Bill Bruford

William Scott Bruford (born 17 May 1949) is an English retired

Bill Bruford
drummer, percussionist, songwriter, producer, and record label owner
who first gained prominence as the original drummer of the rock band
Yes, from 1968 to 1972 and again from 1989 to 1992.[1] After his
departure from Yes, Bruford spent the rest of the 1970s playing in King
Crimson, touring with Genesis and U.K., and eventually forming his
own group, Bruford.

In the 1980s, Bruford returned to King Crimson for three years,

collaborated with several artists including The Roches, Patrick Moraz,
and David Torn, and formed his jazz bandEarthworks in 1986. He then
played in Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, which eventually led to
Bruford performing in 2008
his second stint in Yes. Bruford played in King Crimson for his third
and final tenure between 1994 and 1997, after which he continued with Background information
Earthworks and further collaborations. Birth name William Scott Bruford

On 1 January 2009, Bruford retired from public performance. He

Born 17 May 1949
released his autobiography, and continues to speak and write about
Sevenoaks, Kent, England
music. He operates his record labels, Summerfold and Winterfold Genres Progressive rock ·
Records. In 2016, after four-and-a-half years of study, Bruford earned a instrumental rock · jazz · jazz
PhD in Music at the University of Surrey. He was inducted into the fusion
Rock and Roll Hall of Fameas a member of Yes in 2017.[2] Occupation(s) Drummer · percussionist ·
songwriter · producer ·
record label owner
Contents Instruments Drums · percussion

Early life and education Years active 1967–2009

Career Labels Polydor · E.G. · Voiceprint ·

1968–1975: Yes and King Crimson Winterfold · Summerfold
1974–1980: Genesis, Bruford, and U.K.
Associated acts Yes · King Crimson · Gong ·
1981–1993: King Crimson, Earthworks, ABWH, and
Yes National Health · Genesis ·
1994–2009: King Crimson, Earthworks II, and U.K. · Bruford · Earthworks ·
retirement Kazumi Watanabe ·
Membership Timeline Anderson Bruford Wakeman
Legacy Howe · Bruford Levin Upper
Abortive projects Extremities
Awards Website www.billbruford.com
Other Works
Discography
Notes
External links

Early life and education

Bruford was born on 17 May 1949 in Sevenoaks, Kent, the third child of Betty and John Bruford, a local veterinary surgeon.[3] He
has a brother, John, and a sister, Jane.[4] He attended boarding school atTonbridge School.[5][6] Bruford decided to take up drumming
at thirteen after watching American jazz drummers on theBBC2 jazz television series,Jazz 625,[7] and practised the instrument in the
attic of his house.[5] He cites Max Roach, Joe Morello, Art Blakey, and Ginger Baker as his favourite and the most influential
drummers as a youngster.[8] Around this time, Bruford's sister bought him a pair of drum brushes as a birthday present,[7] and
Bruford would practise using them on album sleeves after he was told the sound resembled a snare drum while watching Jazz 625.
Bruford recalled it as "a perfect education".[6] Though he was given a single snare drum at first, Bruford gradually built a full drum
kit.[6] He later took a few lessons from Lou Pocock, a member of theRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra.[7]

During his time at boarding school, Bruford befriended several fellow jazz fans, one of them a drummer who gave Bruford lessons in
improvisation and a tutorial book by American jazz drummer Jim Chapin. They then performed as a four-piece[6] named The Breed,
a rhythm and blues and soul band that Bruford played with from 1966 to 1967 until he was unable to attend all their gigs, leaving the
band to hire a second drummer. The Breed were formed by Stu Murray on guitar, Ray Bennett on bass, Mike Freeman on sax, Doug
Kennard on guitar and vocals and Bill Bruford on drums. After he left boarding school, Bruford took a gap year before he intended to
start an economics course atLeeds University in September 1968.[6][9] He auditioned for a place inSavoy Brown on 16 January 1968
at a pub in Battersea. After he was unsuccessful in being able to join the band, Bruford "hung around until the end and told them they
had the wrong guy ... I talked my way into it".[9] His tenure lasted three gigs as he messed with the beat,[10] and joined Paper Blitz
Tissue, a psychedelic rock band, for a short time. Bruford then spotted an advertisement in a music shop from The Noise, who were
looking for a drummer to play with them for a six-week residency at the Piper Club in Rome, Italy.[11] He remembered the
experience as "ghastly", felt his bandmates could not play properly, and had to hitchhike back to London with his kit.[6][11] Ray
Bennett the bass player with The Breed, would later play with Flash, a band formed by Peter Banks after he leftes.
Y

