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Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford grew up with jazz. As an amateur drummer in the 1960s, and after a handful of lessons from Lou Pocock of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he began his professional career in 1968. He was a guiding light in the so-called British "Art Rock" movement, touring internationally with Yes and King Crimson from 1968-74. There then followed several years spent observing and participating in the music making processes of, among others, Gong, National Health, Genesis and U.K., until Bill felt ready to write and perform his own music with his own band Bruford, recording four albums from 1977-80. It was, however, the reconstituted King Crimson of 1980-84 that provided the vehicle for his revolutionary use of electronics in developing the melodic side of percussion
read moreBill Bruford: In the Court of the Percussion King
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in March 2001. A charmed life might be a good way of describing that of Bill Bruford. Always at the center of and driving vastly creative projects, including King Crimson, Yes, Earthworks, Genesis, Bruford, Gong and many other collaborations of like minds, ...
read moreGive the Drummer (More Than) Some! Part 3
More music featuring projects lead by drummers. Drums for civil rights, solos and duos, and poetry drumming. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Terri Lyne Carrington “If Not Now (feat. Maimouna Youssef)" Waiting Game (Motema) 0:16 Host talks 5:42 Max Roach “Driva' Man" We ...
read moreSirkis/Bialas IQ: Our New Earth
A lament for our damaged earth, a prayer for a better future, Sirkis/Bialas IQ's second recording, after its well-received debut Come To Me (Stonebird Productions, 2015), is an ambitious, far-reaching work. Contemporary jazz with a world view, Our New Earth draws from Middle Eastern, Southern Indian carnatic, Eastern European folk and contemporary classical traditions. That it ...
read moreU.K.
U.K. were a British progressive rock supergroup originally active from 1977 until 1980. The band was composed of singer/bassist John Wetton (formerly of King Crimson, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry's band and Uriah Heep), keyboardist/electric violinist Eddie Jobson (formerly of Curved Air, Roxy Music and Frank Zappa's band), guitarist Allan Holdsworth (formerly of Tempest, Soft Machine, The New Tony Williams Lifetime and Gong) and drummer Bill Bruford (formerly a full member of Yes and King Crimson, and also a tour drummer for Genesis), who was later replaced by drummer Terry Bozzio (formerly of Frank Zappa's band)
read morePat Metheny: From This Place
It's been a full six years since Pat Metheny last released a studio recording. This, despite the guitarist who has become, in a career now in the midst of its fifth decade, one of the most famous and influential jazz guitarists of his (or, some would argue, any) generation, reportedly having enough material in the can ...
read moreSheer Reckless Abandon
Label: Summerfold Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1 (In Concert In Holland): Prologue; Game of Chess; Conception; Camilla; Two Left
Shoes; Mister B.B.; Arabian Quest. DVD1: (In Concert In Holland): Prologue; Game of
Chess; Conception; Camilla; Two Left Shoes; Mister B.B.; Arabian Quest: Happenstance (backstages
footage); Peacock Strut (backstages footage); Sintar Klaas is Boos (backstages footage); 'Round
Midnight (backstages footage). CD2 (Every Step a Dance, Every Word a Song: The 16
Kingdoms Of The 5 Barbarians; Bemsha Swing; Inhaling Shade; One Big Vamp; 'Round Midnight;
(Announcement); Every Step A Dance, Every Word A Song; Stand On Zanzibar; Swansong. CD3
(In Two Minds): Kinship; In Two Minds; From the Source, We Tumble Headlong; Flirt;
Low Tide, Camber Sands; The Art of Conversation; Conference of the Bees; Sheer Reckless
Abandon; Duplicity; Shadow Dance; The Odd One Out; All Blues.
Earthworks Complete
Label: Summerfold Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1 (Earthworks): Thud; Making a Song and Dance; Up North; Pressure; My Heart Declares a Holiday;
Emotional Shirt; It Needn't End in Tears; The Shepherd is Eternal; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD2 (Dig?): Stromboli Kicks; Gentle Persuasion; Downtown; Pilgrim's Way; Dancing of Frith Street; A Stone's Throw; Libreville; Corroboree.
CD3 (All Heaven Broke Loose): Hotel Splendour; Forget-Me-Not; Candles Still Flicker in Romania's Dark; Pigalle; Temple of the Winds; Nerve; Splashing Out; All Heaven Broke Loose: (a) Psalm; (b) Old Song.
CD4 (Stamping Ground Live): Nerve; Up North; A Stone's Throw; Pilgrim's Way; Emotional Shirt; It Needn't End in Tears; All Heaven Broke Loose: (a) Psalm; (b) Old Song; Candles Still Flicker in Romania's Dark; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD5 (A Part, and Yet Apart): No Truce With the Furies; A Part, And Yet Apart; Some Shiver, While He Cavorts; Footloose and Fancy Free; Sarah’s Still Life; The Emperor’s New Clothes; Curiouser and Curiouser; Eyes on the Horizon; Dewey-Eyed, Then Dancing.
CD6 (The Sound of Surprise): Revel Without a Pause; Triplicity; The Shadow of a Doubt; Teaching Vera to Dance; Half Life; Come to Dust; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Never the Same Way Once; The Wooden Man Sings, And the Stone Woman Dances.
