William Scott Bruford (born May 17, 1948 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England), better known as Bill Bruford is an influential drummer known for his forceful, extremely exact, polyrhythmic style.

He has been the large figure in the art rock movement since the late 1960s. He has been inside many elastic & collaborated in numerous projects, a best known of which develop been Yes, King Crimson and his own fusion band Bruford. He shot to fame in the early Seventies by owning Yes, swimming in their germinal LPs A Yes Album, Fragile & About A Edge however he stunned fans by quitting a band at a height of their profits inside 1972, accepting an invitation from either Robert Fripp to join King Crimson. Bruford as well spent a year road sustaining Genesis.

Bruford is maybe best known for with revolutionized drumming through the apply of electronic drums & melodic drumming. When Bruford has never to return in to form his have combo, Earthworks, he continues to collaborate with several musicians, including of these-erstwhile Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz and bassist Tony Levin. Earthworks has been his primary focus inside recent years, particularly fallowing his departure from either a latest incarnation of King Crimson around 1999 (which ended the band's "double trio" experiment).

Bruford met his wife-to-exist as, Carolyn, once it were Xv, marrying at Twenty-two. It use at times leash tikes, Alex (born circa 1978, too the drummer & in the band The Infadels), Holly (born circa 1980) and John (born circa 1987).

Notable bands
Yes, from its foundation to 1972's Close to the Edge. He late participated in the related Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe and Union projects. King Crimson, from 1972 and Larks' Tongues in Aspic to the mid-1990s and the ProjeKcts. Collaboration by having many elastic in the mid-to-late-1970s, including touring with Genesis and Gong and playing with National Health. UK. Bruford, a fusion band which freed quaternity albums between 1977 and 1980. Earthworks, his current combo founded within 1986 and which has gone across many incarnations. Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, an experimental collaboration with Tony Levin, David Torn and Chris Botti.

Discography
Feels Good to Me (1978) One of a Kind (1979) Gradually Going Tornado (1980) The Bruford Tapes (1980, compilation) Music for Piano and Drums (1983) Flags (1985) Master Strokes: 1978-1985 (1986, compilaton) Earthworks (1987) Dig? (1989) All Heaven Broke Loose (1991) Symphonic Music of Yes (1993) ''Stamping Ground: Bill Bruford's Earthworks Live (1994, live) Heavenly Bodies (1997) If Summer Had Its Ghosts (1997) A Part & Yet Apart (1999) Sound of Surprise (2001) Upper Extremities (2001) Footloose and Fancy Free (2002, live) Random Acts of Happiness (2004) Every Step a Word, Every Word a Song'' (2004)