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YES and projects with several Yesmen	Jon Anderson	Chris Squire	Steve Howe	Alan White
Rick Wakeman	Bill Bruford	Tony Kaye	Peter Banks	Patrick Moraz
Trevor Horn	Geoff Downes	Trevor Rabin	Billy Sherwood	Igor Khoroshev
Anderson & Wakeman	Asia	CIRCA: Yoso	Oliver Wakeman Benoît David	Others associated with the band

On this page:  Damion Anderson - Deborah Anderson - Jade Anderson - Tony Anderson - Jeff Berlin - Tom Brislin - Alex Bruford - Nina (Wakeman) Carter- Matt Clifford - Julian Colbeck - Roger Dean - Francis Dunnery - Jonathan Elias - Ahmet Ertegün - David Foster - Bruce Gowdy - Larry Groupé - Jimmy Haun - Aaron Horn - Dylan Howe - Jen Howe - Virgil Howe - Zoë Street Howe - Andrew Jackman - J. J. Jeczalik - Eddie Jobson - Sidonie Jordan - Gary Langan - Alex Lasarenko - Tony Levin - Milton McDonald - Frank Macchia - Mark Mancina - Eddie Offord - Tony O'Riley - Michael Plotnikoff - Steve Porcaro - Graham Preskett - Alex Proyce - Ryan Rabin - Randy Raine-Reusch - Bobby Sherwood - Michael Sherwood - Phyllis Sherwood - Jill Sinclair - Pete Sinfield - Carmen Squire - Chandrika Squire - Nikki Squire - Vangelis - Adam Wakeman - Benjamin Wakeman - Jemma Wakeman - Tim Weidner - Jesse White

Damion has a band project called Vincent Kane, consisting of Damion (lead vocals), Drew Lowe (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Parkinson (Darkroom Project; bass, backing vocals), Lucas Van Rensburg VIII (drums). Their MySpace had four demos: "River's Edge" (previously previewed as a solo project on a now defunct MySpace account), "Mr Hayne", "First Time" and "Rattlesnake". It now has four pieces: "Brother Sister", "First Time", "Tame the Animal" and "4 in the Morning" (acoustic). They played two London shows in Apr 2009. In an Oct 2009 interview, dad Jon said of Damion:

My son just went into the studio for the first time. He's been writing good songs forever, but he's never gone in to record correct. He's always in with a band, he wants to be in a band, you know. They are making a lot of noise. Now he's figured it out and is doing it right.

Damion (vocals, guitar) had previously formed Zen State with Parkinson, Giampaolo Cavallo (guitars, keys), Luca Harb (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Rob Cornish (V-RO; drums). They had four songs on their MySpace page: "New York", "The Snail", "Maybe Tonight", "Muddy Waters". A video for "Muddy Waters" can also be viewed. The band played dates in west London.

Jade has been finishing her second solo album in Los Angeles, due 2010. She can be heard singing "Stars" on a promotional video for a calendar she co-produced with sister Deborah—see above.

She had been writing material with Future Cut (Darren Lewis and Tunde Babalola; worked with Lily Allen, Natasha Beddingfield, Kelis), Paul Statham (worked with Shelly Poole, Sophie Ellis-Bextor) and others. One of Jade's song with Statham, "Chasing Butterflies", was to be heard on streaming audio on her MySpace page. Also available there were demos entitled "How Many Days", "'Life'", "Give It Up" and "Love Without Gold". A 2007 demo entitled "Tell Me" is now there. At the end of 2007, she began working with Leo Z (MySpace page; Leonardo De Bernadini; worked with Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli) on an album due 2009. (I am unclear whether this will build on the earlier work with Statham and Future Cut or is a fresh start.) Her MySpace page reported that she is also writing material for other artists. The MySpace page currently has "On the Run", "Your Name", "Tell Me", "Laughing", "Before It Starts Again...", "Life", "Come and Get Me...", "Love Without Gold", "Love" and "Time...".

