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All photographs by kind permission of Jeffrey Moellering / Snapzalot.com Billy Cobham and his cohorts put on an absolute master class Saturday night, September 21, … Continued

I owned a small record store in Tampa in the ’70s (School Kids Records). I had numerous hip customers who would turn me on to … Continued

Words and photographs by Hillary Carpenter We’ve (presumably) all been to a concert. We paid our money, endured the security shakedown, found our seats and/or … Continued

We caught up with Billy Cobham somewhere near the Georgia-South Carolina border. He and his Crosswinds Project bandmates were en route from Thursday’s Howard Theater … Continued

The year was 1995, and I had just made my first connection with tapers, scoring a copy (on cassettes, of course) of the last Grateful … Continued

Feature image by kind permission of Olga Karpova | JazzMap.ru The first four dates of Billy Cobham’s Crosswinds Project are in the record books, with … Continued

It is interesting that people do not go to jazz concerts to see the featured artists breathe fire, wear wild costumes, prance around knee-deep in … Continued

Honestly, anywhere else on the planet the list of 56 bands and performers at this year’s Suwannee Hulaween would have been enough. That Umphrey’s McGee … Continued

Los Angeles indie rockers Wallows hit Columbus, Ohio, on September 7 near the end of their Nothing Happens tour. Anthony Perrin was there to catch … Continued

It’s NOT Billy Cobham’s birthday today (September 15), but it IS his birthday year, and he will celebrate 75 years on the planet tonight at … Continued