Word: cobham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what a varied bunch they are. Corea's group, Return to Forever, favors high, light, sugary sonorities and palpitating Latin rhythms. The six-man combo Weather Report, with Shorter on sax, plays with the sweep and sonic power of a full symphony orchestra. Cobham manages to mass his colors with a big-band kind of majesty yet retain the kind of rollicking spontaneity that a Stan Kenton, say, never was able to achieve. Larry Coryell, whose new band, The Eleventh House, plays a tight, virtuosic blend of traditional white rock and jazz, never attended the Davis conservatory...
Even in so broad a musical spectrum-part nostalgia, part status quo, part innovation-the jazz rockers are a stylish group apart. That is due as much as anything to the fact that most of them-Pianists Hancock and Chick Corea, Guitarist John McLaughlin, Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Drummer Billy Cobham-are graduates of the Miles Davis band, where the movement got off the ground back in 1970 with Davis' first all-out fusion of jazz and rock, the double LP album Bitches Brew...
...some of its members worked with Cambridge Republicans on State Senator John Quinlan's recent successful drive to collect signatures on a tough campaign financing initiative petition--the first Harvard-Cambridge Republican joint venture in recent memory. The new Republican state committeeman for the second Middlesex district, Bill Cobham, is a life-long Cambridge resident who hopes to bring other qualified black candidates to judgeships and administrative positions, in line with the state party's traditional emphasis on minority participation. Perhaps most significantly, Glenn Koocher, another life-long Cambridge resident who is vice chairman of the Cambridge Republican committee...
Died. Sir Alan Cobham, 79, pioneer of commercial aviation in the 1920s and '30s, who originated the probe-and-drogue mid-air refueling system still in use today; in Bournemouth, England. Determined to demonstrate the feasibility of long-distance flying, Cobham and his wife in 1927 successfully completed a 23,000-mile flight around Africa in a 1,400-h.p. "flying boat...
...focal point of the Orchestra is the drumming of Billy Cobham. He plays loud, and hard, and joyously. He owns a special kit of clear fiberglass drums: they are louder than any set I've ever heard. Cobham plays full till throughout the set, nearly two hours in some cases. He plays under each soloist, so he must know their intricacies. He can fellow the complexities of tempo, and rhythm changes, as though he were telepathic. I, for one, am sure he is. His showcase was the finale. "The Noonward Race," Every time McLaughlin had an idea, or made...