Bill Bruford on how Drummers use Creativity

I’m often asked why I stopped performing in public, and it was simply because I had nothing more to say – I couldn’t hear what came next. I don’t mean the next beat in the song, I mean what ideas came next in the bigger movie. It had been symphonic rock; it had been a fusion of jazz harmony and rock muscle; it had been electronics, melodies and odd meters; it had been improvisation with Michiel Borstlap. What came next? Turns out my next creative step was to examine creativity, my thoughts on which appeared in a book “Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer “. Cindy Blackman Santana, Peter Erskine, Martin France, Mark Guiliana, Dylan Howe, Ralph Salmins, Asaf Sirkis, Thomas Stronen and Chad Wackerman all contributed mightly to the book; I’m grateful to all.