British - Musician | May 17, 1949 -
My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
Bill Bruford
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If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.
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If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.
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I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
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I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.
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I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.
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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
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I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
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I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
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I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
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