Bill Bruford's Earthworks - The Wooden Man Sings And The Stone Woman Dances (Live In Santiago 2002)
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
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This is very much a Bruford title: a ‘wooden man singing and a stone woman dancing’ sounds like the blueprint for a classical Japanese puppet show. Here we have Mark Hodgson on bass, Steve Hamilton on piano, and Tim Garland on soprano saxophone.
But this video and description is perhaps one for drummers. It appears to be an ad hoc rearrangement of the piece with a whole slower reflective section omitted. Two reasons I can think of for that: 1) we were running out of time and we had to cut a few minutes; or 2) there was some kind of editing error. But hey, if you’re on a stage, stuff happens.
The piece usually has prog-jazz characteristics, with several sections, counter-melodies, meters, moods, and interaction.. Any comparison between the studio version, when we were just learning it, and this live version a couple of years later, will quickly show the effect of road-work on the finished product. Here, with a noisy audience and a sweaty band that knows the song inside out, we were able to play fast and loose. The drum solo is unusually long, for me, at about five minutes. But there’s a lot of content in its performance, so, for those with ears to hear and eyes to see, I think it’s worth showing.
The solo was absolutely a function of the kit layout; something different would have emerged from a traditional setup. Two toms and two cymbals on my right side are balanced by the same on my left side, the two separated by a central cable hi-hat. It allows a call and response thing: what you play on the higher pitched left side, for example, can be mirrored, echoed, or inverted on the deeper left side. Of course, I’d have given my right arm to be ambidextrous, as the old drummer joke goes, because this was the perfect kit to be ambidextrous on. As others have noted, there is no reason why a drummer should have a stronger (or weaker) side at all. It’s just a matter of spending equal amounts of practice time leading with the weaker hand more often than the stronger.
I was propelled into the solo from the manic stone-woman dance, which was mostly in 9/4. The other guys dropped out and I seemed to have been left flying solo. But it felt good, unstoppable, until I ran out of breath (not literally) and moved to some quieter, rubato style out-of-tempo phrases a couple of minutes in.
We’ve already uploaded several tracks from this show in Santiago, Chile, because the audience was very strong, driving we musicians on to better things. There was a sense in which we could do no wrong. Far from encouraging us into some sort of torpor, it egged us on to do better, be sharper. We cared very much that we should deliver a show worthy of all this enthusiasm. So if you’re in an audience and you’re thinking the band is just not ‘getting’ you - your applause, enthusiasm, boredom, whatever - then, I assure you, you’re wrong. They’re getting it, even if they seem to be ignoring it.
There are two other versions of this song by different musicians on this channel. Both feature the full arrangement, if you connoisseurs need to know what we should have been playing that night in Santiago!
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Happy birthday, Mr Bruford. Have a great day/ 75 years and never missed a beat!!!!!!!!!!!! tHANK YOU
Happy birthday, Dr. Bill Bruford! Thank you for all these years of great music! I am 59 and have been blessed by your music all my life. May God bless you with good health and a long happy life!
I think that Bill likes his jazz stuff the best
This is where his playing is suited the best IMO.
Yeah he be always dropping Earthworks in his interviews...
Happy birthday Mr Bruford. Thanks for all the music you gave us.
Bill's drumming has always been on a totally different level.
Happy Birthday, Mr Bruford!
Happy birthday Mr. Bruford. Have a great day... Greetings from Chile. Thanks for all the music to bring it us!!!!!
Bill Bruford strikes again!
Another great performance Mr Bruford 🎼🥁🎼
I was starting to think…”here’s just another post of the same song”, but then the solo kicked in.👍. Happy I watched it and read the insightful description
I usually don't like it when a drum solo ends with a pause, but this particular pause really kicked it. It seems to emphasize the vigor that both the ensemble parts and the drum solo have.
Each instrument singing and dancing in a syncopating marvel of music and rhythms. One of my favourites. Many Happy returns and long may the music speak to us.
Thanks for all the great music over the years. My personal favorite was Yes. Glad to see you're still going strong.
Bill was great in _Yes_ but don't forget their "other drummer" - Allan White r. i. p.
@@williestyle35 Great era in music. Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Renaissance, just to name a few of my favorites.
@@LeDoctoer the 1970's - 1980's was such a time of change and growth in music. So many all time great bands and artists, experimenting, trying everything, every year something new and different. Genesis is one of my favorites from this time, started with Bee Gees sounds on their first couple of songs, became the epitome of "prog rock", went totally mainstream pop, ended with a few experimental "prog - pop" long tracks on their last two albums, now "retired".
♥️ Many Happy Returns Mr Bruford! Best Wishes! Love from Manchester UK ♥️
Happy birthday, Dr. Bruford! One of my biggest influences ever! I love your work.