Career

1968–1975: Yes and King Crimson

Following his return to London, the nineteen-year-old Bruford settled into a flat in north London and placed an advertisement for
drum work in the Melody Maker.[12] It was spotted by singer Jon Anderson[10] of Mabel Greer's Toyshop, a London-based
psychedelic rock band that also consisted of bassist Chris Squire and guitarist Clive Bayley, who sought a replacement for their
departing drummer, Bob Hagger. The four first met on 7 June 1968; Anderson was so impressed with Bruford, he invited Bruford to
play with the band that evening at the Rachel McMillan College in Deptford.[10] Their entire set consisted of "In the Midnight Hour"
by Wilson Pickett as it was the only song they all knew how to play through, but Bruford was impressed with the band's ability to
sing in harmony.[12] Following the gig, Bruford had several offers to join soul bands, one of which earned as much as £30 a week,
but chose to form a new, full-time group with Anderson and Squire. The four entered rehearsals, which ended in Peter Banks
replacing Bayley on guitar, and they changed their name toYes with new recruit, keyboardistTony Kaye.[10][12]

Bruford played on Yes's first five studio albums during his initial tenure: Yes (1969), Time and a Word (1970), The Yes Album (1971),
Fragile (1971), and Close to the Edge (1972). His first attempt at composition was "Five Per Cent for Nothing", recorded for Fragile.
His main interest was allowing the drums to "be heard" as Squire tuned his bass high, and so developed a style that involved unusual
"beat placement" and time signatures.[13] He developed his musical understanding during this time: "I learned how to read the
horizontal lines, but not the vertical notes."[14]

Bruford recalled Yes being hot blooded and argumentative, with personality conflicts being the eventual reason for his exit. These,
for him, included problems in understanding other members' accents, differences in social backgrounds, and many other issues that
[14]
set the band in a constant state of friction between Anderson, Squire, and himself.

In July 1972, after Close to the Edge had been recorded, Bruford quit to join King Crimson. Rehearsals began in September 1972,
followed by an extensive UK tour. His instinct to remember complicated drum parts was shown when he learned how to play the long
percussion and guitar part in the middle of "21st Century Schizoid Man", "by listening to it and just learning it." Bruford cites the six
months that percussionist Jamie Muir was in the group as highly influential on him as a player.[15] He is featured on Larks' Tongues
in Aspic (1973), Starless and Bible Black (1974) and Red (1974) before Robert Fripp disbanded King Crimson in September
1974.[16] He is featured on their live album,USA (1975).

1974–1980: Genesis, Bruford, and U.K.

After leaving King Crimson, Bruford felt his "sense of direction was rather stymied" and was unsure on his next step. In late 1974, he
became a temporary member of the French-Anglo band Gong for a European tour after drummer Laurie Allan was busted for drugs
at a border. Bruford then chose to wait for an appealing offer while earning money as a session musician.[15] The sessions were few,
[17] In 1975, Bruford played drums onFish Out of Water
however, and the ones that he was a part of he called "unmitigated disasters".
by Chris Squire,[18] HQ by Roy Harper,[15] and At the Sound of a Bell by Pavlov's Dog.[19] He joined National Health for several
live performances, but declined an offer to join full-time as there were already many writers in the group, and felt his contributions to
[15]
the music, the majority of which was already written, would have caused problems.

By 1976, Bruford had rehearsed with Ray Gomez and Jeff Berlin in the US but plans to form a group failed, partly due to the
members living far away from each other.[17] He wished not to force a band together, so he decided to "watch, wait, observe and
absorb".[19] From March to July 1976, Bruford toured with Genesis as their live drummer on their 1976 tour of North America and
Europe, supporting A Trick of the Tail.[15] It was their first album and tour after original frontman Peter Gabriel had left, leaving
drummer Phil Collins to sing lead vocals. Bruford had known Collins for several years and performed with Collins' side project
Brand X, during which he suggested sitting in the drum seat while Collins sang on stage until they found a permanent
replacement.[17] Bruford's is included on the concert film recorded during the tour, Genesis: In Concert, and the live albums Seconds
Out and Three Sides Live.

