Footloose and Fancy Free

by Bill Bruford's Earthworks

Footloose and Fancy Free cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2002-01-01
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:57:45
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Steve Hamilton, Mark Hodgson, Patrick Clahar, Bill Bruford

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Footloose and Fancy Free' captures Bill Bruford's Earthworks in concert, drawing on jazz ensemble improvisation. Extended passages and improvisation play a larger role than on studio recordings, with songs allowed to stretch in performance.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, rhythmic, instrumental, virtuosic, saxophone, fusion

Tracklist

  1. Footloose and Fancy Free (9:01)
  2. If Summer Had Its Ghosts (8:29)
  3. A Part, And yet Apart (10:25)
  4. Triplicity (7:39)
  5. Come to Dust (10:52)
  6. No Truce with the Furies (6:55)
  7. The Wooden Man Sings, And the Stone Woman Dances (7:20)
  8. Revel Without a Pause (8:43)
  9. Never the Same Way Once (10:13)
  10. Original Sin (7:49)
  11. Cloud Cuckoo Land (8:07)
  12. Dewey-Eyed, Then Dancing (6:31)
  13. The Emperor's New Clothes (7:45)
  14. Bridge of Inhibition (7:56)

Credits

More from Bill Bruford's Earthworks: full discography