Jade's debut album, Dive Deeper (Columbia Records), was released in Japan in 2002. A planned US release was indefinitely postponed and, while it was reported that the album was being re-recorded in Los Angeles for the US release, such appears to have been abandoned and Jade has split from Columbia. In Dec 2007, a 10-track digital-only album called Jade Anderson was released on Music World Music in the US; tracks: "Who's Loving You Now", "Love Without", "You Held Me", "For Your Lessons", "Constant Talking", "Sweet Memories Recall", "You Held Me (Alternate)", "Sweet Memories", "Nothing More". This appears to be most, but not all, of Dive Deeper, albeit re-ordered and with two alternate versions added ("Sweet Memories Recall", "You Held Me (Alternate)").

Jade also works as an actress and model (including for Deborah Anderson). She is the "new face" of the US Virgin Islands tourism campaign; the campaign's video can be seen here. She has had roles in "CSI" and "Nip/Tuck".

Berlin has released a new album, High Standards, on his own MAJ Records label with himself (electric bass), Richard Drexler (Woody Herman Orchestra; piano, upright bass) and Danny Gottlieb (Pat Metheny; drums). He will be touring in support of the album with Drexler, Gottlieb, Othello Molineaux (ex-Jaco Pastorius; steel drums) and Randy Brecker. Berlin also tours in BX3 with Stuart Hamm and Billy Sheehan.

Berlin runs The Players School of Music in Florida.

He appears on a re-release of ABWH's "An Evening of Yes Music Plus" (details under Yes). A recording by Berlin, Bill Bruford (drums) and Robert Fripp (guitar) from work prior to the 1981 King Crimson reunion is available free (registration required) through DGM Live—see under Bruford.

One report has that Brislin is going to work on a solo album. He remains a keyboardist, singer and songwriter with his own band Spiraling, with Paul Wells (drums), Marty O'Kane (guitar), Bob Hart (bass). The band play regularly around New Jersey. Their latest album, Time Travel Made Easy, is now out. Brislin also does regular house concerts.

Brislin has joined the new line-up of Renaissance put together by Annie Haslam and Michael Dunford for a short 40th anniversary tour of the US north-east. International touring and an album are planned for 2010. The full line-up is Haslam (worked with Steve Howe; lead vocals), Dunford (acoustic guitars, vocals), Rave Tesar (Annie Haslam Band; keys), David J Keyes (Annie Haslam Band; bass, vocals), Brislin (keys, vocals), Frank Pagano (worked with Bruce Springsteen, Smashing Pumpkins; drums, percussion). Brislin, Tesar and Keyes were also in Haslam's band for a solo show on 17 Dec in Sellersville, PA.

Brislin was also in The Syn with Steve Nardelli (vocals) and Francis Dunnery (guitar). Brislin is now continuing to work with Dunnery in The New Progressives and on Dunnery's solo work, including touring in 2010—see under Dunnery for details.

Brislin writes for Keyboard Magazine.

Al drums in The Infadels (MySpace page), along side Bnann Watts (vocals), Matt Gooderson (guitar, electronics), Wag Marshall-Page (bass) and Richie Vermin (electronic, percussion). The band play live regularly. The band's second album, Universe in Reverse, is now out and was produced by Martin "Youth" Glover (Killing Joke, Transmission, ex-System 7). Two single releases were planned: "Make Mistakes" and "Free Things". They tour western Europe through to Nov.

Nina runs her training company, Nina's People Limited. She is working on her autobiography, saying in Jun 2007 that, "I've written three chapters and am looking for a publisher."

Clifford continues to work with the Rolling Stones.

Colbeck played with the group Charlie in the late 1970s. A partial reunion of the band under Terry Thomas, with Colbeck and Martin Smith (slide guitar) has produced the new album Kitchens of Distinction (Voiceprint), released 2009.

