Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Stromboli Kicks- Anthology Vol 2

[Snardbafulator]

I love Bill Bruford to death -- but is this *repeating* crawl not the most annoying thing anybody's ever seen in a professionally-released video. Why do we need press release commentary, let *alone* a history of Bill's involvement in Genesis of all ancient history, while we're watching/listening to the music? And then, after five minutes of this insufferable nonsense, it starts to *repeat*. Buy the video, it shrieks! What -- the music can't make us want to do that on its own?

[satheist]

Django shows that the tenor horn is a jazz instrument. What a solo.

[yannytheman]

Django Bates and Iain Ballamy :-)

[dogend]

Bates and Ballamy...it doesn't get any better than this!

[battalion30]

Bill's rhythm behind the main melody is fucking hypnotic. Beyond amazing.

[dbeckster]

2:37 reminds me of Trane and Dolphy doing Impressions.

[Timothy1357911]

Except they sounded really really good

[dbeckster]

What do have against John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy? If you truly loved jazz fusion, you should respect the the musicians that inspired these projects.

[Timothy1357911]

hahahahaa I'm saying that Coltrane and Dolphy sounded good man. I love them. Not a hufe fan of this particular video though.

My two cents.

peace

- Tim

[dbeckster]

I'm really sorry, I misunderstood.

[Kohntarkosz]

Does anyone have the clip of Bruford demonstrating the Simmons electronic drums on the TV show Rock School? It must be from about 88 or 89. He demonstrates how he can trigger chords and melodic sequences. He also demonstrates how he can route any sound to any pad by routing the bass drum sound to his snare drum pad, "Suddenly you can play 7 stroke rolls with your bass drum! Forget about that double bass drum technique!".

[Nathantok7]

gahahah, the first thing we see is the anti piracy warning, thats great. oh yeah bruford too, my favorite drummer

[LodoGrdzak]

Thats hot!

[GBJPhotoWorks]

Boy, am I glad to see this posted? I've seen this band many times, usually at small venues, and it is always thrilling. What amazing talents. Unfortunately, I feel Django's horn work was an integral part of Earthworks' sound. Until Papito's post, I'd never heard the term "Peck horn", only the very technical "E-flat Tenor Horn", but whatever you call it, Django could play the hell out of it and more recent Earthworks line-ups suffer for the lack of Django and his horn.

[fizm]

I've always loved Bruford's Earthworks especially the first 2 albums, and you're correct about missing Bates's hornwork; what a unique sound and horn to be using in jazz/fusion/whatever you call Earthworks. The instrumental interplay between Bates and Ballamy was simply incredible.

[Ollielollie]

The band is with Django Bates, Iain Ballamy (sax), Tim Harries (bass). Bill was going through his electronic phase.

[PapitoSlapGuitar]

Django Bates on Peck horn for the win! who's on sax, is that Iain Ballamy?

[ironjones]

Bruford is so great! I'm seeing him in May!

[Flemmingdoerken]

Wow, this was great. Bill Bruford is my favorite drummer.

[tonyfreejazz20]

Great jazz fusion music. Thanks for sharing this clip. Fantastic.