For Yous Nib Bruford - 1977 Feels Proficient To Me

Feels Good to Me is the debut solo album yesteryear the British drummer Bill Bruford. The band Bruford grew out of the line-up assembled for this album. Led yesteryear drummer Bill Bruford, the album besides features guitarist Allan Holdsworth together with John Goodsall, bassist Jeff Berlin, keyboardist Dave Stewart, together with ECM flügelhorn stalwart Kenny Wheeler. He besides enlisted vocalist together with songwriter Annette Peacock. Musically, the album does non audio similar the early on Canterbury audio only is to a greater extent than reminiscent of contemporaries Brand X, amongst whom they shared guitarist John Goodsall. The album, released inwards August 1978, is besides considered a "vanguard of progressive jazz improvised music"

With a career that was starting fourth dimension defined yesteryear his metrically-challenging operate together with straightaway recognizable drum audio amongst progressive stone groups Yes together with King Crimson, zero could bring prepared anyone for the surprise of drummer Bill Bruford's starting fourth dimension solo release, Feels Good to Me. While Bruford's signature style—a mathematically-precise approach that never failed to honor the innate groove inwards fifty-fifty the close complex of fourth dimension signatures—was inwards clear evidence, the album didn't sound similar a drummer's solo album. The emphasis was on composition, together with spell others inwards the grouping — including Hatfield together with the North together with National Health keyboardist Dave Stewart, on-the- ascendancy guitarist Allan Holdsworth together with the then-unknown electrical bassist Jeff Berlin. Bruford made it clear from the get-go that his business office equally bandleader was to live on that of an equal contributor rather than a dominant voice. And spell these late-'70s releases—Feels Good to Me, One of a Kind, Gradually Going Tornado together with The Bruford Tapes — clearly emerged from a progressive stone sensibility, they besides demonstrated a harmonic depth that echoed Bruford's longstanding involvement inwards jazz albeit, inwards the illustration of these recordings, to a greater extent than of the fusion kind.

 Track listing

• All Songs Published By E.G. Music Ltd., except where noted.

1. "Beelzebub" (Bruford) 3:22
2. "Back to the Beginning" (Bruford) 7:25
3. "Seems Like a Lifetime Ago (Part One)" (Bruford) 2:31
4. "Seems Like a Lifetime Ago (Part Two)" (Bruford) 4:29
5. "Sample together with Hold" (Bruford, Stewart) 5:12 (E.G. Music, Ltd. & Virgin Music)
6. "Feels Good to Me" (Bruford) 3:53
7. "Either End of August" (Bruford) 5:24
8. "If You Can't Stand the Heat..." (Bruford, Stewart) 3:26 (E.G. Music, Ltd. & Virgin Music)
9. "Springtime inwards Siberia" (Bruford, Stewart) 2:44 (E.G. Music, Ltd. & Virgin Music)
10. "Adios a la Pasada (Goodbye To The Past)" (Bruford, Annette Peacock) 8:41

 Personnel

• Bill Bruford – percussion, drums
• Allan Holdsworth – electric guitar
• Dave Stewart – keyboards, synthesizers
• Jeff Berlin – bass

with

• Kenny Wheeler: Flugelhorn
• Annette Peacock: Vocals (2, 3, 10)
• John Goodsall: Additional guitar (6)
• Neil Murray: Additional bass