In 1977, Bruford formed his own band named Bruford. Members of the band were initially Dave Stewart (keyboards), Jeff Berlin
(bass), Allan Holdsworth (guitar) and Bruford (drums). The first album Feels Good to Me (1978, recorded as a solo project) also had
Annette Peacock on vocals, Kenny Wheeler on flugelhorn and John Goodsall on rhythm guitar. After recording Feels Good to Me,
Bruford reunited with John Wetton and formed the progressive rock group U.K.. After their debut album U.K. (1978) and several
tours, Holdsworth and Bruford left the group due to disagreements.

Bruford resumed activity in his own group to release One of a Kind (1979). Almost entirely instrumental, the album contains some
spoken lines by Bruford during the introduction to "Fainting in Coils". Subsequent gigs spawned the live releases Rock Goes to
College and The Bruford Tapes (1979). Their final album,Gradually Going Tornado (1980), features backing vocals from Canterbury
scene stalwarts Barbara Gaskin and Amanda Parsons, as well as Georgina Born on cello. Unfinished songs for a projected fourth
album were recorded in 1980, but remained unreleased until 2017.

1981–1993: King Crimson, Earthworks, ABWH, and Y

es
In 1981, Bruford returned to King Crimson in a new formation with Fripp, Tony Levin, and Adrian Belew. The four recorded
Discipline (1981), Beat (1982), and Three of a Perfect Pair (1984), all featuring Bruford on acoustic and electronic drums, allowing
him to play programmed tuned pitches and sound effects which expanded his capabilities as a result.[20] In 1984, Fripp disbanded the
group.[20]

In 1983, Bruford formed a duo with Swiss keyboardist and former Yes member Patrick Moraz after he learned that Moraz was living
close to him in Surrey. The project had Bruford develop a "real taste for improvising".[13] Under the name Moraz/Bruford, the two
released Music for Piano and Drums (1983) and Flags (1985), two albums recorded on acoustic instruments. The albums were
supported with several live shows, including a tour of Japan.

In 1986, Bruford formed his jazz group Earthworks with Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and Mick Hutton (later replaced by Tim
Harries), with initial assistance from Dave Stewart.[20] By then, drum technology had improved to Bruford's satisfaction and he
resumed using the instrument, specifically the Simmons electronic drum kit.[21][22] The band toured the US club circuit through
1987.[20]
Bruford temporarily put Earthworks on hold in 1988 after Jon Anderson invited him to form Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe with
other former Yes members Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe (although he'd initially been under the impression that he'd be playing on
an Anderson solo album). Bruford was attracted to the idea of recording on Montserrat (as well as the opportunity to better finance
Earthworks via the larger fees he'd command as an in-demand rock musician), and convinced Anderson to hire Tony Levin on bass
for the project. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe was released in 1989 and the group toured the album worldwide. In 1990, ABWH
and Yes merged to become an eight-member formation of Y
es which saw the release ofUnion (1991), mixing tracks by Yes and those
that ABWH had recorded for a proposed second album. Most of the band were openly critical of the album; Bruford said: "The worst
record I've ever been on".[23] He took part in the subsequent Union Tour, and though he enjoyed the enthusiastic audiences in large
[14]
venues and performing with former band mates, he found the experience "pretty horrible".

In 1990, Bruford was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame.[24] He left Yes in the same year, although he and Steve
Howe would later undertake a recording project together in 1992/1993 to have an orchestra reinterpret some of Yes' works. The
resulting album, titledSymphonic Music of Yes, was released on RCA records in 1993.

In January 1991, Bruford reconvened Earthworks: the group would continue in its current form until 1993, recording one further
studio album and a live album before the departure of Django Bates and the subsequent fissioning of the whole band.

1994–2009: King Crimson, Earthworks II, and retirement

King Crimson re-emerged once more in 1994 as a six-piece band, consisting of its
1980s line-up along with Trey Gunn on Warr Guitars and Pat Mastelotto sharing the
drumming duties with Bruford. Dubbed the "double trio" configuration, between
1994 and 1996 they released the EP Vrooom (1994), the full-length studio album
Thrak (1995), and two live albums, B'Boom: Live in Argentina (1995) and
Thrakattak (1996).

Rehearsals to create new King Crimson material followed, as well as a week of

performance with the sub-group ProjeKcts One in 1997, after which Bruford left the
Bruford at the Moers Festival in
band and its iterations for good. His reason for abandoning King Crimson was his
[23] Germany, 2004
frustration with rehearsals, which he felt weren't going anywhere.

