BILLY COBHAM VIDEO SECTIONThe following are commercially released videos which have Billy Cobham on part , or all of them. Please note that videos marked with an asterisk [ * ] have not been authorized by Billy Cobham to have been released and there is currently legal discussions going on about their existence. 1] COBHAM MEETS BELLSON - View Video NTSC1303 - 1986 - 36 minutes * 2] DRUMS BY DESIGN - DCI Music Video VH0109 - 1991 -71 minutes 3] GIL EVANS & HIS ORCHESTRA - View Video NTSC1301 - 1987 - 57 minutes * 4] MAKING OF BURNING FOR BUDDY PT.2 - DCI Music Video - 1994 - 89 minutes 5] ZILDJIAN DAY IN NEW YORK - DCI Music Video VHS020 - 1987 - 62 minutes 6] HERBIE HANCOCK TRIO -Hurricane - with Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock - View Video -57 minutes* 7] BOBBY & THE MIDNITES - in concert - 1991- 55 minutes * 8] LIVE FROM BAHIA - with Coryell, Harrison et al.- 1992- 60 minutes 9] LIVE AT MIDEM - German release - PAL format - 1989 - 47 minutes 10] COMMON GROUND -Warner Bros.- with Dennis Chambers, Tony Royster Jr. - 1999- 67 minutes 11] SALSA - the Film - 1974 concert + historic footage -with Fania All-Stars,El Gran Combo et al -1993- 90 minutes
DVD RELEASE SECTION - Again, those marked with an asterisk have not been authorized for release by Billy Cobham
1] HERBIE HANCOCK TRIO - Hurricane - 2002 release - 2 bonus tracks - 57 minutes + - View Video 2329* 2] BILLY COBHAM'S GLASS MENAGERIE - with Urbaniak,Stern,Goldstein,Landers - from 3/81 - TDK-DVD- 90 " * 3] JACK BRUCE & FRIENDS - Rockpalast - 1980 concert - 60 minutes-5 tracks less than original broadcast - CLASSIC PICTURES DVD 6008X 4] PETE YORK'S SUPER DRUMMING VOL.1 & 2 - with Cobham,Phillips,Bellson,Paice,Bruford,Noya,Schmid,Wolpl Lord,Auger,Powell,Brown and others. DVD re-release of 87-88 recordings.-2002 - 160 minutes -INAKUSTIK 6051 5] GIL EVANS & HIS ORCHESTRA - with Cobham,Brecker Bros.,Landers,Brown,Goldstein,Mainieri,Soloff,Malone and others. DVD re-release of 1-27-83 Lugano,Switzerland concert - 2002 - 58 minutes - TDK DVUS JGEO* 6] LIVE @ THE PALAIS DES FESTIVALS HALL -Cannes 1989 - same as Live At Midem - with Wolpl, Schmidt, Marcotulli, Noya, and Wayne Cobham - 47 minutes - Quantum Leap DJ866 7] CALL AND RESPONSE - with Angelo Kelly - instructional DVD - 2004 - 92 minutes - BESTELL-NR BOE7173 8] BILLY COBHAM'S CULTUREMIX -NEW MORNING,THE PARIS CONCERT - Paris TV 9/02 - with Junior Gill, Stefan Rademacher, Per Gade, and Marcos Ubeda - 115 minutes ---- INAKUSTIK Inak6452 . note -song titles incorrect. 9] JACK BRUCE @ ROCKPALAST - Grugahalle, Essen - 10/19/80 - German TV - with Bruce, Cobham, Sancious, and Clempson - contains one extra track not on original TV broadcast, Facelift 318, and Interview. Also contains 2 additional J.Bruce performances on Rockpalast without Cobham. 2 discs. -293 minutes - PAL - Studio Hamburg Fernseh Allianz 10] BILLY COBHAM & ASERE - A Latin Soul - 3/06 - This DVD contains interviews with Cobham, rehearsal footage, and extracts from the show taken during Billy's 2 week tour with Asere in England and Wales in 2006. It was sold only at the shows. 