Bill’s Echoes…
Bill’s latest podcast at 'Echoes' hosted by the extremely knowledgeable John Diliberto is available on Tuesday September 25th. In fact, Bill's had quite a run of podcasts recently, loosely linked around the themes of his [...]
Bruford-Levin Upper Extremities
News that autographed copies of the two albums from our late 1990s fin-de-siècle band are back in my shop calls for a couple of reflections on their making and critical reception. The group's origins can [...]
Keith Tippett campaign
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 [...]
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH PUBLIC MEMORIAL
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 [...]
FURTHER U.S. DATES CONFIRMED
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 [...]
SCANDINAVIAN & U.S. DATES ANNOUNCED
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 [...]
Drum lessons, and Roy Harper’s ‘HQ’
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 [...]
Incoming: book reviews for ‘Uncharted’.
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 [...]
Rolling Stone best prog albums of 2017
'Seems like a Lifetime Ago', the well-received box set of the Bruford band from 1977-1980, has leapt onto the best seller lists alongside Can and King Crimson in what Rolling Stone calls a 'banner year' [...]
Welcome back!
We’ve been away for a bit, but this site has recently been refurbished, updated, polished and refined to within an inch of its life. When we left you in 2013, Bill was a musician. We [...]