Voiceprint have re-released Back to Bach (VP522CD) by Julian Colbeck with Jonathan Cohen (originally released in 1992). The album features re-workings of Bach's fugues, while guests guitarist Steve Hackett (working with Chris Squire, ex-Genesis, ex-GTR), Milton McDonald (worked with ABWH, The Spice Girls), John Keeble (Spandau Ballet), Mary Hopkin and Brian Keenan.

David's news is now here.

Dean did design work for Yes's summer 2009 tour with Asia—details on main page. He was also planning to do set design for their 2008 tour before it was cancelled. Previously, in a Feb 2008 interview, Dean said:

Yes are going out on tour this summer as well [...] There is something I’m doing which may be connected to that. It isn’t connected to it, but it may become connected to it, I’m building three Yes landscapes for a company that’s building virtual worlds. You will be able to visit these landscapes and because they’re going to be made at quite a high standard it might be possible that we will have a short film made of them as well. I’ll be going out to California because the first deliverable for that one is in March.

He did cover art for Asia's albums Phoenix and Omega and is doing cover art for a forthcoming album from Yes. He continues to work on his film project, "Floating Islands"—details on main page. Dean is designing landscapes based on his art for a virtual reality project from new company Virtual Space Entertainment. He describes the project in a Mar 2008 interview for YesFANZ.

Dean's third book, "Dragon's Dreams", is out, with his first two, "Views" and "Magnetic Storm", being re-published in 2008/9 at about 6-monthly intervals. At 224 pages, "Dragon's Dreams" covers Dean's work since the publication of "Magnetic Storm" about 25 years ago. It has forewords by Syd Mead and Rick Wakeman. There is also a re-release his "Album Cover Album" from the same publisher, with a new preface/forewords by Peter Gabriel (ex-Genesis), John Wetton (Asia, ex-King Crimson, ex-UK) and Storm Thorgerson (worked with Yes and many others). Dean is also planning some further new books, saying in the Mar 2008 interview: "I need a separate book on architecture and I really want to do a book on creativity. I've been asked so many times because I give lectures on the subject to put it in a small book. I am quite keen to do that so that will come out within a year or 18 months." In 2008/9, he has or has had exhibitions in San Franciso, CA, in Tokyo, Japan, in New York and a travelling exhibition (curated by Jonathan Paul) in Europe. In Jul 2009, he was back exhibiting in San Francisco at the San Francisco Art Exchange in Jul. Yes and Asia played San Francisco on 2 Jul and members of the bands attended the exibition along side Dean. The original artwork for Relayer remains on sale there for $2 million. The original art work for Drama sold for a 7-figure sum in 2008. Dean is going through his archives and plans to release a series of Drama sketches in 2010 or soon after. He has done a 2010 calendar.

Another exhibition has been announced at Trading Boundaries in East Sussex, UK in Oct 2009. Dean will be in attendance, and there will be a performance on 2 Oct by Yes tribute band Fragile.

In terms of architectural work, in the Mar 2008 interview, Dean describes plans for 3 or 4 houses in Hawaii and for other projects, including possibly a hotel.

Dunnery's The New Progressives Tour featuring The Brand New It Bites consisted of UK dates in Oct/Nov. The New Progressives project will re-record and tour material by Dunnery's former band It Bites, and more. The core band are Francis Dunnery (vocals, guitar), Tom Brislin (Spiraling, ex-The Syn, worked with Yes, Camel; keys), Brett Kull (echolyn; guitar, engineer, mix), Paul Ramsey (echolyn; drums) and Jamie Bishop (bass), i.e. most of the backing band for The Syn's 2009 live dates. Adverts describe a set of It Bites classics and some new material. In an Oct 2008 interview, Dunnery said they will play new material, It Bites songs and songs by "classic" prog bands including Genesis and maybe King Crimson. The Jun press release for the tour talks of It Bites material and other covers, with Dunnery saying:

I have been in discussions with the band for the past few weeks and we are beginning to get on the same page. I have sent them the songs that we will be 'Progressin' and they are busy soaking them up as we speak. [...] The live show should be a trip, we are definitely going to be doing some pretty weird shit

