Blue Note Jazz Festival PresentsProgJect plus Bill Bruford
In Conversation with Anil Prasad
Please note: Bill will not be performing
ProgJect featuring Pete Griffin, Mike Keneally, Alessandro Del Vechhio, Ryo Okumoto and Jonathan Mover
Performing the classics and epics from Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Pink Floyd, Bruford, UK and more.
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 7:00pm
VIP Seating
$75 Advance • $85 Day of Show
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General Admission Seating
$49 Advance • $55 Day of Show
Cabaret Style Seating Available • First Come, First Serve
Standing Room Only
$49 Advance • $55 Day of Show
Full Menu Available
All Ages for Entry
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About Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford grew up with jazz. As an amateur drummer in the 1960s, and after a handful of lessons from Lou Pocock of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he began his professional career in 1968. He was a guiding light in the so-called British “Art Rock” movement, touring internationally with Yes and King Crimson from 1968-74. There then followed several years spent observing and participating in the music making processes of, among others, Gong, National Health, Genesis and U.K., until Bill felt ready to write and perform his own music with his own band Bruford, recording four albums from 1977-80.
It was, however, the reconstituted King Crimson of 1980-84 that provided the vehicle for his revolutionary use of electronics in developing the melodic side of percussion. Following an interim two year/two album stint improvising on acoustic piano and drums with Patrick Moraz, Bruford formed his electro-acoustic jazz group Earthworks in 1986, with Django Bates and Iain Ballamy, specifically to continue this work on melody from the drum set, but now in a jazz context.
Earthworks, the group’s first offering in 1987, was named the “third best jazz album of the year” by America’s USA Today; then came Dig? (1989), All Heaven Broke Loose (1991), and the summer 1994 Live set, Stamping Ground.
King Crimson again proved itself a veritable percussion think-tank when it launched the double-rhythm team of Bruford and Pat Mastelotto in the 1994 double-trio incarnation. Through late 1994 and 1995, the band toured the world, giving 120 concerts, and producing studio and live CDs documenting its fresh and innovative use of two drummers. 1996 saw further King Crimson concerts, and the production of a CD Rom encapsulating Bruford’s approach, in a tri-format combination of audio and MIDI/digital data, entitled Packet of 3.
In between all this, Bill also found time to record and/or tour with Kazumi Watanabe, David Torn, The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Akira Inoue, Al Di Meola, Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe, the Buddy Rich Orchestra, Tony Levin, Pete Lockett and his old firm Yes amongst others. He continued his work as an active clinician with a series of clinics in Europe and America in 1993, culminating in his highly acclaimed appearance at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention at Columbus, Ohio in November. In 1990, the readers of Modern Drummer Magazine voted him into that magazine’s Hall of Fame.
About ProgJect
ProgJect–the brainchild of drummer Jonathan Mover–features an all-star band of prog-loving top players with histories that include Frank Zappa, Joe Satriani, Jon Anderson, Asia, Alice Cooper, Steve Vai, GTR, Spock’s Beard, Hardline, The Tubes, Marillion and more…
Joining ProgJect for 2024 is vocal virtuoso, Alessandro Del Vecchio. With a four-plus octave range, ADV has lent his talents to various members from Deep Purple, Dream Theater, Jethro Tull, and Kansas, to name only a few, and now allows ProgJect to expand its already-extensive prog repertoire to include vocal hits from Rush, Kansas, Peter Gabriel and more.
ProgJect’s two-plus hour show includes: “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”, “Firth Of Fifth”, “The Cinema Show”, “Larks Tongues In Aspic, Pts I & II”, “21st Century Schizoid Man”, “Roundabout”, “Siberian Khatru”, “Karn Evil 9: First Impression”, Have A Cigar”, “Money“, “In The Dead Of Night”, “Alaska”, “Closer To The Heart”, “Red Barchetta”, “Solsbury Hill”, “D.I.Y.”, “Aqualung”, “Locomotive Breath”, “Cogs In Cogs”, “Hell’s Bells” and more…
About Anil Prasad
Anil Prasad is the founder and editor of Innerviews, the world’s first and longest-running online music magazine. Established in 1994, Innerviews is celebrating 30 years of uncompromising interviews that enable artists to speak at length about topics that matter to them. Prasad was named one of the six most influential music journalists of all time by G.A.S. Media. And Onalytica ranked Innerviews one of the top-100 most influential global music brands.
Event Venue
Sony Hall, 235 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036-1409, United States,New York, New York, Manhattan
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