In 1997, Bruford moved focus from rock to acoustic jazz, partly due to the fact that
he could go no further with electronic drums.[13] In 1997 he put together an entirely new line-up of Earthworks, this time with pianist
Steve Hamilton, saxophonist Patrick Clahar, and double bass player Geoff Gascoyne (the latter soon replaced by Mark Hodgson).[13]
Although Earthworks would undergo further lineup changes (with Tim Garland replacing Clahar as saxophonist in 2001, Gwilym
Simcock replacing Hamilton as pianist in 2004, and Laurence Cottle replacing Hodgson on bass circa 2005), the revived band would
maintain a consistent, predominantly acoustic post-bop approach focussing on Bruford's compositions. During 2005, Earthworks
would temporarily combine with Garland's Underground Orchestra project to form the Earthworks Underground Orchestra.
Earthworks finally disbanded in 2008.

While Earthworks remained Bruford's primary focus, he also sought other collaborations in the final twelve years of his career. These
included a collaboration with Americans Eddie Gomez and Ralph Towner in 1997, the jazz-rock band Bruford Levin Upper
Extremities (1998), a duo with Dutch pianist Michiel Borstlap (2002-2007),[13] the contemporary composer Colin Riley with the
Piano Circus collective (2009), and in presenting drum clinics.

In 2003, Bruford established two record labels. Winterfold Records covers his earlier releases including his guitar and rock-oriented
[14][13]
music. The other, Summerfold Records, focuses on his jazz output, mostly from post-1987.

Bruford retired from public performance on 1 January 2009[25] (except for one low-key performance with Ann Bailey's Soul House
in 2011).[26] He retired from studio recording at the same time, although his final studio work, Skin & Wire, was not released until
later that year. His autobiography was released in early 2009.[27] In 2016, after four years of study, Bruford earned a PhD in Music at
the University of Surrey.[28][29]
Membership Timeline

Legacy
Many artists have cited Bruford as an influence, including Danny Carey,[30] Mike Portnoy,[31] Matt Cameron,[32] Brann Dailor,[33]
Tim "Herb" Alexander,[34] Gene Hoglan,[35] Aaron Harris,[36] Chad Cromwell,[37] Ben Koller,[38][39] Chris Pennie,[40] Steve
Arrington,[41] Mac McNeilly,[42] and Martin Dosh.[43] In addition, other artists have been quoted expressing admiration for his work
including Neil Murray,[44] Jimmy Keegan,[45] and Adrian Younge.[46]

The character "Bruford" from the popular manga/anime series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was a direct homage to Bill as series creator
Hirohiko Araki is a huge fan of his in work in Yes. Araki even used Yes's "Roundabout" as the series end credit's theme.[47]

Abortive projects
Bruford has been involved in a number of abortive projects, including a trio with Rick Wakeman and John Wetton which made the
headlines of Melody Maker in October 1976; Bruford has also told of "an abortive and late rehearsal/audition with bass player Jack
Bruce out at his mansion in Essex, once, but nothing came of that." He was also approached in 1985 by ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist
Jimmy Page to be the drummer for his new band with Paul Rodgers, The Firm, along with bass player Pino Palladino. "We rehearsed
[48]
briefly, but I think decided we were mutually unsuited..!"

Awards
In 1990, the readers ofModern Drummer voted him into that magazine's Hall of Fame.[49]

In 2017, he was inducted into theRock and Roll Hall of Fameas a member of Yes.

Other Works
Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer(University of Michigan Press, 2018,ISBN 978-0-472-07378-8)

Discography
Yes Earthworks

Yes (1969) Earthworks (1987)

Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings Dig? (1989)
1969–1970 (1969–1970 live recordings, All Heaven Broke Loose (1991)
released 1997)
Stamping Ground: Bill Bruford's
Time and a Word (1970) Earthworks Live (1994, live recording)
 The Word Is Live (1970–1971 live recordings, Heavenly Bodies (1997, compilation)
released 2005) A Part, and Yet Apart (1999)
The Yes Album (1971) The Sound of Surprise (2001)
Fragile (1971) Footloose and Fancy Free (2002, live
Close to the Edge (1972) recording)
Yessongs (1973, live recording), appears on 2 Random Acts of Happiness (2004, live
tracks. recording)
Union (1991) Earthworks Underground Orchestra
Union Live (1991 live recording, released 2011) (2006)

