Before the Mahavishnu period he also co-founded the fusion band DREAMS which featured figures of the calibre of MICHAEL BRECKER and JOHN ABERCROMBIE also in that band was RANDY BRECKER, DON GROLNICK, BARRY RODGERS and WILL LEE.
It was a giant leap for him, and through Miles Davis he met JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, who would later recruit Billy in the MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA in 1973, one of his most recalled works in the jazz-rock genre. He recorded five albums with Miles, including "Bitches Brew" (in which he was uncredited). His career as a jazz rock artist started with no other than the most talked-about jazz musician of the time: MILES DAVIS. In 1968 he played with various jazz artists, including jazz pianist HORACE SILVER, sax player STANLEY TURRENTINE, organist SHIRLEY SCOTT and guitarist GEORGE BENSON on the album "Giblet Gravy". He graduated in 1962 and began playing in the United States Army Band from 1965 to 1968. He played his first gig with his dad when he was just eight, in New York, 5 years after moving from Panama in 1947.īeyond already having a superb musical ear and dynamic technique, he refined his musical education in the New York's High School of Music and Art, in which he learnt more drumming techniques and music theory. Flirting with congas and steel drums at the early age of five, Billy started his musical career.
Born (Colón, Panama)ĬOBHAM moved to New York City when he was just three years old.
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