Stamping Ground (album)

Stamping Ground is a live album by Bill Bruford's Earthworks, released on EG Records in 1994. It was the final Earthworks album to feature Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and Tim Harries. Four years later, Bruford would form a new version of Earthworks in a more traditional acoustic jazz vein.

Stamping Ground
Live album by
Bill Bruford's Earthworks
ReleasedMarch 10, 1994
RecordedMarch 14, 1992 and May 22, 1992 (New York & Boston (US), Cambridge (UK))
GenreJazz fusion
LabelSummerfold Records
ProducerBill Bruford, Derek Drescher
Bill Bruford's Earthworks chronology
All Heaven Broke Loose
(1991)		 Stamping Ground
(1994)		 Heavenly Bodies
(1997)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[2]

The AllMusic review by Bill Meredith awards this album with 4.5 stars and states: "Bruford's chordal patterns sound practically symphonic amid his epic starts and stops — further proof of the originality of one of the most musical drummers of all-time. Like all great live releases, Stamping Ground makes you wish you had been there."[3]

Writing for All About Jazz, John Kelman called the album "in some ways the most surprising record of Bruford's career to date," and noted that it "demonstrated what those fortunate enough to have caught the group in performance already knew—that despite Bruford's reputation for rigid structure in earlier projects within and outside his leadership, this was a group where every performance was, indeed, a new experience."[4]

Track listing
  1. "Nerve" (Iain Ballamy) – 6:07
  2. "Up North" (Ballamy, Bill Bruford) – 5:20
  3. "A Stones Throw" (Ballamy, Django Bates, Bruford) – 8:26
  4. "Pilgrim's Way" (Bruford) – 8:45
  5. "Emotional Shirt" (Bates) – 6:01
  6. "It Needn't End in Tears" (Ballamy) – 8:02
  7. "All Heaven Broke Loose: I Psalm; II Old Song" (Ballamy, Bates, Bruford) – 7:46
  8. "Candles Still Flicker in Romania's Dark" (Bates) – 6:41
  9. "Bridge of Inhibition" (Ballamy, Bates, Bruford) – 10:58

Personnel

References
  1. Allmusic – review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 185.
  3. Meredith, B. Allmusic Review: Stamping Ground
  4. Kelman, John (9 October 2005). "Bill Bruford's Earthworks: All Heaven Broke Loose / Stamping Ground". All About Jazz. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
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