{"id":3598063,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598063/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-30T16:00:43-08:00","show":65517,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65517/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/b2784fc1-283f-4af7-8dc6-5061764e7076/2980151386-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/b2784fc1-283f-4af7-8dc6-5061764e7076/2980151386-250.jpg","song":"Stratus","track_id":null,"recording_id":"21768e97-2ec8-4934-9083-435042d53283","artist":"Billy Cobham","artist_ids":["255497f8-26fb-4044-b97e-d4787d5974f6"],"album":"Spectrum","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"30074be9-33ed-3b40-998d-ae60ef0ff0b9","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"1973-10-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz drummer. His \"explosive technique powered some of the genre's most important early recordings — including groundbreaking efforts by Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra\" \nhttps://www.bluenote.com/artist/billy-cobham/\n___\nThis album was heavily influenced by the music of Miles Davis, with whom Cobham had previously collaborated extensively, and Cobham's previous band Mahavishnu Orchestra.\n\nThe recording process took place at Electric Lady Studios. According to Leland Sklar it was done in just two or three days and almost every track that ended up on a record was \"first or second take at the most.\"\n\nKen Scott, engineer of Spectrum, recounted: \"Bill Cobham's drums were treated in exactly the same way as I recorded every other drummer. I just used more mics: Neumann U67s on toms, D20s or RE20s (at Electric Lady) on the bass drums, Neumann KM54 or 56 on snare, and either STC 4038s or Beyer M160 ribbon mics for the overheads. One other thing: in order to dampen the snare, Bill just laid his wallet on the top head.\"\n\nLeland Sklar, bassist on four of the songs, remarked, \"Spectrum is such a benchmark for so many people.  There was a sort of fire in it.  It was new ground and it wasn't very analytical. It was more flying by the seat of your pants.  That's where great accidents happen, which seems impossible these days.  We never did more than a couple of takes on any of it.  It was more or less a two-day record.  It went by so fast.\"  https://bit.ly/3jnfTNI","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}