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Although Art Blakey has zipped up his cymbal bags and gone away, ample percussive talents have arrived in Boston to fill the void. Billy Cobham is playing tonight at the Paradise, and Jack DeJohnette is appearing tomorrow night at the Berklee Performance Center with John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez, Lester Bowie, and special guest bass player Eberhard Weber...
...Cobham has played with the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, a post-"Bitches' Brew" group that helped to influence the developing jazz-rock fusion of the early '70s. He has also played with Stanley Clarke on Clarke's "School Days," a very funky album in which Cobham enjoys setting forth basic funky rhythms and varying them, complicating them, creating a funk-avant-garde feel. Essentially, that is what Cobham plays; funk-avant-grade, jazz-rock. His album titles speak for themselves: "Funky Thide of Things," "Shabazz," "Spectrum...
...outside this week with Cobham and DeJohnette, you can tune yourself back in on Sunday. It has been a great honor...
...Billy Cobham--The Paradise...
...disjointed Down Under western tries to duplicate the rough edges of a folk ballad, placing Morgan's exploits in a context that is both romantic and social. Much time is expended depicting the primitive qualities of colonial justice, while government authorities are depicted, predictably, as brutal lunatics. Superintendent Cobham of the Victorian police (played with flush, fruity menace by Frank Thring) supervises Morgan's eventual capture and execution, then ships his head to an anatomy professor in Melbourne. The professor has a curious theory-he thinks Morgan could be half ape. The superintendent keeps Morgan's scrotum...