Discography

As leader

  • 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] with Steve Khan, Alphonso Johnson and 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 with 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)
  • Nordic (1996)
  • Paradox (1996)
  • Paradox, The First Second [live] (1998)
  • Mississippi Nights Live [live] (1998)
  • Focused (1998)
  • Ensemble New Hope Street (1999)
  • Nordic: Off Color (1999)
  • North by NorthWest (2001)
  • Drum 'n' Voice (2002)
  • The Art of Three [live] (2002)
  • Many Years B.C. [compilation] (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 with 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 with Frankfurt Radio Big Band (2016)
  • Time Lapse Photos (2019)
  • Tierra Del Fuego (2020)

As sideman

With Stanley Turrentine

Sugar (CTI, 1970)

With Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson

Cherry (CTI, 1972)

With Mose Allison

Western Man (Atlantic, 1971)
Lessons in Living (1982)

With Gene Ammons

Got My Own (Prestige, 1972)
Big Bad Jug (Prestige, 1973)

With Ray Barretto

The Other Road (1973)

With George Benson

Giblet Gravy (1968)
White Rabbit (CTI, 1972)

With Bobby and the Midnites

Bobby and the Midnites (1981)
Where the Beat Meets the Street (1984)

With The Brothers Johnson

Look Out for #1 (1976)

With James Brown

Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975 (1996)

With Kenny Burrell

Night Song (Verve, 1969)
God Bless the Child (CTI, 1971)

With Cargo

Cargo (1982)

With Ron Carter

Uptown Conversation (Embryo, 1970)
Blues Farm (CTI, 1973)
All Blues (CTI, 1973)
Spanish Blue (CTI, 1974)
Yellow & Green (CTI, 1976)
New York Slick (Milestone, 1980)
Empire Jazz (RSO, 1980)

With Stanley Clarke

School Days (1976)
Atlantis with George Duke (1973)
Live at the Greek with Larry Carlton (1993)

With Larry Coryell

Spaces (1974)
The Essential Larry Coryell (1975)
Spaces Revisited (1997)

With 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 (recorded 11.3.1960-27.2.1970, released 1980)

With Richard Davis

Way Out West (recorded 1977, Muse, 1980)
Fancy Free (Galaxy, 1977)

With Eumir Deodato

Prelude (1972)
Deodato 2 (1973)
Whirlwinds (1974)

With Dreams

Dreams (1970)
Imagine My Surprise (1971)

With Charles Earland

Intensity (Prestige, 1972)

With Gil Evans

Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980) (Trio, 1981)

With Fania All Stars

Our Latin Thing (1972)
Latin-Soul-Rock (1974)

With Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1980)

With Peter Gabriel

Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989)

With Johnny Hammond

Breakout (Kudu, 1971)
Wild Horses Rock Steady (Kudu, 1971)
The Prophet (Kudu, 1972)

With Billy Harper

Capra Black (Strata-East, 1973)

With Donald Harrison

Heroes (Nagel Heyer, 2004)

With Freddie Hubbard

Sky Dive (CTI, 1973)

With Jackie and Roy

Time & Love (CTI, 1972)

With Milt Jackson

Sunflower (CTI, 1972)

With Jazz Is Dead

Blue Light Rain (1998)

With Quincy Jones

The Anderson Tapes (1971)
I Heard That!! (1976)

With Robin Kenyatta

Gypsy Man (Atlantic, 1973)

With Hubert Laws

Morning Star (CTI, 1972)
Carnegie Hall (CTI, 1973)

With Mahavishnu Orchestra

Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
Birds of Fire (1973)
Between Nothingness and Eternity (1973)
The Lost Trident Sessions (recorded 1973, released 1999)
Mahavishnu (1984)

With Junior Mance

With a Lotta Help from My Friends (Atlantic, 1970)

With Arif Mardin

Journey (Atlantic, 1974)

With Les McCann

Comment (Atlantic, 1970)
Invitation to Openness (Atlantic, 1971)

With John McLaughlin

My Goal's Beyond (Columbia, 1971)
Love Devotion Surrender with Carlos Santana (Columbia, 1973)
Electric Guitarist (Columbia, 1978)

With Mark-Almond Band

Rising (1972)
To the Heart (1976)

With Jimmy Owens

Headin' Home (A&M/Horizon, 1978)

With Sonny Rollins

The Way I Feel (Milestone, 1976)
Don’t Stop the Carnival (Milestone, 1978)

With Michel Sardaby

Michel Sardaby in New York (Sound Hills, 2002)

With Don Sebesky

Giant Box (CTI, 1973)

With Horace Silver

Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968)
You Gotta Take a Little Love (1969)

With Carly Simon

Hotcakes (1974)

With Lonnie Smith

Mama Wailer (Kudu, 1971)

With Gábor Szabó

Mizrab (CTI, 1972)

With Leon Thomas

The Leon Thomas Album (Flying Dutchman, 1970)

With McCoy Tyner

Fly with the Wind (Milestone, 1976)

With Miroslav Vitous

Purple (1970)

With Grover Washington, Jr.

All the King's Horses (Kudu, 1972)
Soul Box (Kudu, 1973)

With Randy Weston

Blue Moses (CTI, 1972)