Earthworks: Footloose And Fancy Free

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“I didn’t know I liked jazz, but if this is jazz, I love it!”

• 2CD 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.

Tracklist

DISC ONE
1 FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY FREE
2IF SUMMER HAD ITS GHOSTS
3 A PART, AND YET APART
4 TRIPLICITY
5 COME TO DUST
6 NO TRUCE WITH THE FURIES
7 THE WOODEN MAN SINGS, AND THE STONE WOMAN DANCES

DISC TWO
1 REVEL WITHOUT A PAUSE
3 NEVER THE SAME WAY ONCE
4 ORIGINAL SIN
5 CLOUD CUCKOO LAND
6 DEWEY-EYED, THEN DANCING
7 THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
8 BRIDGE OF INHIBITION
9 THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Bonus track)