Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Bajo Del Sol (Teatro Opera, Buenos Aires, 28th Sept 2002)
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For some reason, the South American countries were always well disposed towards the sort of things I liked: Yes, King Crimson and later on, Earthworks. Here we are with a Tim Garland composition Bajo del Sol, featuring bass clarinet, at an Earthworks concert in Buenos Aires. As the band progressed, the administrative and social media stuff became overwhelming. Tim is a gifted composer and instrumentalist who took on much of the Earthworks writing as I slowly ran out of steam.
An alumnus of Chick Corea’s band Origin, Tim's piece channels the Hispanic flavour of some of Chick’s composing. Tim can hold his own in stellar company on tenor or soprano saxophones, flute or bass clarinet, all of which he featured in the later editions of Earthworks. One of the great advantages of being a leader is that you can invite into the band those who seem to know more about the mysteries of music-making than you do; people like Tim, Gwilym Simcock, Allan Holdsworth, Django Bates. Then you let them loose. Then you listen and learn.
Bands tend to have a greater chance of staying together if the participants’ needs are in balance with the leader’s needs. In Earthworks we had an experienced leader who was learning from musicians half his age while benefitting from their youthful energy and (frequently) superior music skills. In return, those less experienced players were getting an international platform on which to display their abilities, reasonable pay, and a decent single hotel room with clean sheets. Everyone’s cool!
I wrote a chapter on this topic in "The Cambridge Companion to the Drumkit' (Cambridge University Press 2021) if you want to dig deeper.
Bass clarinet / sax: Tim Garland
Piano: Steve Hamilton
Bass: Mark Hodgson
Drums: Bill Bruford
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Lo fantástico de BB es que cuando toca rock sabemos que es un batería de jazz y cuando toca jazz sabemos que es un batería de rock , es el jazzista del rock y el rockero del jazz .
Auténtico maestro
Eye-opening performance by prog veteran Bill Buford on a jazzier side of his career.
Lovely composition by Tim Garland Bill -- and your solo at the end is wonderful.
When you toured the states in '78, on your One of a Kind album, my brother and I stood in front of you to see this same sort of brilliant performance.
Then in '81 at the same venue (Agora Ballroom in Atlanta, Ga) we got to see you again, on the Discipline tour with Robert, Tony and Adrian.
Thanks for these great memories and more from your illustrious career, Sir Bill.
Exquisite!
Beautiful, flawless, and exquisite performance. Bruford makes it look easy because to him it’s so effortless. A true musician’s musician.
Something about Bruford captivated me from the first time I hear Roundabout in 1972. That snare sound, that different feel, that inclination to play outside the box without over-playing. I hate that he retired, but I love that her retired on top. My drum hero.
Bruford has such tremendous control. Effortless performance by a master drummer.
I prefer the term "kickass drumma and an actual composer"
Fue increible....estuve alli ...primera fila lado derecho frente a Bill.
OLE !!! spring night in buenos aires good inspiration!!!
Fantastic performances from all and wonderful drum solo at the end. Thanks for sharing these Bill. I've been following your career since the mid 80s.
What a brilliantly inspiring band of musicians… always loved BB’s economic style of creating such complex rhythms, and his choice of musicians are always top notch and interesting .. and oh that bass clart..
Bravo! Lovely footage indeed and I love the description obviously written by BB. What a brillliant musical mind our beloved Bill has. I met him once at Yoshi's Oakland California - one of my high points of my life, meeting my musical hero. Yes we let out musical heroes loose and listen!!
Dr. Bruford, thanks!!! Another fabulous performance and band!!!!
I fell in love with Bill from the 1st YES lp . Such a wonderful drummer..this was fantastic just brillant..and it looks so easy!!!
I love it 👌🥁👌🎼
Belleza...Saludos de Bolivia!!!
