TL is amazing, and I love this example of his playing.
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Tony Levin
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Thanks for exposing me to some TL I'd never have heard otherwise. Last time I listened to Chuck was High School maybe. 
Levin is all over the place. I was learning this song once to play in a band I'm in. It's a simple song, but I was curious about who the bassist was. Steve Gadd is also the drummer on this one.
I knew Levin's work from way back in my early prog days, from his work with Gabriel and King Crimson, mainly. Never knew he had played on so many tracks as a studio cat.
I knew Levin's work from way back in my early prog days, from his work with Gabriel and King Crimson, mainly. Never knew he had played on so many tracks as a studio cat.
Polytown is the one with Karn, I’m at a gig I’ll have to check on the other one when I get home. I dig me some David Torn though.
I got to see BLUE (Bruford and Levins Upper Extremities) with David Torn and Chris Botti from the front row at Toads Place in New Haven Connecticut back in the late 90's I even got the CD signed and had a funny interaction about KC's Discipline album.
C/S,
Rev J
I'm familiar with this. What do you mean that the samples are wrong....and what exactly is your question about it? I saw the band live (with Mark White in for Isham) shortly after the album came out and it was excellent....
Come to think of it, I think Mick Karn was the bass player on the live show I saw too......
Click on the mp3 version (at Amazon) & it links to a different album. That happens sometimes.
Buyer Beware.
Another off the top of my head is Flight Path by Sphere. The mp3 link is Flight Path by Kenny Barron. Close.
** pretty sure it was Michael White on violin. [Edit: Apparently I'm mistaken.]
But yep, the quartet who recorded the Cloud About Mercury album was Torn, Isham, Levin, & Bruford, but the subsequent tour in support of the album was Torn, Isham, Karn, & Bruford for a few months, and then Torn, White, Karn, & Bruford
I love that album. And still kick myself for skipping their gig at The Bottom Line in 1987.
YouTube has some videos of the Torn, Isham, Karn, & Bruford lineup:
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Any idea where this tour played in Boston?
I am almost certain I saw this, but it’s maybe mixing with a memory of David Sylvian of Japan on a solo tour and I also think I saw David Torn with Stanley Clark.
Pure conjecture here, but based on other acts that played there around the same time, I would guess The Club (aka Nightstage) on Main Street in Cambridge.
