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Bill Bruford's Earthworks: Earthworks Complete

By JOHN KELMAN

Since retiring as a professional musician in 2009, progressive/art rock turned jazz drummer Bill Bruford has successfully managed to maintained a place in the public eye. Beyond his engaging, informative and successful Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Jawbone Press, 2009), the drummer/percussionist has more recently released a second, equally captivating book, Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer ...

Bruford-Borstlap: Sheer Reckless Abandon

By JOHN KELMAN

One of the great joys of music can be that of distance: coming back to a piece of music, a musician/group or a discography, even, years later to rediscover it anew. While returning to music after a break of months, years...even decades...is not always a revelation, it's likely true that, if the music was appealing the ...

Chris Squire: Fish Out of Water (Deluxe Edition)

By JOHN KELMAN

If ever there were an album that deserved the deluxe treatment, it would be Fish Out of Water (Atlantic, 1975), which would turn out to be (more or less) the only solo album ever released by Yes co-founder and electric bass trailblazer Chris Squire. There was a special remastered edition released in 2007 by Castle Music, ...

Jeff Berlin: Joe Frazier Round 3 (CD Single)

By JOHN KELMAN

In the world of music, there are plenty of “could have beens," but far fewer “should have beens." Count Jeff Berlin amongst the latter. The American electric bassist first made a number of marks in the second half of the musically innovative 1970s on a series of '76 recordings by singers Patti Austin and Esther Phillips, ...

John Kelman's Best Releases of 2017

By JOHN KELMAN

For those who may have noticed, there have been no best of lists coming from yours truly since 2014; sadly, the chronic health problem that has reduced my previous writing pace to a crawl continues without much respite. My best of the year lists have always been predicated upon having reviewed the releases chosen, and with ...

Bruford: Seems Like a Lifetime Ago 1977 - 1980

By JOHN KELMAN

With the plethora of box sets being issued these days with new masters and, perhaps even more importantly, new mixes of classic recordings, it was inevitable that the small but significant discography of drummer Bill Bruford's first steps into a solo career with his band Bruford should finally get the deluxe treatment. Seems Like a Lifetime ...

The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever!

By JOHN KELMAN

In a time when album sales are a challenge being mitigated, at least to some extent, by the release of deluxe editions and box sets, it's still more necessary than ever to grab potential listeners with imagery and words; the title of a box set can have, especially for those less than intimately familiar with the ...

John Greaves al Fasano Jazz

By CLAUDIO BONOMI

John Greaves Fasano Jazz Teatro Sociale Fasano (BR) 14.05.2016 Come ha scritto una volta Aymeric Leroy, scrittore e profondo conoscitore della scena rock britannica, John Greaves è un musicista che ha trascorso la sua gioventù a suonare le composizioni ultracomplesse di gruppi come Henry Cow e National Health e ...

Allison Au Quartet: Forest Grove

By DAVE WAYNE

The sheer number of great young jazz musicians coming out of every corner of the world is simply staggering. Allison Au is an alto saxophonist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada whose debut album, The Sky Was Pale Blue, Then Grey (Self-Produced, 2014) was nominated for a Juno Award: Canada's equivalent of a Grammy nomination. Her new album, ...