#55
February 1980
Bruford
Gradually Going Tornado
Genre: You got Jazz in my rock! You got Rock in my Jazz! Either way, I still hate it!
2.25 out of 5
Highlights:
The Sliding Floor
Tornados.
Prog rock seems obsessed with them.
Bruford. Yes (Even though they threw a tomato at the cover…ha ha…it’s a tomato tornado.
Pink Floyd. Don’t believe me? Play the first side of Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz. It lines up perfectly. Right to the Tin Man’s heartbeat.
One would assume, from this title, that the album would eventually pick up steam and become a whirling vortex gathering everything in it’s past.
It does not.
This reminds me of that other jazz/rock passion project, Brand X by Phil Collins. Only that album, Unorthodox Behavior had a catchy number, at least. This is a noodle-fest and I’m not qualified to rate it correctly.
Toward the end of “Q.E.D.” I seriously thought I was listening to hold music for a 70s era, Alex Trebek hosted game show.
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