Category Bill Bruford
The Pete Roth Trio featuring Bill Bruford @ 606, 27 November 2024
Rock and pop musicians make comebacks all the time – in jazz, it’s almost unheard of. Reading drum legend Bill Bruford’s fine autobiography, there was no doubt he’d had his fill of the music business when he officially retired from performance on 1 January 2009 (his last Earthworks gig took place the previous July). Away […]
Bruford: One Of A Kind Revisited
In the late 1980s, some ‘long-lost’ cult tracks took on almost mythical status amongst my musician friends and I. There was Frank Zappa’s ‘The Black Page’, Rush’s ‘YYZ’ and ‘La Villa Strangiato’, UK’s ‘In The Dead Of Night’ and Bill Bruford’s ‘Five G’ and ‘Travels With Myself And Someone Else’. Guitarist Allan Holdsworth, who died […]
Sounds Of Surprise 