45" - Songs: Decir Asere, Destinos, Luz Que No Alumbria, Inner City Blues, Llanera, A Favor del Viento, Volando, Habanera, and Romantica. 11] COBHAM MEETS BELLSON - DVD release of the Lugano , Switzerland concert. Same titles and length as the VHS tape. View Video DVD 2303 - 37 minutes plus bonus clip of Bellson Big Band concert at same place. 12] BILLY COBHAM - LIVE AT 60 - Featuring the Culture Mix band with Gill, Rademacher, Gade, and Ubeda . Concert recorded at the New Morning Paris studio in 2004.- 115 minutes - Alfred 75-27935 - songs include Stratus, Red Baron, Volcano, Dessicated Coconuts and Cuba on the Horizon 13] PETE YORK'S SUPER DRUMMING VOL 3 - Cobham, Phillips, Bruford, Bellson, G. Brown, Auger, Lord, Wolpl, Noya, Schmid and others. The remaining footage from 87-88 shows plus bonus DVD. - 2008 - 240 minutes - INAKUSTIK Inak 6065-1. 14] THE AMAZING TRIO - with Billy Cobham, Jean Luc Ponty, and Dr. L. Subramaniam - filmed in India for the Global Music Festival @ the Gateway Of India, Mumbai, 2003 - songs : Conversation, Grasshopper, Ganga - 50 minutes - 2008 release- Includes bonus track Lau Se Lau Jalti Hai by Kavita K. Subramaniam,Bindu Subramaniam and Dr. Subramaniam- Music Today M08002 15] BILLY COBHAM - DRUMS FOR THE SOUL - Live at Drums n' Percussion Paderborn 2005 - private release of Billy solo performance. - 60 minutes - 2007 release - Kultur 71216 16] BILLY COBHAM & ASERE - A Latin Soul - this is the extended release of DVD #10 above. It consists of 3 parts: a] Alma Latina - Billy talks about his Latin roots and his relationship with Asere, b] Cuba a Panama - Asere talk about their relationship with Billy and the project's history, c] Live concert - 61 minute live concert. Songs: Destinos, De Cuba Y De Panama, Inner City Blues, Romantica, Llanera, Solo from the Heart, Volando, Mercedes, Decir Asere . In addition, a bonus CD of 7 songs is also included. Songs: Destinos, Decir Asere, Luz Que No Alumbra, Romantica, Habanera, Billy's Montuno, Destinos Dub . Total video time is 128 minutes. Audio CD is 50 minutes. - 2007 -Astar DVD2 PAL 17] QUINCY JONES - 75TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION- a two DVD set with a multitude of artists performing at Montreux for Quincy. Among them are Herbie Hancock, Lee Ritenour, Chaka Khan, Nathan East, Patty Austin, Al Jarreau, Toots Thielmanns, Petula Clark, James Moody and many more. Billy is on two cuts with drummer John Robinson who plays on everything. Billy also appears in the bonus footage called Thank Q. Total video is about 178 minutes. - 2008 recording released in 2009. - EagleVision EE39185-9 18] BILLY COBHAM & ESPOO BIG BAND - EXTENDED WORKS -
live from Espoo, Finland - recorded April 2005. Special guest Randy
Brecker. Songs: On the Move, Torpedo Flow, Crosswinds,
Stratus, Red Baron, Conundrum, A Story To Tell, Andy Boy . Approx.