There's a Whole New World Out There is a new 2CD album with the same core line-up and along similar lines, mostly re-recordings of old It Bites ("Kiss Like Judas", "Old Man & the Angel", "Hunting the Whale", "Underneath Your Pillow", "Sister Sarah", "Yellow Christian", "Murder of Planet Earth") and Dunnery solo material, but also including a cover of Genesis' "Back in NYC". John Mitchell (It Bites, Kino, Frost*, Arena, ex-John Wetton, ex-iCon; guitar), Theo Travis (Soft Machine Legacy, The Tangent, Travis & Fripp, ex-Gong, ex-Porcupine Tree; sax) and Simon Rogers (Also Eden) guest. Multiple further guests were planned for this album, but this has not happened. Travis also guested at the London show.

Dunnery has been touring in support of his solo catalogue, including shows involving Brislin, Kull, Ramsey, Dorie Jackson (David Jackson's daughter) and/or Erica Brilhart. Ramsey and Jackson played shows on Dunnery's recent solo tour in 2008/9. See my review of Dunnery's 1 Nov 2008 show here. Replacing the cancelled Syn tour, Dunnery has been playing solo dates in May/Jun, including a 20 Jun pair of shows focusing on his album The Gulley Flat Boys, with Brislin on keys, in Philadelphia, PA. Further shows with Brislin focusing on The Gulley Flat Boys followed in the UK and Ireland, Feb/Mar 2010. In Oct, Dunnery is doing a show in New York focusing on his album Tall Blonde Helicopter with a band including Kull, Ramsey, Bishop and Brilhart (keys). He is also doing 'house concerts' in the US (with Brilhart) focusing on his solo career, while UK 'house concerts' in early Oct focusing on acoustic renditions of It Bites material.

Dunnery re-joined It Bites for a charity single for Cumbria flood relief, also featuring Geoff Downes: see under Downes.

Dunnery was in The Syn with Steve Nardelli (vocals) and Brislin (keys). The band split up after a curtailed 2009 tour; the touring line-up also included Kull (guitar, banjo), Ramsey (drums), Bishop (bass), Dorie Jackson (backing vocals) and Brilhart, all of whom had previously worked with Dunnery. Ramsey, Jackson, Kull and, on one track, Travis also joined Dunnery, Brislin and Nardelli on the album released, Big Sky.

Dunnery and Jem Godfrey (Frost*; keys) guest on the title track of Big Big Train's forthcoming album The Underfall Yard.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the flim "Children of the Corn", Varèse Sarabande are releasing Elias' score on CD (17 tracks) for the first time on 12 Oct. This is a limited edition of 1000 copies, and has already sold out on pre-orders.

Elias is working on Prayers in Silence, a sequel to 1999's The Prayer Cycle, and due on Universal Classics. Described on his website (which has since disappeared) as a "symphonic journey through the atomic age", the project includes appearances by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Jonathan Davis (Korn), Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Sting, Trudie Styler (Sting's wife), Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Alanis Morissette, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (vocals), Salif Keita (vocals), Angelique Kidjo (vocals), Hassan Hakmoun (vocals), Richard Bona (vocals). Elias' website also said, "this fresh "Cycle" mixes new electronics in a uniquely collaborative way". In 2001, Elias described being contracted with Sony Classical for two follow-up albums to 1999's The Prayer Cycle, although this project and American River (see next paragraph) are on Universal Classics.

Elias' last release was American River (Universal Classics). Composed and arranged by Elias, the album is a tone poem consisting of spoken words over a score for stringed instruments, piano and percussion. Spoken word performances are by the late Johnny Cash, Roseanne Cash (daughter of Johnny), Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart and Kris Kristofferson. Musicians include Elias (piano, gamelan) and Jimmy Haun (guitar, 12-string guitar).

Elias runs Elias Arts with his brother Scott and Alex Lasarenko, supplying music for film and television. The company also employs Michael Sherwood and Jimmy Haun, among others. Haun and Elias were working with singer Lindsey Haun (MySpace page; Jimmy's daughter). Elias, with help from Haun and Wittman did the music for the film "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"; Elias was also an executive producer.

