The legendary Billy Cobham, with his matchless, dazzling, ambidextrous skills as a drummer, has applied the same insistent fervor to his long list of monumental achievements. Hes an accomplished ...

When we think of the most far-out musicians in the universe, primarily we think of guitarists and keyboardists, of sound-controllers so attuned to their vast collections of instruments and gadgets ...

California-based music education technology company ArtistWorks has opened the ArtistWorks Drum Academy today with the launch of online drum schools from two of the world's top drummers: ...

Undeniably one of the greatest drummers of all time, Billy Cobham elevated the art of jazz- fusion drumming to new heights leaving a legacy that has inspired his peers and contemporaries for decades.

Billy Cobham was one of the pivotal figures in the creation of the jazz-rock strain that came to be called fusion, holding down the drum chair in bands led by Miles Davis and John McLaughlin. Over the ...

It started, as most things do for musicians, with Billy Cobham trying to make sure he could get another job. The year was 1973, and Cobham knew the world-shaking jazz fusion band he had co-founded ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When drummer Billy Cobham released his first solo album, Spectrum, in 1973, jazz-rock was at something of a ...

From his 1970s breakthrough as a founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra to his influential role as a leading drummer in the style of jazz and jazz-fusion, Billy Cobham remains a powerful musical ...

If you’re going to take advice about hiring a new musician, you could do much worse than getting the lowdown from Future Man. Drum icon Billy Cobham had been on the lookout for a fabled bassoon player ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Billy Cobham was the first drummer to combine jazz, funk and rock into a style that never abandoned itself to ...