CD7 (Footloose and Fancy Free Part 1): Footloose and Fancy Free; If Summer Had Its Ghosts; A Part, and Yet Apart; Triplicity; Come to Dust; No Truce with the Furies; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
CD8 (Footloose and Fancy Free Part 2): Revel Without a Pause; Never the Same Way Once; Original Sin; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Dewey-Eyed, then Dancing; The Emperor’s New Clothes; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD9 (Random Acts of Happiness): My Heart Declares A Holiday; White Knuckle Wedding; Turn and Return; Tramontana; Bajo del Sol; Seems Like a Lifetime Ago (Part 1); Modern Folk; With Friends Like These…; Speaking With Wooden Tongues; One of a Kind (Part 1); One of a Kind (Part 2).
DVD1 (Footloose in NYC): Intro; Revel Without a Pause; Never the Same Way Once; Original Sin; Come to Dust; Some Shiver While He Cavorts; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances; The Emperor’s New Clothes; The Shadow of a Doubt; Triplicity; Footloose and Fancy Free; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD10 (Footloose in NYC Part 1): Intro; Revel Without a Pause; Never the Same Way Once; Original Sin; Come to Dust; Some Shiver While He Cavorts; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
CD11 (Footloose in NYC Part 2): The Emperor’s New Clothes; The Shadow of a Doubt; Triplicity; Footloose and Fancy Free; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Bridge of Inhibition.
DVD2 (A Video Anthology Volume 1: 2000s): Triplicity; Original Sin; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Revel Without a Pause; Baja del Sol; Tramontana; Beelzebub; Footloose and Fancy Free; Libreville; Highland Games; Youth; Song; White Knuckle Wedding; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
CD12 (A Video Anthology Volume 1: 2000s Part 1): Triplicity; Original Sin; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Revel Without a Pause; Baja del Sol; Tramontana; Beelzebub.
CD13 (A Video Anthology Volume 1: 2000s Part 2): Footloose and Fancy Free; Libreville; Highland Games; Youth; Song; White Knuckle Wedding; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
DVD3 (A Video Anthology 2: 1990s): Up North; All Heaven Broke Loose: (a) Psalm; (b) Old Song; Stromboli Kicks; Bridge of Inhibition; Emotional Shirt; Candles Still Flicker in the Dark; Nerve; Pigalle; Never the Same Way Once; Some Shiver While He Cavorts; Bridge of Inhibition (Alternative Version).
CD14 (A Video Anthology 2: 1990s Part 1): Up North; All Heaven Broke Loose: (a) Psalm; (b) Old Song; Stromboli Kicks; Bridge of Inhibition; Emotional Shirt; Candles Still Flicker in the Dark.
CD15 (A Video Anthology 2: 1990s Part 2): Pigalle; Never the Same Way Once; Some Shiver While He Cavorts; Bridge of Inhibition (Alternative Version).
CD16 (Earthworks Underground Orchestra): Libreville; Up North; Pigalle; Speaking in Wooden Tongues; Footloose and Fancy Free; Bajo del Sol; It Needn't End in Tears; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
DVD4 (Earthworks in Santiago, Chile): Turn and Return; Revel Without a Pause; Bajo del Sol; Modern Folk; Come to Dust; Triplicity; Seems Lie a Lifetime Ago Pt 1; One of a Kind; The Wooden Man Sings And the Stone Woman Cavorts; Beelzebub; Footloose and Fancy Free.
CD17 (Earthworks in Santiago, Chile): Turn and Return; Revel Without a Pause; Bajo del Sol; Modern Folk; Come to Dust; Triplicity; Seems Lie a Lifetime Ago Pt 1; One of a Kind; The Wooden Man Sings And the Stone Woman Cavorts; Beelzebub; Footloose and Fancy Free.
CD18 (From Conception to Birth): Bridge of Inhibition Demo; Bridge of Inhibition; Pressure Demo; Pressure; Hotel Splendour Demo; Hotel Splendour; Lingo Demo; Lingo; If Summer Had Its Ghosts Demo; If Summer Had Its Ghosts; Original Sin Demo; Original Sin; Footloose and Fancy Free Demo; Footloose and Fancy Free; Triplicity Demo; Triplicity; Banyan Demo.
CD19 (Heavenly Bodies Expanded Part 1): Stromboli Kicks; Making a Song and Dance; Up North; Candles Still Flicker in Romania’s Dark; Pigalle; My Heart Declares a Holiday; Temple of the Winds; Nerve; Gentle Persuasion; It Needn’t End in Tears; Libreville; Dancing on Frith Street; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD20 (Heavenly Bodies Expanded Part 2): No Truce With the Furies; Dewey-Eyed, Then Dancing; A Part, And Yet Apart; Revel Without a Pause; The Sound of Surprise; White Knuckle Wedding; Youth; Rosa Ballerina; Thud; Blues for Little Joe.
Heavenly Bodies – The Expanded Collection
Label: Summerfold UK
Released: 2019
Track listing: Disc 1: Stromboli Kicks; Making a Song and Dance; Up North; Candles Still Flicker in Romania's Dark; Pigalle; My Heart Declares a Holiday; Temple of the Winds; Nerve; Gentle Persuasion; It Needn't End in Tears; Libreville; Dancing on Frith Street; Bridge of Inhibition.
Disc 2: No Truce with the Furies; Dewey-Eyed, Then Dancing; A Part, and Yet Apart; Revel Without a Pause; The Sound of Surprise; White Knuckle Wedding; Youth; Rosa Ballerina; Thud; Blues for Little Joe.
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