Foster's autobiography, "Yours is No Disgrace", is expected at some point from his webpage.

The four original members of Unruly Child—Gowdy (guitar), Guy Allison (ex-World Trade; keys), Jay Schellen (GPS, CIRCA:, ex-Asia, ex-Conspiracy, ex-World Trade, ex-Peter Banks; drums, percussion), Marcie (formerly Mark) Free (ex-King Kobra; vocals)—have re-united to record a new album (to be written by Gowdy/Allison/Free) to be released on Frontiers Records in 2010. In Aug 2009, Schellen said Larry Antonio (MySpace page; worked with Air Supply, Ricky Martin, Mos Def) would be on bass.

Work began but then stalled on a new World Trade album, but some material co-written and performed by Gowdy is expected on another project by Billy Sherwood—see main page for details.

Gowdy continues to work with Mercedes. He produced her debut album Rock-n-Soul Blvd, from which has been taken the single "Hey Baby" (featuring Guerilla Black). Gowdy also mixed and mastered the album with Troy Stanton. Gowdy also produced The Day the World Awoke by Marcus Eaton and The Lobby. Gowdy continues to work as a producer and songwriter for albums and TV/film.

Groupé has recently released his solo album Mission (Imperativa Records).

Groupé conducted for the Globus project (MySpace page), headed by composer/producer Yoav Goren (co-founded Immediate Music). Their new album Epicon (Imperativa Records, GLOBUSCDA1) is out in the UK and US (on Globus Music, Inc.). It is 70 min.s in duration and was recorded with a 100-piece orchestra, a 70-piece choir (The Purcell Singers) and various guest musicians. Orchestrations were by Groupé, Goren, Lennie Moore, Hummie Mann, Bruce Donnelly and Steven Scott Smalley

The main players consist of Goren (composer, producer, piano, synth, percussion), Dann "Dann P" Pursey (Vanton; vocals, guitar; appears on 5 tracks in all), Anneke van Giersbergen (ex-The Gathering, The Human Experimente, worked with Wetton/Downes' Icon; vocals), Greg Bissonette (drums), Matt Bissonette (worked with Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson, David Lee Roth; bass), Jeffrey Fayman (co-founded Immediate Music, The Human Experimente, worked with Peter Banks' Empire, Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Adrian Belew; composer, piano, synth, programming), Lisbeth Scott (worked with Hans Zimmer and on "Chronicles of Narnia", "Munich", "The Passion of the Christ"; vocals), Scott Ciscon (vocals), Tal Badani (guitar, vocals), Tate Simms (worked with Christine Aguilera; bass, guitar) and Terry Wood (vocals). Further guests include Robert Fripp (King Crimson; electric guitar), Brian Otto (acoustic guitar), Clive Gregson (bass), Christine Collister (bass). The material is largely based on Immediate Music's library of film trailer music, previously released on the collections Themes for Orchestra and Choir and Abbey Road. Tracks:

1. "Preliator" with Latin vocals by Scott; piece used in "Spiderman 2" trailer
2. "Mighty Rivers Run" with lyrics and vocals by van Giersbergen
   
3. "Prelude (On Earth as in Heaven)" with vocals by Pursey
4. "Spiritus Khayyam"
5. "La Coronacion"
   
6. "Europa"
7. "Diem ex Dei" with Latin vocals by van Giersbergen and Christine Navarro; piece used in "Spiderman 3" trailer
   
8. "Orchard Of Mines" co-written and with lead vocals by Pursey, backing vocals by van Giersbergen; to be released as a single; piece used in "Spiderman 2" trailer; covered by Asia on Phoenix
   
9. "Crusaders of the Light"
10. "Madre Terra", lyrics co-written by Frank Musker (worked with Il Divo, Hayley Westerna, Josh Groban); tenor solo by Ciscon
11. "Illumination", vocals by Wood
    