Happy birthday, Bill!
I love how Bill engages in different conversation when he plays. If I wanted to hear what's on the album, I can do that at home!
Best drummer of his generation, and Bill's "rivals" were amazing...
This drum setup makes so much sense to me. I need to try something like this.
Absolute Big Band. Grandefull music with Bruford stellar.
Oh I love a fusions great works gentlemen. Add little swing and jazz in the spices seasoning I love it. 🙏🥁😏👍
Dynamic, unique, unpredictable,syncopating, instruments mind sharing, discussing, percussing, conversing, diverging, improvising, merging, diversifying. Keep doing your loving spontaneouties❤!
Happy birthday Bill!!! And thank you very much for all the great music❤
Happy Birthday, Bill, hope you are enjoying your favorite things! Thanks for all the musical joy~
Amazing. I wonder if you ever surprise yourself or are amazed when you look back at these performances?
Greetings from Minnesota USA everyone. Cheers.
What can you say
SWEET kick'n solo
Now the rest of the tight as hell band
Nice riff'n!!
Peace ☮️ n serenity
It's full of dynamism and I'm drawn to the generous differences in each sound 😎🤓
Bruf-ford..! That says it all ..
Love this. Saw Earthworks twice and Bill multiple times including on his Gradually Going Tornado tour. Great guy and one of all time favorite drummers. Happy Birthday
Grande Bill Bruford....
Happy birthday 🎂 🎁🎉🎈Bill-- thanks for sharing another excellent performance from the Earthworks band.
Happy Birthday greatest drummer ever ❤
If only Phil Collins had not been quite so ubiquitously successful in the main part of his career, he could have possibly developed his drum mimicking skills to match up with Bill. Sadly Phil is getting up there and has his health problems and the neurological degeneration from his constant playing and touring for over three decades has given Bill Bruford the win. They toured together on the Genesis - _A Trick Of The Tail tour_ ,with Bruford on Drums so Phil could take over the lead singer role (look for videos, the _Seconds Out_ live album butchers Bill down to almost nothing. The official Genesis _Seconds Out_ tour video features Bill opening and closing, good stuff)
life-altering, wonderful capture of an incredible moment.
Happy birthday Maestro!!
Wishing a happy birthday to my #1 drummer from Chile!
Thank you Mr. Bruford! Also love that the song title comes from a line in the old Chinese Buddhist poem "Precious Mirror Samâdhi"
Great feeling
Excelente aporte.
Feliz cumpleaños Bill.
Saludos desde ciudad de Canelones, Uruguay.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL BRUFORD.
WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH.
FROM PARIS WITH LOVE 🔥
Happy Birthday, Bill 🎉
Virtuosismo, excellent
Polyrhythmic genius Happy Birthday 🎈 to a true pioneer One of my all time favorites
This is why we love Bill
Happy birthday Mr. Bruford! 🎉
Unbelievable TALENT!
Happy birthday to the genius Dr B. Tomorrow Grumpy Old Rick and Sunday Pete Townshend.
Happy Birthday!!! 🎉
Great video.
I hadn’t heard this before. Flipping heck - I wish I knew where the 1 was!
Wow, Bill - this was fascinating. High art at the drumkit. Had I continued playing I might have pursued a "flat" drumkit like what you were doing then and watching this, it almost makes me wish I had!
Wish i were there, with a couple of numbers. Just like yesterday.
Feliz aniversário 🎂!!!
Happy Bithday!!! 🎉🎉😂😂😊😊❤❤
Bill !!!
True master!
Perfection
What a guy
love your work!!
Auguri maestro 🎉
I saw this tour at the bottom line in nyc. Jazz
🙌👏👏👏👏👍💯
Gracias Bill por este adelanto.
I Don't like this kind of jazz, but Bill never disappoints!
The title is taken from zen liturgy, “Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi.”
😊
Quiero tocar así
Solo reminds me of Orgy In Rhythm by Art Blakey
Its architectural equivalent is Tadao Ando.
フラットにセットした、タムが、Mr.ビルのジャズ・ドラマーとしての、真骨頂ですね❗
Amazing....
LOVE the central hi-hat. Is the story behind it well-known? 🇬🇧
Bill saw a Symphonic orchestra and noticed how the timpani player could play rhythms with their left hand easier so he assembled the toms that way,Tama already had the cable hi hat stand so he got one and it made sense to put it in the middle where it wasn’t in the way of anything
@@angelgarcie that’s great, thanks Angel 🫡
Send message to Bill bruford bboom happy birthday from Great Scott I'll show you how to drum just kidding
Musicians ask where modern drumming came from.
Define ‘modern.’
All wrists
Happy birthday, Bill!
What a guy
Happy birthday, Bill!