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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

Rock Goes To College

By BILL BRUFORD

Label: Winterfold Records
Released: 2020

Temples of Joy

By BILL BRUFORD

Label: Winterfold Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD1 (Music for Piano and Drums): Children's Concerto; Living Space; Any Suggestions?; Eastern Sundays; Blue Brains; Symmetry; Galatèa; Hazy; Blue Brains (bonus); Flags (bonus); Hazy (bonus).

CD2 (Flags): Temples Of Joy; Split Seconds; Karu; Impromptu, Too!; Flags; Machines Programmed By Genes; The Drum Also Waltzes; Infra Dig; A Way With Words; Everything You've Heard Is True; Eastern Sundays (bonus); Children's Concerto (bonus); Galatèa (bonus).

CD3 (In Tokyo): Blue Brains; Hazy; Eastern Sundays; Cachaça; Galatèa; The Drum Also Waltzes; Flags; Children's Concerto; Jungles Of The World; Temples Of Joy.

Double Time

By BILL BRUFORD

Label: Winterfold Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD (Winterfold Collection): Back To The Beginning; Seems Like A Lifetime Ago Pt.1; Seems Like A Lifetime Ago Pt.2; Hell's Bells; Travels With Myself, And Someone Else; Age Of Information; The Sliding Floor; Symmetry; Blue Brains; Flags; Everything You've Heard Is True; Sample And Hold; Adios A La Pasada. DVD: Bruford and the Beat.

King Crimson: The Complete 1969 Recordings

By JOHN KELMAN

There will, inevitably, exist some cynics who will dispute the first comment about King Crimson's long-awaited The Complete 1969 Recordings box set, but it's difficult to imagine it being anything but the plain truth. This is, indeed, the definitive final word on the band's first lineup, collecting multiple versions of its earth-shattering 1969 Island Records debut, ...

Jakko M. Jakszyk: Secrets & Lies

By JOHN KELMAN

Life often unfolds in unexpected ways. For some, like Jakko M. Jakszyk, it has taken some truly surprising twists and turns. That the 62 year-old multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter has attained considerably greater visibility in the last ten years than in the previous 35 has, to say the least, righted a significant wrong. Which makes the ...

Take Five with AXIOM

By AAJ STAFF

Meet Axiom Founded and brought together by brothers Pete and Phil Templer, guitarist/composer and drummer/percussionist/composer respectively, the goal was to establish a creative and engaging environment to present a dynamic musical experience to audiences of all types. Pete and Phil both hail from the Midwest where they began their musical journey studying and playing ...

Django Bates: 60+40—Charlie Parker: 100

By VIC ALBANI

Nel nefasto 2020 molte celebrazioni, anniversari e festival a tema hanno dovuto arrendersi all'emergenza Covid-19 anche se, in calendario, ne sono rimasti alcuni davvero irrinunciabili. Uno di questi è il centenario della nascita del signor Charlie Parker, nato a Kansas City il 29 agosto 1920 e scomparso poi a New York nella primavera del 1955. Ad ...