12. "Take Me Away"
13. "Sarabande Suite (Aeternae)", based on Handel's original; with vocals by Pursey
14. "Porque Te Vas (Globus Version)" with vocals by Badani, cover of a 1970s Spanish pop song

Haun is in CIRCA:, a new band with Billy Sherwood, Tony Kaye and Jay Schellen—see here for details. Haun, Sherwood and Kaye also combined forces with Bobby Kimball (ex-Toto) in Yoso, but Haun has now left the group to concentrate on his commercial work. On Haun's MySpace page, he has two pieces of music: "Yellows and Blues" and "Trilobite Part 1".

Haun works for Elias Arts—details under Elias. Haun and Jonathan Elias were working with Jimmy's daughter, Lindsey Haun (MySpace page), on her singing career. Haun and Wittman asssited Elias on music for the film "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints", while Haun and Wittman did the music for the film "The Tripper".

Haun recorded some material in the first incarnation of The Key, with Billy Sherwood, around 1992 and Sherwood says the band hope to release that material some day.

Aaron works as a producer, including on the EP The Mondestrunken and forthcoming debut album Chopin Waltz (both on Stiff Records) from F. Lunaire (ex-Kid Harpoon), both recorded at his dad Trevor's Sarm studios. He is also working with Arrows of Love, which includes Kid Harpoon (worked with Trevor Horn) on bass and grew out of the disbanded Hush the Many (Heed the Few), who had also been working with Aaron. Other production work includes an EP for Hungry Man and a forthcoming EP from The Train Chronicles. He also been doing remixing with Goldierocks for acts including The Kooks, Crystal Fighter, Holloways and Ou Est Le Swimming Pool? (worked with Trevor Horn).

Aaron also DJs regularly in London. Various of his own pieces can be heard on his website and MySpace page.

Aaron, Daniel Cross (Record-Play music consultancy) and Jo Maeva set up a record label called TAPE in early 2009, which is administrated through Stiff Records (sister label to dad Trevor's ZTT). Their launch event was in Sep 2009 in London. Aaron is CEO of Mai Plues music publishing company, which is administed by Unforgettable Songs.

Jeczalik has retired from the music business, but on a new Art of Noise compilation—see under Horn.

1. In the Dead of Night (originally by UK)
   
2. Caesar's Palace Blues (originally by UK)
3. Carrying No Cross (originally by UK)
4. The Only Thing She Needs (originally by UK)
5. Red (originally by King Crimson)
6. One More Red Nightmare (originally by King Crimson)
7. Starless (originally by King Crimson)
8. Indiscipline (originally by King Crimson)
9. Lark's Tongues in Aspic Pt. 2 (originally by King Crimson)
10. Vital Transformation (originally by Mahavishnu Orchestra)

an album does need to be an expression of where you are musically, sonically, socially, politically etc. at the time. 'Legacy' was started in 1995 and much of it was conceived then; unfortunately, the sonic choices I would make in 2007 are quite different from the ones I made in 1995. Furthermore, a solo album would be a different animal than a UK album - even if I did compose all of it myself. Songs were written with John in mind, not to mention possible guitar parts for Holdsworth, Fripp and others.

There is also an ownership issue with some of the recordings which will render some performances unusable.

It is clear to me that any usable compositional ideas and performances that, legally, I still have full rights to should be reviewed and probably reworked to reflect twelve years of further technical and musical growth.

UKZ and U-Z play UK material live.

Jordan is still performing.

Langan continues to work with Trevor Horn on various projects—see under Horn. The second Buggles album, Adventures in Modern Recording, which Langan largely engineered, was re-released on CD with multiple bonus tracks: see under Horn.

Lasarenko is creative director (New York) at Elias Associates, leading the company with brothers Scott and Jonathan Elias. He continues to work doing music for films and commercials.

