In this DVD, Billy Cobham performs his own compositions with the world famous Espoo Big Band from Finland. As a composer with strong roots in the jazz and Latin music, Cobham processes 40 years of musical experience and creativity with pulsating orchestra arrangements.

"It's a sound reflection of an extraordinary person and musician, who lives and writes a big chapter of music history. Make music of my life for your life. Things I express and pass on are the mirror of my personality and my experiences. That is all I can express... What makes a band very special are not the particulars, but this music, which develops at the community level... If each individual plays well enough , in order to sound good as a band, nobody in the audience will remember who the individual persons are" — Billy Cobham

For Billy Cobham the big band is probably the most difficult platform to unite individual ambitions with the requirements of the band as a whole. The band has a very important role in this concert. Billy Cobham mentions that four elements are necessary to create a very good band : musicality and the choice of musicians; companionship and mutual respect between the musicians on-stage and backstage; collective creativity and fantasy; and finally time, which allows a band to grow like a fine wine.

The concert at the Espoo Jazz Festival unites these elements with adorable compositions like "Red Baron", "Conondrum" and "Stratus" to unique portrait of music.

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