80 minutes - 2009 release - PAL - AGA Records LC02348 The following are other video performances that Billy Cobham has performed on. They have been broadcast on commercial, public and cable TV stations. 1] MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA 1 - DAS SONNTAG KONZART - German TV 1972 - 43 minutes-Second half of show with Charles Mingus' band. Short intv. with McLaughlin [with overdubbed German translation. Songs :Meeting of the Spirits > You Know You Know, Dance of Maya, Cobham solo >One Word/Resolution, A Lotus on Irish Streams. Closing credits over last song. 2] MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA 1 - DON KIRSHNER'S ROCK CONCERT - ABC-TV 1973 - 17 minutes - Songs : Sister Andrea , Hope > Celestial Terrestrial Commuters 3] MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA 1 - IN CONCERT - BBC-TV - 8-25-72 - 31 minutes- Songs: Meeting of the Spirits >You Know You Know, A Lotus on Irish Streams, The Noonward Race 4] MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA 1 - ABC'S IN CONCERT - BANANAFISH GARDENS, BROOKLYN , N.Y.- 1973 - 14 minutes - Songs: Hope>One Word, Resolution 5] MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA 1 - SKYTOP, SYRACUSE 1972- 60 minutes- Songs: Meeting of the Spirits>You Know You Know, intv. with McLaughlin, Dance of Maya, intv. with McLaughlin, Dawn 6] COBHAM AT CANNES PT.1- with Wolpl, Schmid, Noya, Marcotulli, and Wayne
Cobham - 30 minutes of music and intv. - Songs: Incoming ,Tinseltown , Two for
Juan, You Within You Within Me 7] COBHAM AT CANNES PT.2 - Same band as above - 20 minutes - Songs: Crosswind, Stratus, Red Baron .The material on parts 1 & 2 are what's on Live at Midem.
8] COBHAM WITH GRATEFUL DEAD - Radio City Music Hall - Dead Ahead Tour- 15 minutes - Songs: Drums and Space > The Other One 9] JACK BRUCE & FRIENDS - SAT. NIGHT LIVE- NBC TV - 8 minutes - Songs : Dancing on Air , Living Without You 10] JACK BRUCE & FRIENDS - ROCKPALAST - GERMAN TV-10/19/80 - 97 minutes - Songs: White Room, Post War, Hit N'Run, Running Back to You, Theme from an Imaginary Western, X Marks the Spot, Dancing on Air, Out to Lunch, Livin' Without You, Politician, Bird Alone, Sunshine of your Love. NSU, Spoonful .See DVD release. 11] BILLY COBHAM'S GLASS MENAGERIE- LIVE AT MONTREUX 1982- 51 minutes - Songs: Nickels and Dimes, Chiquita Linda, M.S.R. , Red Baron, Promise, Some Other Kind, Aroyyo.Missing last 4 songs of complete show. . 12] JAZZ IN CONCERT - GERMAN TV - with Mike Mainieri, Warren Bernhardt and Eberhard Weber- 1983 - 44 minutes- Songs: Flying Colours, Intv. Billy, Sara's Touch, Intv. Mainieri, Rainbows, Intv.Cobham re:photography, Prime Time 13] COBHAM, MCLAUGHLIN, HELBORG - French TV 1984 - 10 minutes- Songs : Blues for LW, Are You the One? 14] EUROPEAN GLASS MENAGERIE -German TV - "15"- 15 minutes- Songs: ?, Trans Tanz 15] COBHAM-DUKE BAND - LIVE AT MONTREUX - 7-6-76 - 87 minutes - Songs:Crosswind/Xena, Panhandler, Juicy, Red Baron, Almustapha the Beloved, Ivory Tattoo, Space Lady, Hip Pockets, Frankenstein Goes to the Disco, Sweet Wine, Life & Times, Encore: Stratus, That's What She Said 16] SHABAZZ - LIVE AT