Billy Cobham Total Eclipse

High Quality Pure Analogue 180g Vinyl LP!
Ever since his time with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra (1971-1973), drummer Billy Cobham is one of electric fusion jazz's greatest heroes. Total Eclipse was the third album he made as a leader within just a few months, and here again he composed all the numbers himself. In the opening 'suite' entitled "Solarization" (eleven minutes long) he already shows his broad and certainly refined stylistic spectrum. Cobham's music leaps from high-energy jazz-rock with wild guitar and thundering volleys on the drums to highly original improvisations on the piano and winds. Smooth electric Latin grooves and gripping funky numbers are not missing either. Cobham's handpicked band is bursting with virtuosos. A look at the names of the three-man wind section proves the point: Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, and Glenn Ferris are highlights in themselves. And the then 30-year-old band leader himself was the non plus ultra when it came to jazz-rock drumming technique - his amazingly rapid drum volleys are just as sensational today as they were then. With this album this exceptional drummer will thrill all fans of first-class fusion sound similar to Weather Report or Return To Forever.
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.

Features:

• 180g High Quality Vinyl
• Pure Analogue
• Made from the original, analogue master tapes
• Recorded by Ken Scott in 1974 at Atlantic Recording Studios & Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY
• Produced by Billy Cobham & Ken Scott

Musicians:

• John Abercrombie, electric & Ovation guitars
• Mike Brecker, flute, soprano & tenor saxes
• Randy Brecker, trumpet, flugelhorn
• Glenn Ferris, tenor & bass trombones
• Milcho Leviev, keyboards
• Alex Blake, electric bass
• Billy Cobham, traps, tympany, acoustic piano on "The Moon Ain't Made Of Green Cheese" & "Last Frontier"
• David Earle Johnson, congas on "Solarization" & "Moon Germs"
• Sue Evans, marimba on "Solarization"
• Cornell Dupree, first guitar solo on "Moon Germs"

Selections:

Side A
Solarization
1a. Solarization
1b. Second Phase
1c. Crescent Sun
1d. Voyage
1e. Solarization recapitulation
2. Lunarputians
3. Total Eclipse
4. Bandits
Side B
1. Moon Germs
2. The Moon Ain't Made Of Green Cheese
3. Sea of Tranquility
4. Last Frontier