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Multiple Reviews

Bill Bruford's Earthworks: All Heaven Broke Loose / Stamping Ground

by John Kelman
October 9, 2005

Part 1 | Part 2As described in an earlier review of his first round of Earthworks reissues, drummer Bill Bruford considers 1987 as something of a fence constructed in his career—the year where he, at least from the perspective of his own work, stopped being considered a rock drummer, becoming a jazz drummer. Walking away from “all guitars and electric" towards “all saxophones and acoustic," it's a distinction made only by people who need to stylistically pigeonhole an ...

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Bill Bruford: Feels Good to Me and One of a Kind

by John Kelman
April 24, 2005

Part 1 | Part 2 With a career that first defined by his metrically-challenging work and instantly recognizable drum sound with progressive rock groups Yes and King Crimson, nothing could have prepared anyone for the surprise of drummer Bill Bruford's first solo release, Feels Good to Me. While Bruford's signature style--a mathematically-precise approach that never failed to find the innate groove in even the most complex of time signatures--was in clear evidence, the album didn't sound like ...

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Bill Bruford's Earthworks: Earthworks & Dig?

by John Kelman
April 23, 2005

Part 1 | Part 2 According to drummer Bill Bruford, the year 1987 was considered something of a fence constructed in the middle of his career—the year where he, at least from the perspective of his own work, stopped being considered a rock drummer (albeit a progressive one at that) and became a jazz drummer. With the formation of the first of his Earthworks bands, Bruford apparently walked away from “all guitars and electric" towards “all saxophones and ...

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Film Review

Bill Bruford & Michiel Borstlap: In Concert In Holland

by John Kelman
March 19, 2005

Bruford | BorstlapIn Concert In HollandSummerfold Records 2005 2005 seems to be the year of Bill Bruford. The drummer who first made his name with groups like Yes and King Crimson, but has more recently been heard in a looser improvisational context that might be considered jazz but also demonstrates elements of things farther afield, has a number of releases on the go. On his fledgling Winterfold and Summerfold labels fans will get the opportunity, ...

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Album Review

Bill Bruford/Michiel Borstlap: Every Step a Dance, Every Word a Song

Read "Every Step a Dance, Every Word a Song" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 15, 2005

Drummer Bill Bruford has certainly come a long way since his emergence with Yes in the early '70s. While his interest in jazz was evident in the improvisational aspect of his 25-year association with King Crimson, his mathematical sense of precision and disposition towards mind-boggling subdivisions of rhythm often precluded the kind of elasticity required to approach the looser demands of jazz. As early as '83, however, Bruford was experimenting with the intimate conversational nature of the duo on recordings ...

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Winterfold Reissues Two By Patrick Moraz and Bill Bruford

by John Kelman
December 19, 2004

For drummer Bill Bruford, known for his work with progressive rockers King Crimson and Yes, but perhaps someone who should be more duly considered for his recent forays into jazz with his Earthworks band, currently featuring British woodwind multi-instrumentalist Tim Garland, the creation of his own record label seems, as it has for many artists including Dave Holland and Dave Douglas, the next and right logical step. But with a diverse catalogue of projects that stretches back nearly 30 years, ...

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Extended Analysis

The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson: Volume One 1969-1974

by John Kelman
December 11, 2004

Of all the groups to emerge from the late '60s-early '70s heyday of British Progressive Rock (capitals fully intended), no group has reinvented itself more frequently and, perhaps, more rapidly than King Crimson. As time has gone on the group's ostensible leader Robert Fripp has refashioned the group through periods of high melodrama to nuevo metal and just about everything in between. Until recently, new fans who wanted an overview of the band had to satisfy themselves with the 4-CD ...