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...Hendrix's Axis: Bold as Love, Birds of Fire by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Sgt. Pepper by the Beatles...
...jaded audiences may not find Balm as shocking as did those who saw it when the then unknown Wilson first produced it in 1965. Still, the Alley Theater production commands attention because, at its best, it displays the sweep and energy of a symphony orchestra--or perhaps the Mahavishnu Orchestra. At its least, Balm in Gilead is an entertaining evening of voyeurism, a chance to go slumming without going farther than Inman Square...
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...
Billy Cobham: Total Eclipse (Atlantic; $6.98). An alumnus of Miles Davis and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham evolved from a progressive rhythm-and-blues drummer to a deft jazz writer-arranger. His music, often danceable, reflects Caribbean and Latin American rhythmic and tonal influences. Solarization, a 10½-minute elaboration of a five-note motif, is sometimes ruminative, but at other times radiates sizzling sensuality...
Classical rock is something well above and beyond the familiar, and often appalling, stylistic melange known as jazzing the classics. It draws on classical style and technique in much the same way the Stones draw on blues, The Band on country, or John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra on jazz. Its sound has a white, diatonic, often ethereal quality that could never be confused with anything rooted in the Mississippi Delta or North Carolina backwoods. What certifies it as rock is its tight hold on the big beat. "We could jam with the Grateful Dead," says Guitarist Greg Lake...