NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Billy Cobham on 18 February 2019. Billy Cobham has been played over 70 times on NTS, first on 23 February 2014. Billy Cobham's music has been featured on 65 episodes.

On May 16, 1944, in Panama, one of the world’s most influential drummers, best known for his jazz fusion in the 1970s, Mahavishnu Orchestra, where he pioneered a powerful style of drumming with jazz, rock and funk influences, was born, named Billy Cobham.

He is the first drummer to unseat Buddy Rich in the Down Beat music polls.

Cobham has played and recorded with hundreds of top musicians,…