Bill Bruford had assembled a ring for his debut solo album, Feels Good to Me, amongst Dave Stewart (keyboards), Jeff Berlin (bass), Allan Holdsworth (guitar) together with Bruford (drums). That album likewise had Annette Peacock on vocals, together with Kenny Wheeler on flugelhorn. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 instant album was thus released nether the ring advert Bruford together with was generally instrumental, together with on the alive album The Bruford Tapes (a alive demo originally broadcast for radio station WLIR) together with associated tour, guitarist The 'Unknown' John Clark replaced Holdsworth. Bass thespian Berlin sang the vocals on Gradually Going Tornado.
One of a Kind is an album past times the British ring Bruford. It was released inwards 1979 together with is a collection of progressive melodies amongst much jazz exploration, inwards mode that tin endure defined inside the limits of jazz fusion. It is likewise considered a classic inwards instrumental rock. The grouping led past times drummer Bill Bruford features guitarist Allan Holdsworth, bassist Jeff Berlin together with keyboardist Dave Stewart. Some of the cloth ("Forever Until Sunday", which features an (originally) uncredited Eddie Jobson on violin, together with "The Sahara Of Snow") was originally performed alive past times U.K. on its 1978 tour, exactly taken for role on this album when Holdsworth together with Bruford exited that band. Stewart's "Hell's Bells" used a fragment penned past times his onetime National Health colleague Alan Gowen (the 3-chord blueprint underlying the guitar solo).
Bill Bruford ended his brief matter amongst U.K. together with condensed his master copy outfit to a quartet, releasing a instant album of sinewy, celebratory jazz/rock fusion, One of a Kind. Good-humored twists together with turns abound inwards the music, punctuated past times Bruford's steadying if slightly subversive rhythms, Allan Holdsworth's flashes of fire, Jeff Berlin's insistent bass, together with Dave Stewart's remarkably colorful keyboards. At the pump of many of these songs is an uplifting melody, a trait shared amongst fusion artists similar Weather Report together with Jean-Luc Ponty, though Bruford's outfit favors a faster measurement than the onetime together with pursues to a greater extent than musical avenues inwards a unmarried vocal than the latter. When he takes to tuned percussion, Bruford tin fifty-fifty audio similar Frank Zappa (both bands stimulate got a funky side to them). Standout cuts this fourth dimension include "Hell's Bells," "Fainting inwards Coils" (which, inwards an indirect link to his previous employers, would stimulate got felt at domicile on Robert Fripp's Exposure), "Five G," together with "The Sahara of Snow." The remaining tracks are a trivial less muscular, together with the band's pull would seem to prevarication inwards fusion propelled past times the complex rhythmic patterns of Bruford together with Berlin (i.e., when the ring leans closer to the stone side of the fusion family). Those who bask their fusion amongst a salubrious dose of stone volition abide by One of a Kind a fair gibe for anything from Return to Forever or Brand X. Note that many of these songs likewise seem inwards alive versions on the beat-the-boots free The Bruford Tapes.
Bill Bruford ended his brief matter amongst U.K. together with condensed his master copy outfit to a quartet, releasing a instant album of sinewy, celebratory jazz/rock fusion, One of a Kind. Good-humored twists together with turns abound inwards the music, punctuated past times Bruford’s steadying if slightly subversive rhythms, Allan Holdsworth’s flashes of fire, Jeff Berlin’s insistent bass, together with Dave Stewart’s remarkably colorful keyboards. At the pump of many of these songs is an uplifting melody, a trait shared amongst fusion artists similar Weather Report together with Jean-Luc Ponty, though Bruford’s outfit favors a faster measurement than the onetime together with pursues to a greater extent than musical avenues inwards a unmarried vocal than the latter. When he takes to tuned percussion, Bruford tin fifty-fifty audio similar Frank Zappa (both bands stimulate got a funky side to them).
Track listing
"Hell's Bells" (Alan Gowen, Dave Stewart) 3:32
"One of a Kind, Pt. 1" (Bill Bruford) 2:20
"One of a Kind, Pt. 2" (Bruford, Stewart) 4:00
"Travels amongst Myself — And Someone Else" (Bruford) 6:10
"Fainting inwards Coils" (Bruford) 6:33
"Five G" (Jeff Berlin, Bruford, Stewart) 4:41
"The Abingdon Chasp" (Allan Holdsworth) 4:50
"Forever until Sunday" (Bruford) 5:46
"The Sahara of Snow, Pt. 1" (Bruford) 5:18
"The Sahara of Snow, Pt. 2" (Bruford, Eddie Jobson) 3:23
Personnel
Bill Bruford – percussion, drums, speaking the business office of the Mock Turtle on "Fainting In Coils"
Allan Holdsworth – electrical guitar
Dave Stewart – keyboards, synthesizers
Jeff Berlin – bass
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Eddie Jobson – violin on "Forever Until Sunday"
Anthea Norman Taylor (currently Mrs. Brian Eno) - speaking the business office of Alice on "Fainting In Coils"
Sam Alder (of E.G. Records) - phonation of the narrator on "Fainting In Coils"
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