MONTREUX 7/24/74- with Brecker Bros., John Abercrombie, Alex Blake, Glenn Ferris, Milcho Leviev, Lee Pastore - 15 minutes- Songs: Flash Flood, Crosswind, Tenth Pinn . Missing:Shabazz,Pleasant Pheasant, Red Baron, Spanish Moss, Taurian Matador 17] A.M. BUFFALO - with Ira Coleman and Wayne Krantz - 1992- 15 minutes [M&I]- 4 Songs: 18] JOHN HAMMOND SHOW - GERMAN TV- 5 minutes- 1 song 19] BOBBY & THE MIDNITES - ROCK INFLUENCES - hosted by Karla DeVito - 1984 with Cobham,Weir,Cochran, Gardner, and Gradney. - 14 minutes - Songs: Lifeline, Change the World, Rock in the 80's 20] IBANEZ CLINIC - COBHAM, ALPHONSO JOHNSON, BOBBY COCHRAN, BOB WEIR, STEVE MILLER et al.- 60 minutes - Songs: Bahama Mama, ?, I Found Love, ? , ?, Fly Like an Eagle, Blues jam>Keep on Rockin Me Baby, Johnny B.Goode 21] LIVE IN CHILE - COBHAM, JEFF BERLIN, T.LAVITZ - 1988 - 60 minutes - Songs: Between Coming and Going , Boogie on Reggae Woman, Manos de Piedra, Cobham solo > ?, ?, Do You Mean to Imply, Berlin solo [Dixie,Yankee Doodle Dandy], Junkbin Rhapsody, Cobham solo, intv.Cobham 22] MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL - 7/19/78 - SCHEGGE ITALIAN T.V. - With ALVIN BATISTE, RANDY JACKSON, RAY MOUTON, CHARLES SINGLETON, MARK SOSKIN - 11 minutes - Song: Anteres,the Star Missing: On a Magic Carpet Ride, Stratus, Leeward Winds, Burrito Bandito, Puffinstuff, AC-DC. 23] BOBBY & MIDNITES - 1984 video - 3 minutes - Song: I Want to Live in America 24]DOWNBEAT WINNERS POLL 1976 - SOUNDSTAGE -CHICAGO WTTW -60 mins. hosted by Thad Jones and Chick Corea featuring Cobham, Stanley Clarke, George Benson, Gary Burton, Ron Carter, Bill Watrous, Jean Luc-Ponty, and Sonny Fortune. Billy plays on most tunes including : Billy's Bounce, Lopsy Lu, Breezin', Lover Man, Invitation, Nancy with the Laughing Face, Autumn Leaves, and All Blues. 25] HORACE SILVER QNT.- JAZZ OMKRING MIDNAT - 1969 - COPENHAGEN - b&w -35 mins. featuring Silver, Cobham, Bennie Maupin, John Williams, Bill Hardman. Songs: Nutville, Song For My Father 26] JACK BRUCE & FRIENDS - LIVE @ RUTGERS - b&w - 55 minutes - Songs: White Room, Jet Set Jewel, Post War, Born Under a Bad Sign, Politician, Bird Alone, I'm So Glad 27] SPACES REVISITED - With LARRY CORYELL, BIRELLI LAGRENE, RICHARD BONA - 1997 - 19 minutes - Leverkausen, Germany - Songs: The Dragon Gate, Hong Kong Breeze 28] LIVE UNDER THE SKY 92 -LIVE FROM BAHIA BAND with LARRY CORYELL, MARCIO MONTAROYOS, DORI CAYMMI, DONALD HARRISON, ROMERA LUBAMBA, LUIZ AVELLAR, NICO ASSUMPCAO, DJALMA CORREA -Tokyo, 1992 - 22 minutes - Songs: Gabriela's Song, The Crab Peddler, Vera Cruz, Bee Hive 29] JAZZ IS DEAD - 4-22-98 - SET 2 - MARITIME HALL, S.F. - Songs: Space > Terrapin Station, Scarlet Begonias >Bass solo > Scarlet{coda} > She's Leaving Home > Truckin >Drums >Blues for Allah > Dark Star, Encore: Drums > KIng Solomon's Marbles - 96 minutes 30] COBHAM,BAILEY,RYPDAL TRIO - JAZZ FESTIVAL INTERNATIONALES ,also called the AQUA WEIN FESTIVAL- VIERSEN, GERMANY 9/17/94 - 91 minutes - Songs: Free form Jam, Daredevil, Biscuits and Soup, Here Today Gone Tomorrow, the Prayer, Cobham solo into untitled slow piece, Birdland, Panama, Rypdal solo, the Chaser 31] JACK BRUCE & FRIENDS - OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST - UNIV.of SURREY, ENGLAND - 1980 - 35 minutes - Songs: White Room, Hit and Run, Livin'Without Ja, Dancing on Air, For This Way, Theme for An Imaginary Western, Politician 32] SPACES REVISITED - FABRIK CLUB - HAMBURG,GERMANY - 1997 - 58 Minutes - Songs: Hong Kong Breeze, Spaces Revisited et al. 33] JAZZ IS DEAD - AERIAL THEATRE - HOUSTON, TEXAS - 12 Minutes - HHC - Songs: Space> 34] COBHAM-DUKE BAND @ MONTREUX - 7/13/98 - With CARL ORR, STEFAN RADEMACHER - - 105 Minutes - Songs : Life and Times/Rush Hour, Mirage, Geneva, 500 Miles To Go, Walking in Five, From Dust to Dawn, Drum solo/Stratus, Red Baron/Blues Jam joined by Claude Nobs, Les McCann, Gonzalvo Rubicaba, Nesuhi Jam joined by Dave Chambers, Jeff Elliot et al. 35] JAZZ/ROCK HAPPENING - GERMAN TV 1989 - with COBHAM, WOLPL, SCHMID, NOYA, HAFFNER, FALK , and HAENNING -. 60 minutes - Songs include God Knows Why, Stratus/Red Baron,Kalimba de Noya, Come Rain or Come Shine, Put it Where You Want It. 36] JAZZ 606 CLUB - BBC TV - 4/3/98 - with COBHAM, R.BRECKER, HUSBAND, ORR AND RADEMACHER - 10 minutes - Song: Mirage 37] COBHAM, CHICK COREA, AL DiMEOLA - SARDEGNA,ITALY 199? - Duet with Billy and Chick and trio with Al DiMeola - 35 minutes - Songs: , Spain 38] COBHAM PRESENTS NORDIC PROJECT - HENNESBERGET,NORWAY - 10/96 - with BUGGE WESSELTOFT, TORE BRUNBORG,TERJE GEWELT - 106 minutes - Songs: Chief, Prime Time, Fjoff, As First I Saw You, Just a Thought, Was Not Was, Pytti Panna, Folk Tones, By City, Bandits 39] JAZZ IS DEAD - MUSICIANS INSTITUTE, CA. - with ALEX LIGETWOOD on vocals, billed as The All-Star Jam.- 1999 - 45minutes - Songs: Estimated Prophet, Hold Me, Rain Dance, Velocity Sensitive, Still Way Clean and Steely Dan cover 40] COBHAM / NIPPY NOYA - duet at PASIC clinic - Philadelphia -1990 - 55 minutes 41] FESTIVAL ALL-STARS - with COBHAM, FREDDIE HUBBARD, CHARLIE HADEN, JOANNE BRACKEEN, LEW TABACKIN - Montreux - 7/34/83 - 57 minutes - Songs: Rythym-a-ning, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Little Sunflower, Body and Soul, Breaking Point, Haiti B , Birdlike 42] COBHAM / DON MOYE -duet - Rome - Italian TV - 1988 - 8 minutes .Drums & Percussion jam 43] BILLY COBHAM BAND - with GERRY ETKINS, SA DAVIS, GARY FOOTZ, TODD CARLIN - 1978 - Italian TV show called DOC - 20 minutes - 4 Songs including This One's for Armando 44] BILLY COBHAM DRUM CLINIC - with NIC FRANCE and CHRIS WYLES - pro-shot - England - 1981 - 38 minutes - demonstrations and Q & A 45] BILLY COBHAM @ TECHNICS JAZZPORT 2000 - with LONDON SYMPHONY ORCH. - Diechtorhallen, Hamburg - 2 short excerpts and intv.- PAL DVD - 4 minutes 46] CULTURE MIX LIVE IN PARIS 2002 - with PER GADE, STEFAN RADEMACHER, JUNIOR GILL, and MARCOS UBEDA - From a show titled New Morning Vision @ Mezzo - DVD 60" - Songs: Aurora Borealis, Mr.BC, Clairvoyance, Stratus, Dessicated Coconuts, Crosswinds, How Was the Night, Spectrum 47] THE TRIUMPH OF JAZZ - 7/20/03 IN ODESSA ,UKRAINE - with IGOR BUTMAN BIG BAND,RANDY BRECKER,JOE LOVANO,TOOTS THIELMANNS,KEVIN MAHOGANY, DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER - pro shot,Russian TV - Cobham plays in 91"of 3 hr.show - Songs: Some Skunk Funk, Summertime, Everything I Have Is Yours, You're My Centerpiece, There Will Never be Another You, One More For the Road, I Can't Go On, Red Baron, plus 4 more songs,titles unknown, Take the A Train 48] CULTURE MIX LIVE @ B.JAZZ BURGHAUSEN INTERNATIONAL JAZZWOCHE - 2003 - off German TV show Jazz Uder Nie !- with GADE, RADEMACHER, UBEDA, AND GILL - 90" - DVD - Songs: Blue Line, Five Day Run, Red Baron, Sa Pobla, Culture Mix, Dreamers, Red and Yellow Cabriolet, Aurora Borealis, Mr. BC, Dessicated Coconuts/Stratus 49] BOBBY & THE MIDNITES - WORLD OF RHYTHM LIVE 1991 - Switzerland ? - with BOB WEIR, BOBBY COCHRAN, ALPHONSO JOHNSON and DAVE GARLAND - 55" - Songs: At the Festival, Youngblood, Me Without You Without Me, Salt Lake City, It's So Easy to Slip, Bahama Mama, Blues, Book of Rules, Cobham short solo into Josephine 50] LIVE FROM BAHIA - 1992 - 57" - with LARRY CORYELL, DONALD HARRISON, DORI CAYMMI, MARCIO MONTAROYOS, AND OTHERS - Songs: Batucada, Old City New City, Oshym Goddess of Love, Bloco Loco, The Crab Peddler, The Harbor, Bahian Night Walk, Gabriela's Song, Vera Cruz 51] BILLY COBHAM SPECTRUM IN ITALY - 2005 - 90" - with LARRY CORYELL, TOM COSTER, and VICTOR BAILEY - Songs: Crosswind [with Footz tease by Coryell], Voyage to Nowhere, Panama, Low Blow , CORYELL acoustic solo featuring She's Leaving Home and a classical piece, Spaces Revisited, Dana/ COBHAM solo/ Red Baron 52] 1995 TOUR - 3 different performances from the 1995 tour - 60" - All HH cameras - with GARY HUSBAND, STEFAN RADEMACHER, JOE CHINDAMO AND PETER WOLPL - first one 24" two songs ? , and Mushu Creole Blues poor quality - second one 30" from Lucerne VG- Alpha Waves/Fragolino [inc], City Nights, Street Urchin, Panama, Mozaik - third one 7" also Mozaik {Husband drum solo on keys} 53] GEORGE DUKE BAND WITH BILLY COBHAM - Tokyo, Japan 9/20/98 - 73" - excerpts from first Montreux Jazz Festival show ever held in Japan - with NAJEE, RACHELLE FERRELL, PHIL PERRY, ANGELA BOFILL, RAY FULLER, LARRY KEMPEL, JAMES LLOYD, JAMES GILSTRAP, LORRAINE PERRY, EDDIE BACCUS JR., CLAUDE NOBS et al - Cobham on 3 cuts - Songs: Breezy, Talkin', Rush Hour/ Road Rage, Stratus/Red Baron[cut], Welcome To My Love, Every Breathe I Take, One Heart One Love, Call Me, Heal Our Land, Blues Jam 54] WARSAW JAZZ JAMBOREE - Poland 1994 - 52" with GARY HUSBAND, STEFAN RADEMACHER, JOE CHINDAMO AND PETER WOLPL - songs: Alpha Waves, Fragolino, Panama, Stratus/ Red Baron 55] ITALIAN TV FANTASTICO WITH TULLIO DEPISCOPO, MASSIMO VOLPE et al, and conducted by PIPPO BAUDO - 1986 - 10" - song: ? 56] KONGSBERG JAZZ FESTIVAL - June 26-30 , 1974 - Norway - with JOHN ABERCROMBIE, ALEX BLAKE, MILCHO LEVIEV, RANDY BRECKER, MICHAEL BRECKER, GLENN FERRIS - 35 " - songs: Pleasant Pheasant/Red Baron , Tenth Pinn 57] OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST - Rainbow Theatre, London - June13,1974 - with JOHN ABERCROMBIE, ALEX BLAKE, MILCHO LEVIEV, RANDY BRECKER, MICHAEL BRECKER, GLENN FERRIS - 35 " - songs: Shabazz, Tenth Pinn
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