William C. Cobham (born May 16, 1944 in Panama), is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has
called Switzerland home since the late 1970s.Coming to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis
and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham is, in the words of Steve Huey, "generally acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer
with an influential style that combines explosive power and exacting precision.