Eddie Jobson
Edwin Jobson ( born May 28, 1955 in Billingham, England ) is a British rock musician, television and advertising music composer. He plays keyboard and violin.
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Life
Early years
Jobson began playing violin and piano at the age of eight. At 16, he formed the band Fat Grapple. This group played on different occasions, for example a few times as the opening act of Curved Air
In Curved Air
This band joined Jobson 1973, where he simultaneously replaced the violinist Darryl Way and Francis Monkman keyboardist. With this band Jobson recorded two albums, which he contributed some of his own pieces.
With Roxy Music
The fact that the Sisters of Eddie Jobson and Bryan Ferry had an apartment together, the next station came in Jobsons career. Only Jobson played on Ferry's solo album These Foolish Things, then he joined Roxy Music as a replacement for Brian Eno and took the group released three studio albums ( Stranded, Country Life and Siren ) and the live album Viva! Roxy Music on.
Session musicians
He subsequently worked as a sought-after studio and live musician with the group Amazing Blondel and artists such as Dana Gillespie, Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera, Roger Glover, John Entwistle and Frank Zappa together.
In 1976 he released the solo single "Yesterday Boulevard " / "On a Still Night".
Jobson John Wetton knew from the Roxy Music tour. He invited him to contribute some overdubs for King Crimson live album USA.
UK
After a band project by Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford and John Wetton did not materialize, Bruford invited the fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth, Wetton and Eddie Jobson, together to form a band. Under the name of UK, the band released two studio albums (UK, Danger Money ) and the live album Night After Night brought out the cast was rebuilt as a drummer after the first album on a trio with Terry Bozzio. After the band broke up despite great public popularity,, Jobson again worked as a studio musician.
1980 Jobson was after extensive dissolution of the previous line-ups keyboardist and violinist for Jethro Tull, where he was no stranger, as in previous Tull concerts Roxy Music and UK had appeared as opening acts. He took the band on the album A and also graduated from the subsequent world tour, documented on the DVD Slipstream (bonus supplement of the remastered version of A ). Jobsons game takes on A, the first in a series a keyboard - dominated Tull albums, wide space; his solos are in some pieces on equal footing with those of Ian Anderson on the flute and those of Martin Barre on guitar. According to the liner notes Jobson contributed also compositional material.
Zinc
Then left Jobson Jethro Tull and put his own band called " Zinc " along which ( The Green Album) brought a single album on the market.
Solo
Trevor Rabin, Chris Squire and Alan White, who were forced by Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun boss to write a commercial album, wanted Eddie Jobson in 1981 to found a new band called Cinema. But Jobson, the middle of the recordings to Zinc - put album The green, initially had to cancel. He was then replaced by Tony Kaye, a former Yes member. After also Yes singer Jon Anderson was been joined to the project, called the new band Yes. As Kaye, who personally got along with producer Trevor Horn not good, wanted to get a short time later, they picked Jobson in the band. This was then for two weeks Member of Yes and is seen briefly in the video for Owner of a Lonely Heart. Due to legal problems, another name Yes founding member was then but needed, and Kaye returned. The offer, the keyboard work to share with this, Jobson rejected in view of the less demanding parts, he left the band it permanently.
After that Jobson devoted to the New Age music. The result was his solo album Theme of Secrets, which was released on the Private Music label of ex- Tangerine Dream member Peter Baumann.
Lately Jobson wrote music for commercials and for television, written, among others, for the U.S. television series Nash Bridges. In 2000 he produced the album of the Bulgarian Women Choir Voices of Life, in which he contributed three new compositions and also played violin. Since 2000 he runs his own Musik-/Videoproduktionsfirma called Globe Music Media Arts.
UKZ
In October 2007 the foundation of a new progressive rock supergroup called UKZ was announced. Members are Eddie Jobson, former King Crimson bassist Trey Gunn ( Warr guitar), Greg Howe, Alex Machacek, Marco Minnemann and singer Aaron Lippert, who had been involved in a failed UK Reunion 1999. The group name alludes both to the earlier projects in UK and Zinc. An album is planned for 2008.
Discography
Solo
- Zinc: The Green Album - 1983.
- Theme of Secrets - 1985.