Billy Cobham Crosswinds Project
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Oct 3–6, 7:30 pm & Oct 4–5, 9:30 pm, ended Oct 6, 2019
Jazz Alley
Belltown (Seattle)
$35
Billy Cobham may be 75, but the jazz-fusion drummer who kept mind-boggling time for Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis during the latter’s most turbulent period of innovation (circa Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and Get Up with It) is still going strong. Cobham’s Crosswinds Project focuses on the 1974 LP Crosswinds, a much mellower record than his phenomenal solo debut, Spectrum; for example, the Souls of Mischief sampled the ultra-chill “Heather” for their classic “93 ’Til Infinity.” But “The Pleasant Pheasant” rolls out action-packed, Latinate funk (which Eric B. & Rakim sampled for “Juice [Know the Ledge]”), and much of the album occupies a rarefied space where virtuosity intersects with dramatic dynamics and sophisticated emotion. The great Randy Brecker joins Cobham on trumpet for this tour.
by Dave Segal