Cobham, Billy

LC control no.	n 83196104
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Cobham, Billy *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Cobham, William Cobham, Bill
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1944-05-16
Place of birth	Panama (Panama)
Affiliation	High School of Music and Art (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupation	Drummers (Musicians) Percussionists Band directors
Found in	His Smokin' [SR] c1983: labels (Billy Cobham) container (percussion) side 2 label, contents (William Cobham) Cobham, B. Spectrum [SR] 1991?, p1973: label (Billy Cobham; William E. Cobham, Jr.) insert (percussion) New Grove dict. of jazz (Cobham, Billy (William C.); b. May 16, 1944, Panama; drummer) Benson, G. White rabbit [SR] 2011: container (Bill Cobham, drums; Billy Cobham) Int. ww in pop. mus., 12th ed. (Cobham, William (Billy) Emmanuel, Jr.; b. May 16, 1944, Panama; musician (drums)) Grove music online, Feb. 2, 2012 (Cobham, Billy (William); b. May 16, 1948 [sic], Panama; American drummer) Billy Cobham WWW site, Feb. 2, 2012 (Billy Cobham; b. May 16, 1944, Colón, Panama) 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)