King Crimson

The astonishing 1977 debut album from drumming legend Bill Bruford.

Featuring a stellar line up including guitarists Allan Holdsworth and John Goodsall, bassist Jeff Berlin, keyboardist Dave Stewart, ECM flügelhorn maestro, Kenny Wheeler, and singer-songwriter Annette Peacock.

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Features bonus track, Joe Frazier.

One Of A Kind, from 1979, is one of the most celebrated Bruford-related offerings.

Featuring the classic quartet of Bruford, Dave Stewart, Jeff Berlin and Allan Holdsworth, the album demonstrated a consistency and purity of vision that fully reflected the band's ongoing creative growth and maturity.

"A monumental step in the drummer's career, perhaps the greatest one, here is a branch from the progressive rock history tree that should not be overlooked." - Michael Ezzo, Expose.

Following "Feels Good To Me" and its acclaimed successor "One of a Kind", Bruford continued to evolve and experiment on "Gradually Going Tornado", the last studio release by his astonishing group, Bruford.

Exhibiting a left-field shift in direction, the album featured bassist Jeff Berlin on lead vocals for the first time and new guitarist 'The Unknown' John Clark.

This re-mastered re-issue includes a previously unreleased version of "Five G" as a bonus track.

Recorded as part of a live television programme and aired in March 1979, this is thought to be Bruford the band's debut gig, following Bill Bruford and Allan Holdsworth's time with Eddie Jobson and John Wetton in UK.

The concert was filmed as part of the BBC TV series Rock Goes To College at Oxford Polytechnic and featured the classic line-up of Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Berlin, Dave Stewart and Annette Peacock, playing material from the albums Feels Good To Me and One Of A Kind.

Available on CD, DVD and vinyl

A pioneering drum instructional video filmed in New York and New Haven in early 1982, 'Bruford and the Beat' contains solos, interviews, demonstrations and rare footage of Bill in performance with King Crimson.

Featuring guest appearances from Robert Fripp and Steve Howe, the result is both entertaining and educational.

A truly intriguing insight into the work of one of the World's most distinctive drummers.

One of the first of the "beat the bootleggers" albums, The Bruford Tapes was recorded in the Summer of 1979.

Featuring the Bill Bruford, Dave Stewart, Jeff Berlin and 'The Unknown' John Clark line-up, the album ably captured the raw power of Bruford live, whilst sacrificing none of the band's instrumental sophistication.

This re-mastered reissue includes the previously unreleased bonus track, The Age Of Information.

Dating from 1999, this is the type of engaging and challenging music you might expect when King Crimson's ace rhythm section creatively collides with David Torn's unique wails and loops, and Chris Botti's Miles Davis inspired cool melodic sensibility.

Pieces vary from gentle Jazz-tinged ballads to complex Crimson-esque hard rock escapades.

Recorded live in Japan and the US during 1998, Blue Nights is the acclaimed double cd release from Bruford and Levin's Jazz-tinged Art Rock supergroup project, B.L.U.E..

An ideal companion piece to King Crimson's innovative, contemporaneous ProjeKct series of releases.

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Bill Bruford - drums, percussion
Tony Levin - basses, stick
David Torn - guitars, loops, oud
Chris Botti - trumpet