Cobham, Billy, 1944-

Name: Billy Cobham
Dates: 1944
Description

Carter, R. All blues, 2011. (drums)
New Grove dict. of jazz: (Cobham, Billy (William C.); b. May 16, 1944, Panama; drummer)
African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cobham, Billy; William Cobham; percussionist, bandleader; born 16 May 1944 in Panama City, Panama; moved with his family to New York when he was three; made his debut playing in public with his father (who was a pianist) when he was eight; as a teenager, he performed with the St. Catherine’s Queensmen, a drum-and-bugle-corps band; he attended the High School of Music and Art in New York, graduating in 1962; he took another major step when he became part of Miles Davis’s innovative Bitches Brew album; in the early 1970s he participated in some of the sessions that resulted in Miles Davis’s Live-Evil (1971) and A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971); he also toured with a group featuring John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana)