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
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, TOM COSTER- 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- GERMANY, 1994 - 15 minutes - Songs: Birdland, Panama 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 - 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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