Billy Cobham (1944) regnes som en av verdens beste og mest innflytelsesrike trommeslagere.
Cobham er rangert som nummer 45 på Rolling Stone sin liste 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time. Han ble innlemmet i Modern Drummer Hall of Fame i 1987 og i Classic Drummer Hall of Fame i 2013.
Innspillinger
Som soloartist / bandleder
Spectrum (1973) Crosswinds (1974) Total Eclipse (1974) Shabazz [live] (1974) A Funky Thide of Sings (1975) Life & Times (1976) The Billy Cobham–George Duke Band: "Live" on Tour in Europe (1976) Magic (1977) Alivemutherforya [live] med Steve Khan, Alphonso Johnson og Tom Scott (1978) Inner Conflicts (1978) Simplicity of Expression: Depth of Thought (1978) B.C. (1979) Live: Flight Time [live] (1980) Stratus (1981) Observations & Reflections (1982) Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie: Smokin’ [live] (Electra, 1982) Warning (1985) Consortium med Johannes Faber (1985) Power Play (1986) Best Of (1987) Picture This (1987) Incoming (1989) No Filters w/Wolfgang Schmid (1990) By Design (1992) The Traveler (1994) Paradox (1996) Paradox, The First Second [live] (1998) Mississippi Nights Live [live] (1998) Focused (1999) Ensemble New Hope Street (1999) North by NorthWest (2001) Drum 'n' Voice (2002) The Art of Three [live] (2002) Many Years B.C. [samling] (2002) Culture Mix (2002) The Art of Five (2004) Caravaggio w/Massimo Colombo (2005) Art of Four [live] (2006) Drum 'n' Voice 2 (2006) Fruit from the Loom (2007) De Cuba y de Panama med Asere (2008) Palindrome (2010) Drum 'n' Voice 3 (Spring 2010) Tales From The Skeleton Coast (2014) Spectrum 40 Live (2015) Compass Point (2013) Drum 'n' Voice 4 (2016) Broad Horizon med Frankfurt Radio Big Band (2016)
Med Dreams Dreams (1970) Imagine My Surprise (1971)
Med Nordic (Tore Brunborg, Terje Gewelt og Bugge Wesseltoft)
Nordic (1996) Off Color (1999)
Sammen med
Stanley Turrentine
Sugar (1970)
Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson
Cherry (1972)
Mose Allison
Western Man (1971) Lessons in Living (1982)
Gene Ammons
Got My Own (1972) Big Bad Jug (1973)
Ray Barretto
The Other Road (1973)
George Benson
Giblet Gravy (1968) White Rabbit (1972)
Bobby and the Midnites
Bobby and the Midnites (1981) Where the Beat Meets the Street (1984)
The Brothers Johnson
Look Out for #1 (1976)
James Brown
Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975 (1996)
Kenny Burrell
Night Song (1969) God Bless the Child (1971)
Cargo
Cargo (1982)
Ron Carter
Uptown Conversation (1970) Blues Farm (1973) All Blues (1973) Spanish Blue (1974) Yellow & Green (1976) New York Slick (1980) Empire Jazz (1980)
Stanley Clarke
School Days (1976) Atlantis with George Duke (1973) Live at the Greek with Larry Carlton (1993)
Larry Coryell
Spaces (1974) The Essential Larry Coryell (1975) Spaces Revisited (1997)
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew (1970) Live-Evil (1970) A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1970) Big Fun (1974) Get Up with It (1974) Circle in the Round (1979) Directions (innspilt 11.3.1960-27.2.1970, utgitt 1980)
Richard Davis
Way Out West (1980) Fancy Free (1977)
Eumir Deodato
Prelude (1972) Deodato 2 (1973) Whirlwinds (1974)
Charles Earland
Intensity (1972)
Gil Evans
Live at the Public Theater (1981)
Fania All Stars
Our Latin Thing (1972) Latin-Soul-Rock (1974)
Roberta Flack og Donny Hathaway
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1980)
Peter Gabriel
Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989)
Johnny Hammond
Breakout (1971) Wild Horses Rock Steady (1971) The Prophet (1972)
Billy Harper
Capra Black (1973)
Donald Harrison
Heroes (2004)
Freddie Hubbard
Sky Dive (1973)
Jackie and Roy
Time & Love (1972)
Milt Jackson
Sunflower (1972)
Jazz Is Dead
Blue Light Rain (1998)
Quincy Jones
The Anderson Tapes (1971) I Heard That!! (1976)
Robin Kenyatta
Gypsy Man (1973)
Hubert Laws
Morning Star (1972) Carnegie Hall (1973)
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Inner Mounting Flame (1971) Birds of Fire (1973) Between Nothingness and Eternity (1973) The Lost Trident Sessions (innspilt 1973, utgitt 1999) Mahavishnu (1984)
Junior Mance
With a Lotta Help from My Friends (Atlantic, 1970)
Arif Mardin
Journey (Atlantic, 1974)
Les McCann
Comment (1970) Invitation to Openness (1971)
John McLaughlin
My Goal's Beyond (1971) Love Devotion Surrender with Carlos Santana (1973) Electric Guitarist (1978)
Mark-Almond Band
Rising (1972) To the Heart (1976)
Jimmy Owens
Headin' Home (1978)
Sonny Rollins
The Way I Feel (1976) Don’t Stop the Carnival (1978)
Michel Sardaby
Michel Sardaby in New York (2002)
Don Sebesky
Giant Box (1973)
Horace Silver
Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968) You Gotta Take a Little Love (1969)
Carly Simon
Hotcakes (1974)
Lonnie Smith
Mama Wailer (1971)
Gábor Szabó
Mizrab (1972)
Leon Thomas
The Leon Thomas Album (1970)
McCoy Tyner
Fly with the Wind (1976)
Miroslav Vitous
Purple (1970)
Grover Washington, Jr.
All the King's Horses (1972) Soul Box (1973)
Randy Weston
Blue Moses (1972)
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