The Winterfold Collection 1978-1986
The Summerfold Collection 1987-2008 (Winterfold/Summerfold)
Bill Bruford was much admired for his elaborate drumming in Yes and King Crimson before he stepped out as a jazz-rock fusion soloist. The best music on the first of two career-spanning anthologies, The Winterfold Collection, is the earliest, culled from Bruford's first album, Feels Good to Me. It featured the remarkable Annette Peacock, a vocalist who placed "sultry" in slightly ironic quotation marks. Summerfold chronicles Bruford's progress away from the banalities of fusion and toward contemporary jazz, often in a Pat Metheny mode.
