A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to raise funds to promote a Testimonial Concert for Keith Tippett, early King Crimson pianist and major jazz star. Keith is recovering from a heart attack with complications and is [...]
The imminent re-release of Chris Squire’s Fish out of Water as a lavish box set (a box set of one album…?) has sparked interest in my involvement, and questions are coming my way about the [...]
For those who haven’t seen them yet, here are the details for the celebration of the life of the late, great guitarist Allan Holdsworth on April 15th in California. Bill will be in Buffalo, NY [...]
My recent brush with academia has been exhausting, illuminating, provocative and dispiriting - sometimes all at once. It’s been a longish journey beginning Autumn 2011 when I enrolled at Surrey University in the UK. I [...]
Further dates have been added to Bill’s series of talks on creativity in music performance. No more will be added after this. The trip ends appropriately enough in Cleveland, OH, at the Rock and Roll [...]
Bill will be out and about speaking on the topic of his new book at a limited number of Universities and music institutions in Scandinavia and the US, through March and April. Most events are [...]
Noodling around on the net, Sal Nunziato’s blog caught my eye. He suggests that very little has been said about Yes’ first album, so I thought I’d try to be helpful. Of course, we Yes-men [...]
Two items of interest. We're always asked if Bill is teaching - the answer is no, but he does have a series of free online lessons recorded sometime back at Salvador Niebla's excellent bi-lingual English [...]
Initial reviews for Bill’s new book, available from the University of Michigan Press, suggest that it will be warmly received in both academic and drum communities on publication this January: “… an intelligent, thought-provoking treatise [...]
I’d like to thank all our friends and visitors for your support through 2017 and for dropping by and having a look around on Facebook or here on my new site. Looks like 2018 is [...]