Billy Cobham discography

As leader

As sideman

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)
• Atlanta with George Duke (1983)
• 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

• 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)
• New York Cool: Live at The Blue Note (Half Note, 2005)
• This Is Jazz: Live at The Blue Note (Half Note, 2011)

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)

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 Stanley Turrentine

• Sugar (CTI, 1970)
• Ain't No Way (Blue Note, 1980, recorded 1969)

With Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson

• Cherry (CTI, 1972)

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)

With Paul Winter

• Traps on Sunwheel and on Whole Earth Chant (1972)