''Total Eclipse'' is the third album of fusion

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Billy Cobham William Emanuel Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was inducted into the '' Mode ...

. The album was released in 1974. It comprises eight songs, all written by Billy Cobham. The album peaked number 6 in the ''

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'' Jazz album chart, number 12 in the R&B album chart, and number 36 in the ''Billboard'' pop albums chart.

Track listing

All selections written by Billy Cobham.

Side one

# "Solarization" – 11:09 #*a. "Solarization" – 3:00 #*b. "Second Phase" – 1:43 #*c. "Crescent Sun" – 2:40 #*d. "Voyage" – 2:56 #*e. "Solarization-Recapitulation" – 0:50 # "Lunarputians – 2:32 # "Total Eclipse" – 5:59 # "Bandits" – 2:30

Side two

# "Moon Germs" – 4:55 # "The Moon Ain't Made of Green Cheese" – 0:56 # "Sea of Tranquility" – 10:44 # "Last Frontier" – 5:22

Personnel

The personnel on all sections is: * John Abercrombie –

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& ovation guitars *

Michael Brecker Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as a performer and composer, received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in ...

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flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

, soprano & tenor saxes *

Randy Brecker Randal Edward Brecker (born November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer. His versatility has made him a popular studio musician who has recorded with acts in jazz, rock music, rock, and R&B. Early life Brecker was ...

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

* Glenn Ferris – tenor & bass

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

s *

– traps,

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, acoustic

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

on "The Moon Ain't Made Of Green Cheese" & "Last Frontier" * Milcho Leviev – keyboards * Alex Blake –

electric bass The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

;Additional musicians * David Earle Johnson –

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

s on "Solarization" & "Moon Germs" * Sue Evans –

marimba The marimba ( ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the mari ...

on "Solarization" *

Cornell Dupree Cornell Luther Dupree (December 19, 1942 – May 8, 2011) was an American jazz fusion and Rhythm and blues, R&B guitarist. He worked at various times with Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis, and Steve Gadd, appeared on ''L ...

– first guitar solo on "Moon Germs"

Credits

* Ken Scott – recording and re-mixing engineer * Bob Warner – tape operator & assistant * Gilbert Stone – cover illustration * Bob Defrin – art direction

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1974 albums Albums produced by Ken Scott Albums recorded at Electric Lady Studios Atlantic Records albums Billy Cobham albums Albums recorded at Trident Studios