Results for "Bill Ward"

Hedvig Mollestad: Ekhidna

By GARETH THOMPSON

In 2003, the English writer John Murray published his Booker Prize-listed novel Jazz Etc. It narrated the life and times of a female guitarist, the improbably named Fanny Golightly, from working class Cumbria. One observer in the story describes Golightly's playing thus: “I suppose jazz is the only name for it. It was as delirious as ...

Bill Ward

Bill Ward: From Jazz to Black Sabbath Part 2-2

By JACK GOLD-MOLINA

Part 1 | Part 2 In part one of this interview--which took place on August 10, 2005, the day before Ozzfest pummeled through Seattle with an outstanding line-up that featured Rob Zombie, Shadows Fall, Zakk Wilde's Black Label Society, and Iron Maiden with Black Sabbath headlining and proving once again, after more than 35 years, that ...

Bill Ward: From Jazz to Black Sabbath, Part 1-2

By JACK GOLD-MOLINA

Jazz is no longer the domain of classical purists. Renowned jazz and creative improvisational musicians Daniel Carter and Reuben Radding have both stated in interviews that jazz and creative musicians are increasingly coming out of the rock domain and looking to rock for inspiration, themselves included. The most creative of musicians are no longer content to ...