had a gritty rapid-transit flavour where Mahavishnu was on a spiritual quest. --Peter Monaghan

Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Ex-batteur du groupe de Miles Davis, de Dreams (avec les frères Brecker) et surtout du Mahavishnu Orchestra (en compagnie de John McLaughlin), l'américain Billy Cobham fut à la pointe des recherches jazz en terme de fusion entre ce courant et le rock, qui commençait à envahir les charts du début des années 70. À la séparation du Mahavishnu Orchestra, en 1973, Cobham choisit, rapidement, d'enregistrer un album solo, afin de poursuivre ses recherches. Il s'entoure de compagnons de choix (Jan Hammer, Ron Carter mais aussi étonnement Ray Barretto) pour un album de pure fusion où la virtuosité rivalise avec l'efficacité. Tous ces "enfants" de Miles Davis apportent une touche de fraîcheur à un genre qui allait considérablement perdre de son allant au cours de la seconde moitié des années 80. C'est d'ailleurs dans ce cadre temporel que Cobham allait se relancer en créant un groupe nommé... "Spectrum" (1975). --Eric Frank

Album Description
Spectrum is an instrumental jazz fusion release from the great drummer Billy Cobham, who wrote all the tunes on the record, which many critics and fans consider to be his best. Fresh from his success with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham delivers high-quality compositions (which include 'Quadrant 4' and 'Red Baron) make this fusion set a standout, a strong mixture of rock-based rhythms and jazz improvisation. Of special interest to guitar fans, Spectrum also features the legendary Tommy Bolin on guitar and Jan Hammer playing his guitar-like licks on Moog synthesizer, electric piano and acoustic piano. WSM. 2005.