King Crimson Bruford with Ralph Towner and Eddie

Gomez
Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
If Summer Had Its Ghosts (1997)
The Night Watch (1973 live recording, released
1997)
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
The Great Deceiver (1973–1974 live recordings,
released 1992) Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (1998)
Starless and Bible Black (1974) B.L.U.E. Nights (1998 live recording,
Red (1974) released 2000)
USA (1975, live recording)
Discipline (1981) Duo with Michiel Borstlap
Beat (1982)
In Concert in Holland (2002 live
Three of a Perfect Pair (1984) recording, released 2004)
Absent Lovers (1984 live recording, released Every Step a Dance, Every Word a Song
1998) (2004)
VROOOM (1994) In Two Minds (2007)
THRAK (1995)
B'Boom: Live in Argentina (1995, live recording) Appearances
VROOOM VROOOM (1995–1996 live
Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry
recording, released 2001)
VIII (1973)
THRaKaTTaK (1996, live recording)
Chris Squire – Fish Out of Water (1975)
Live at the Jazz Café (1997 live recording,
Steve Howe – Beginnings (1975)
released 1999 as part of The ProjeKcts sub-
group box set) Roy Harper – HQ (1975)
Various – Peter and the Wolf (1975)
U.K. Pavlov's Dog – At the Sound of the Bell
(1976)
U.K. (1978)
Absolute Elsewhere – In Search of
Concert Classics, Vol. 4 (1978 live recording, Ancient Gods (1976)
released 1999, Re-released as Live in America
Genesis – Three Sides Live (1976 live
or Live in Boston)
recording, released 1982; international
Ultimate Collector's Edition (2016, box set) edition only, until 1994 )
Genesis – Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992
Bill Bruford
(1976 live recording, released 2000)
Feels Good to Me (1978) Genesis – Seconds Out (1977, live
recording)
Bruford Annette Peacock – X-Dreams (1978)
Steve Howe – The Steve Howe Album
One of a Kind (1979) (1979)
Rock Goes to College (1979 live recording, The Roches – Keep on Doing (1982)
released 2006) Al Di Meola – Scenario (1983)
 The Bruford Tapes (1979 live recording) Annette Peacock – Been in the Streets
Gradually Going Tornado (1980) Too Long (1983)
Master Strokes: 1978–1985 (1986, compilation) Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance
Man (1984)
Duo with Patrick Moraz Patrick Moraz – Time Code (1984)
David Torn – Cloud About Mercury (ECM,
Music for Piano and Drums (1983) 1986)
Flags (1985) Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin – Up
In Tokyo (1985 live recording, released 2009) from the Dark (1986)
Akira Inoue – Tokyo Installation (1986)
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Anri – Trouble in Paradise (1986)
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (1989) The New Percussion Group of
Amsterdam, Bill Bruford, and Keiko Abe -
An Evening of Yes Music Plus (1993)
Go Between (1987)
Live at the NEC (2012)
Kazumi Watanabe – The Spice of Life
(1987)
Orchestral project with Steve Howe and Jon
Anderson Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin – As
Far as Dreams Can Go (1988)
Symphonic Music of Yes (1993) Kazumi Watanabe – The Spice of Life
Too (1988)
Nobuhide Saki - Yume O Yobe (1988)
David Torn – Door X (1990)
Steve Howe – Turbulence (1991)
Joe Hisaishi – 地上の楽園 / Chizyou No
Rakuen / Paradise On Earth (1994)
Tony Levin – World Diary (1995)
National Health – Missing Pieces (1996,
rec. 1975-76)
Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited (1996)
Gordian Knot – Emergent (2003)
World Drummers Ensemble – A Coat of
Many Colours (2006)
Piano Circus - Skin and Wire, The Music
of Colin Riley (2009)
Leon Alvarado – Strangers in Strange
Places (2010)

Notes
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2017. "Q: Which drummers have been an inspiration to you?
Danny Carey: In the prog world, Bill Bruford (King Crimson, Y es, Bruford). He was always really free thinking about
electronic drums and things like that and I always appreciated that a lot, especially at one point when all of a sudden
it became so uncool to use electronic drums, but I just thought, 'Ah, man, everyone should do what pleases
themselves'. So yes, he was a big influence in that way
. [...]"
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Cameron says, “Listening to a lot of Bruford prepared me supremely to play in Soundgarden.” Cameron emphasized
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Brann Dailor: [...] for prog, definitely Phil Collins and Bill Bruford. [...]
"
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The Breed : http://billbruford.com/news/archive.php

External links
Official website at BillBruford.com
Bill Bruford Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2011)

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