Bill Bruford’s Earthworks - Footloose And Fancy Free (Teatro Opera, Buenos Aires, 28th Sept 2002)

#billbruford #earthworks This is at the end of a long sweaty evening in front of a great Buenos Aires crowd. South America generally, but particularly Chile and Argentina, have always shown massive appreciation for my stuff, and they don’t fuss about the ’Is it rock, is it jazz?’ business, so it’s all very relaxing. When I was in Crimson in ’95, we lived and rehearsed the music for ’Thrak’ in this city for a while before doing a run of half a dozen shows in town, so we know each other pretty well. This tune ’Footloose and Fancy Free’ became bit of a signature theme for the band, something like ’Hell’s Bells’ did for my late 70s band Bruford. Although I’ve played it a lot, it was often with different personnel in different ensembles, so the (saxophonist) Tim Garland’s version here is going to sound quite different from the (saxophonist) Patrick Clahar’s reading, or the Earthworks Underground 9-piece version, or the original studio rec