Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Some Shiver, While He Cavorts (Sofia, Bulgaria, 30th October 1999)
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This is Earthworks blowing off steam in Bulgaria at one of any number of gritty European Jazz Festivals that the band was regularly doing at the turn of the millennium. We have Patrick Clahar (tnr sax), Steve Hamilton (pno) and Mark Hodgson (bs); myself on tubs and I wrote the thing. I loved delivering the dynamics as the music gets unobtrusively quieter from 0’51” to its quietest point at around 1’01”, then reverses direction and gets back up to where it started from by the beginning of the tenor solo at 1’31”. The best dynamics are built into the composition such that you scarcely have to mark it. It’s obvious: it goes down to a whisper here.
I’m also at my happiest here because the band at this point now has it down. I don’t have to think about the form or what comes next or whether my colleagues will remember - they know. We are interdependent and all we have to do is interact. Towards the end of Patrick’s tour-de-force solo, we’re all pretty much on the edge of our physical capabilities, with the possible exception of Steve, our supremely relaxed pianist. As I've said before, I don't know how bass players do it.
This was recorded some 25 years ago. This style of jazz, born of the acoustic Coltrane groups of the mid-60s, predates the arrival of hip-hop, electronica, and genre-bending combinations that inform contemporary sub-genres of 21st century jazz (all of which I love, incidentally). Its ‘business model’ (if you like) may be a bit dated, but back then it was a place to go if you wanted to generate music that could rival the heat and power of the best of the amplified rockers.
A jazz group wailing at 300 b.p.m. is still a mysterious organism, and one that I’ve always wanted to be in the middle of since I was a kid. So generating a few original pieces that people like Steve, Mark and Patrick could bring to life nightly was always going to be high on my Earthworks ‘to do’ list. Younger people who’d seldom - if ever - heard acoustic music close up and dangerous often reported to me about how visceral and muscular they found Earthworks, in full flight at some concert or club gig. Maybe we even made some jazz - or instrumental music- converts; you never know.
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The transition from quirky, electronic late 80s/early 90s Earthworks to this acoustic band was a real shock. I remember putting on A Part and Yet Apart for the first time in 1999 and it was like, “What?!” But this band’s work and the acoustic solo album that preceded it have been mainstays in my listening since they were released.
Oh my, thank you Mr. Bill Bruford!
What a Fabulous way for me to relax on this Friday, afternoon.
Blessed to be Listening to you and your tight band on this November 17th 2023!
Thanks again!
❤ ja💤🎶💃🏻🇨🇦
Love your notes in the description Bill. Many thanks for taking the time to share your memories.
Wonderful tune, thanks a lot for uploading and all your crucial contribution to the history of music!
looking forward to this! thanks, bill.
Beautiful
That Patrick guy has got some great lungs!
bill's set up then was genius
Not a big jazz fan but love how this tickles my body.😅
Good stuff.
Merci Bill, à ce niveau musical tout paraît si facile si simple. Là, on chatouille les sommets, les nuages, la perfection. 👍👏 marvelous ! Top 😉
Truly great playing Bill, but none of this changes the fact that Im still mad at you for retiring.
Yes I agree!
Fabulous playing, but still am mad about Bill retiring too!
Why would he quit now?
I think Bill retired right when he should have... when, as he said, he had nothing left to say to us through drumming. He left us wanting more, the way any artist should.
@@ThomasLuongo
Okay I hear you!
As a dancer and performer I do get what you're saying.
I wanted to leave on top and people still wanting more.
Than If i fell or wasn't able to keep up anymore or glide and fly across the floor!
I just guess I was being selfish in wanting to groove to his beats longer.
But really we have all of these stellar tracks recorded, that can be enjoyed by everyone forever now!
❤ ja💤🎶💃🏻♾
What an amazing discography! Just seeking out his guest appearances over the decades will lead one to so many different types of music.@@ThomasLuongo
@@katherinehunter9526 Neil Peart went out this way as well, for different reasons. He knew after R40 that his body and mind couldn't do it anymore. Then it turned out he was very sick. Neil instinctively knew it was time.
Bill knew it was time. His autobiography was heart-breaking because it was a 400 page apologia to his fans to explain why he no longer had anything to say. And, honestly, it is somewhat selfish of us to wish they would do the 'monkey dance' for us to keep us comforted at the expense of their needs as people.
Everything Bill did was a lesson to me... from his leaving Yes to his retirement. His journey is one that I feel privileged to have witnessed and I wish him nothing but joy and contentment in his retirement... as I would wish all artists who have given so much of themselves to the world.