As the sixties became the seventies Billy Cobham became a member of another style-setting group led by Miles Davis and participated among other things in the transformational jazz-rock album Bitches Brew. A year later together with John McLaughlin he founded the cult group Mahavishnu Orchestra. There he played alongside Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman and Rick Laird. The turbulent year of 1974 brought with it the breakup of the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, but also the album Crosswinds, the first of a series of recordings documenting the original creative journey of Billy Cobham.
Billy Cobham is convinced that everything happens at the right time and place in life. Sometimes everything happens and is completed in a single moment, while at other times it may be only a fragment of the original idea of something more complex, which needs to mature. Crosswinds reflects Cobham’s old search, the aim of which has only now come into focus – the desire to achieve peace of mind and the chance without hurrying to enjoy and process visual experiences. The current Crosswinds Project also shows Cobham’s mature capacity for bringing to audiences the sound equivalent of what they see around them.
