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    Posted: January 26 2021 at 10:27
It always Feels Good to Me to give warm praise to some of our much-loved prog artists, and this time it's the turn of the legendary One of a Kind drummer, Bill Bruford. It Seems Like a Lifetime Ago since he was a member of YES and King Crimson, bands of which he was A Part, and Yet Apart from at various times. In the late 1970's,  his beloved Jazz Fusion project came to fruition in the form of Bruford. The third and final mysteriously-titled Bruford album, Gradually Going Tornado (1980), was apparently named after an exhibit by an obscure Romanian artist displayed at a London art gallery in 1974. Bill Bruford teamed up with keyboard wizard Patrick Moraz in the mid-1980's for two experimental albums of Music for Piano and Drums, and the Flags were flying high again for Bill in the late-80's when All Heaven Broke Loose in the progosphere  for the long-awaited Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe album in 1989. Bill was back to his old Stamping Ground of Jazz Fusion in 1987 with the formation of Earthworks, a band you can really Dig. Bill Bruford continues to  impress with Master Strokes of drumming prowess well into the 21st century, and to The Sound of Surprise from many of his fans, he released a traditional acoustic jazz quartet album in 2001. Finally, if you're still In Two Minds about Bill Bruford, then check out any of his jazzy Footloose and Fancy Free albums at the links below. Smile
 
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 3 stars 1983: Moraz-Bruford - Music for Piano and Drums - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKJC3Y0REjhrzuAxCoDYkM-
 3 stars 1987: Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Earthworks - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIMzDx2mM-5GmDKQ_pXCBKQ
 2 stars 1991: Bill Bruford's Earthworks - All Heaven Broke Loose -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIRUb4d3iwW0zfxPfosqvTF
 3 stars 1994: Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Stamping Ground: Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJVkNGiG2BOxXnF7u5RiDiu
 3 stars 1997: Bruford, Towner & Gomez - If Summer Had Its Ghosts - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIn-IqucItCmQ1CZEazIFDS
 2 stars 1998: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIVtH7JPIpVGO05csJO7f5p
 3 stars 1999: Bill Bruford's Earthworks - A Part, and Yet Apart - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLC6cU0I50sSGRP7sJ6nVwC
 3 stars 2000: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - B.L.U.E. Nights - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJFFJKw6BpAndNPm177S-81
 3 stars 2001: Bill Bruford's Earthworks - The Sound of Surprise - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLKqFjeOm_43NUFR9exNTHM
 3 stars 2002: Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Footloose and Fancy Free - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIHpA9eeID9JkbVASKl9SLN
 3 stars 2004: Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Random Acts of Happiness - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpK-pzx_K-NOJKcIzR6lMI3o
 2 stars 2005: Bruford & Borstlap - In Concert in Holland - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpL5hD2oYSRyRE1vdzvORYZk
 3 stars 2006: Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Earthworks Underground Orchestra - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKC00rmZ5QiJvIV9U_kLTMb


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Meh. I'll stick with his recordings from Yes and King Crimson.
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I have the first 3 solo lp's and I quite like them...also interested in the Earthworks series and other jazz fuson things but never bought any....yet.
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Starting with a favourite song and video from the first album....
 
3 stars  Bruford - Feels Good to Me (1978)
 
 


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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

I have the first 3 solo lp's and I quite like them...also interested in the Earthworks series and other jazz fuson things but never bought any....yet.
 
I must confess, I'd never listened to any Bill Bruford albums before today, so I have a lot of catching up to do. Embarrassed


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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Meh. I'll stick with his recordings from Yes and King Crimson.

 
 Really? Some of the stuff he did with Holdsworth is amazing. 
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I had master strokes which was a best of compilation on vinyl. I lent it to my dad and never saw it again. He either lost it or gave it away. Anyway, I never heard much of his solo stuff but I think some of it was good. I met him after an Earthworks show and he was a little bit temperamental. Still a great drummer though.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

I have the first 3 solo lp's and I quite like them...also interested in the Earthworks series and other jazz fuson things but never bought any....yet.

 
I must confess, I'd never listened to any Bill Bruford albums before today, so I have a lot of catching up to do. Embarrassed






I have his albums with,
Yes
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Earthworks


and a few of the solo albums...
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Feels Good to Me and One of a Kind are awesome. Great stuff.
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Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

Feels Good to Me and One of a Kind are awesome. Great stuff.





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  3 stars Bruford - One of a Kind (1979)
 
 
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I met him after an Earthworks show and he was a little bit temperamental.
That's a bit of an understatement.

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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I met him after an Earthworks show and he was a little bit temperamental.
That's a bit of an understatement.

Well, I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt. That said, he did seem like a bit of a hot head or maybe he was just in a bad mood that night. Not sure.


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This is probably my favourite of his solo tracks -


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 2 stars Bruford - Rock Goes to College (1979)
 
 
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 3 stars  Bruford - The Bruford Tapes (1979)
 
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 3 stars Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado (1980)
 
 
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All 3 Bruford studio albums are incredible - especially Feels good to me and One of a kind. 

I also love his Earthworks - great stuff.
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Originally posted by Ruby900 Ruby900 wrote:

All 3 Bruford studio albums are incredible - especially Feels good to me and One of a kind. 

I also love his Earthworks - great stuff.
 
I'm looking forward to digging into all of the Earthworks albums for the first time tomorrow. Smile
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  3 stars Moraz-Bruford - Music for Piano and Drums (1983)
 
 
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