"One of the great advantages of being a leader is that you can invite into the band those who seem to know more about the mysteries of music-making than you do; people like Tim, Gwilym Simcock, Allan Holdsworth, Django Bates. Then you let them loose. Then you listen and learn. Bands tend to have a greater chance of staying together if the participants’ needs are in balance with the leader’s needs."
I find your words inspiring Bill, also awesome content on your channel as always. The ending of the song was so cool!!! Cheers from Tijuana/San Diego.
yeah, that is beautiful.
This music really inspires me. Thank you for posting.
It's practically flamenco jazz to my ears.
Great stuff.
love that bass, I'm amazed at how much you use your snare. Have a wonderful day!
Amazing, beautiful, extraordinary
Love it! I resonate with you so much Bill. P.S. Thank you for placing the hi hat on the kit where it belongs. The most logical thing to do!
What a cool sounding ride cymbal!
The main ride? It's a Paiste Signature Dark Energy ride, I believe.... I'm a drummer and had a period of searching for the "perfect" ride cymbal, and ended up with the same ride. Only later found out that BB used the same, which is cool.
@@aakkoinsize?
@@jacoposchio3909 20"... It's Signature Dark Energy Mark I, i think... Mine is Mark II.
Yo fui con 17 años a ver este recital.
Always nice to see Bruford playing real drums.
Great! Thanks. I like it!
Inspired!
Wonderful 😊
Bravo!!!!!!
The bass clarinet is the beast to conquer .. there is nothing like that,
if you are serious at all at whatever instrumet you play
💜🤘🏿Magic🤘🏿💜
SOIS UNOS MAESTROS
Love this, wow.
Well.... That was F'ing Awesome.....
Great video.
i like it. Nice combo
Hermosa música. Gracias por compartir. La pregunta es: el material fue grabado por un equipo argentino?
Debe haber sido producido mismo por el canal (á) que siempre se dedicaron a cosas de arte y cultura bastante prolijas
@@MrPijertor gracias.
QUE AMPLIFICACION DE PERCUSION DEMASIADO
Holy fuck!
Yeaaaah!
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this lo-profile kit is really cool...love the Earthworks material.
Why you guys never played in Rio is a mystery to me....
Bruford is the shiz!
This stuff is the actual definition of underrated, musically speaking.
questionable bc the people who have covered bill and others work are very fond of it it's just not popular becuase it's a very specific niche
@@PurpleBled it's not popular and it's nothing if not a specific niche.. but interesting take. People do follow Bill from Yes primarily, so some people who don't play kit or like Jazz are going to run into this, but from observing Yes fans from a distance, quite a lot of them are still trying to figure out why the band did what it did 50 years ago and didn't really leave that space.
Amazing music! And especially drumming! What ride cymbal did Bill use in this tune?
20" Paiste Signature Dark Energy Mk 1, I believe.
Yo estuve ahì y viendo esto pienso lo que opinè en su momento: respeto sobremanera a BB tècnicamente, en su etapa prog (Yes a Crimson) y haciendo Jazz rock con Holdsworth. Pero jazz, buen jazz (melòdico, creativo) no es para cualquiera.
Y CHIK KOREA?.CON EL PIANO YAMAYA?
I've never mentioned this,, but Bill has always reminded me of Michael Myers, 😐 but handsomer of course😀
I can tell you one reason, Bill.
Many keep the rich culture of the Spanish heritage, though some do not acknowledge this.
Me, as a Spaniard, I'm really amazed at how well they master the language, with a flowerish vocab (gone in Spain 😔)
They speak like reading a book, sometimes, specially y Argentina or Uruguay, all of them really.
Their problem is politics, totalitarian communist, indigenist etc. It's really worrying to see how countries are falling into this. Chile and Colombia were the last ones to have this regimes that will make them more poor 🤔
The problem with "spaniards" like you is that you cannot understand other cultures, and it seems you prefer to live in the middle ages having a "king". Please do not give us your cheap politics comments here.
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You're so close...
I guess these are the rudiments of this world but it is under the sun