Composer · 1949

Bill Bruford

Biography

Bill Bruford is an English drummer, composer and author whose career spans progressive rock, jazz and electronic percussion. He came to prominence with Yes and King Crimson and later led the bands Bruford and Earthworks. His work has explored melody, rhythmic structure and improvisation through acoustic and electronic instruments. Frame by Frame, co-written with Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp and Tony Levin for King Crimson, is reinterpreted on Marco Tiraboschi’s In a New World.

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