Reconnecting With Billy Cobham: His Best Solo Works

Autobiographies are often 500 or 600 pages long – sometimes more than that. Greatest hits albums are double-discs or stretch to 19 or 20 tracks. You can’t help but get the feeling that the artist is most definitely their own biggest fan. Not many are prepared to write a 150 or 200-page memoir but when you find them (as with Hampton Hawes and Chet Baker …