If Summer Had Its Ghosts

Eddie Gomez, Bill Bruford, Ralph Towner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 30, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Discipline Us
• ASIN: B000005OO4
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #309,154 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. If Summer Had Its Ghosts

2. Never the Same Way Once

3. Forgiveness

4. Somersaults

5. Thistledown

6. The Ballad of Vilcabamba

7. Amethyst (For Cameron)

8. Splendour Among Shadows

9. Some Other Time

10. Silent Pool

11. Now Is the Next Time

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill's Best Album to Date (and that's saying a lot!), February 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: If Summer Had Its Ghosts (Audio CD)

With this album, Bill Bruford has finally made the jazz album that has been in him all his life. He has finally managed to fuse all the rhythmic sensibilities he has been exploring into a melodic vehicle that more than sparkles, it sings!

If jazz is about music, then ISHiG is about jazz. Bruford and his mates Towner and Gomez play with such style and sophistication that the listener is drawn in like a lover.

Don't let the apparent "simplicity" of the music fool you: there are many layers to peel away here, and each listen brings a fresh revelation.

As one former colleague of mine would say, this album is gorgeous. There's no other word for it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "somersaults" is perfect for what ails me. Great record., December 17, 2000

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Laurence Leabow (Simi, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: If Summer Had Its Ghosts (Audio CD)

I love this album so much. I've heard lots of Bill, practically everything he has recorded and I just appreciate where he's taken me musically over the years as I buy albums because they have his name on them. It's hardly ever a bum steer, but this is especially wonderful because for me it's a new path stylistically and though it's top-drawer playing it's not "challenging." You can just pretty much snuggle right up with it. The title song is one of my favorites and the above mentioned cut is literally therapeutic when I'm stressed-out: It doesn't just soothe it reaches in and validates your humaness at the same time. I had not heard Ralph Towner before this recording and after growing up with Steve Howe and Allan Holdsworth as favorites, his looser style(mainly on twelve-string) is new and refreshing for me. A gem.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mature Bruford, One of His Best, November 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: If Summer Had Its Ghosts (Audio CD)

This was a welcome surprise, Bill Bruford's first venture into more traditional jazz territory. Ralph Towner is spectacular throughout, and Eddie Gomez plays well with Bruford. Bill's writing has become more concise since the first Earthworks days or the One of a Kind album. Great musicianship makes these well-written songs winners.