Earthworks: Footloose And Fancy Free

Quality set recorded at the Pizza Express, Jazz Club, Soho, London (2001). Earthworks seventh album re-affirms the band’s commitment to the road-seasoned telepathy of a tightly bound live working unit.

The music is taken from across the band’s full repertoire, plus rarities from Bill Bruford and bassist Tony Levin (‘Original Sin’) and Bruford’s chamber jazz outing with Ralph Towner and Eddie Gomez (‘If Summer Had Its Ghosts’). Featuring stately, sugar-free ballads like ‘Come To Dust’ and ‘Dewey-Eyed Then Dancing’, this may be some of the band’s best work, and certainly its most melodic.

Contains the bonus track ‘The Shadow of a Doubt’. This album has been out of print for some time and this re-release is on Bruford’s own Summerfold Records. It was produced and overseen personally by Bill Bruford.