Levin's latest solo album, Stick Man, is out and features more Stick work. Track list: "Welcome", "Gut String Theory", "Speedbump", "Slow Glide", "Shraag T", "Not Just Another Pretty Bass", "El Mercado", "Orange Alert", "In Her Locket", "Rising Waters", "Metro", "Zeros to Disk", "Sticky Fingers", "Rivers of Light", "Chop Shop", "The Gorgon Sisters have a Chat", "Dark Blues". Most of the drumming on the album is by Pat Mastelotto (KTU, King Crimson, The Flower Kings).

Levin is in King Crimson. The band's line-up is Levin, Robert Fripp (guitar), Adrian Belew (guitar, keys, vocals), Pat Mastelotto (percussion) and Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree; drums). The band played a short tour of the eastern US in Aug 2008; the set on the opening night (according to some reports) was: drum duet, "ConstruKtion of Light", "Level Five", "Neurotica", "Three of a Perfect Pair", "Indiscipline", "Frame by Frame", "Dinosaur", "One Time", "Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream", "B'Boom", "Elephant Talk", "Red", drum duet, "Thela Hun Ginjeet", "The Talking Drum", "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part 2", encore: "Sleepless", "VROOM"/"Coda: Marine 475". In Mar 2008, Mastelotto said the band currently plans to focus on US residencies and has no plans for new material. Levin, Mastelotto and Belew joined Eddie Jobson (UKZ, ex-UK, worked with King Crimson) and Eric Slick (Adrian Belew Power Trio) for a 2-song Crimson Project set at a late Aug 2008 festival—see under Jobson. Levin also played with Jeffrey Oryema's group. News of archival Crimson releases is under Bruford. Levin joined U-Z for dates in Nov 2009 with a line-up of Jobson (violin, keys), John Wetton (Asia, ex-King Crimson), Greg Howe (ex-Michael Jackson, U-Z, Victor Wooten; guitar) and  Marco Minnemann (UKZ, ex-Nina Hagen, ex-HBlockx, Mike Keneally; drums): see under Jobson for details.

Levin or Levin and Mastelotto have sporadically been joining the California Guitar Trio live. Levin and Mastelotto are among guests on the Trio's latest album, Echoes, while Levin played live with them on 13 Jun (in Pawling, NY).

In Oct 1998, during sessions planned for the second Liquid Tension Experiment album, guitarist John Petrucci (Dream Theater) was called away due to his wife going into labour. With studio time booked, Levin, Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater; drums) and Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater; keys) jammed together. Although the master tapes for these sessions are missing, the results were also captured on stereo DAT by Portnoy and have been released as Spontaneous Combustion (Magna Carta) by Liquid Trio Experiment. The full Liquid Tension Experiment played 6 US shows in Jun 2008 to celebrate their 10th anniversary. During one of these dates (25 Jun 2008, Chicago), Rudess' keyboard broke down and the remaining three improvised for an hour. An "official bootleg" of this performance was released in 2009 as by Liquid Trio Experiment 2: When the Keyboard Breaks: Live in Chicago (Lazy Tomato Entertainment (Ytsejam Records), LTE001). Tracks: "Universal Mind (When the Keyboard Broke)" (2:21), "The Chicago Blue & Noodle Factory" (7:03), "Fade Away or Keep Going?" (5:03), "The Haunted Keyboard" (9:34), "Close Encounters of the Liquid Kind" (15:13), "Ten Minute Warning" (5:55), "That 'Ol Broken Down Keyboard Blues" (6:34), "Liquid Anthrax" (4:55), "That's All Folks!" (2:12). Now out is a box set (Lazy Tomato Entertainment, LTEBOXSET) to celebrate the tour consisting of the New York and Los Angeles shows as both double CDs and DVDs, When the Keyboard Breaks and, exclusively to the set, a Blu-Ray version of "Live in LA" and a bonus CD consisting of the improv jams from across the tour, plus a 24-page booklet. Live in LA and Live in NYC are both also to be released separately; tracks: Live in NYC, disc 1—"Acid Rain" (9:25), "Kindred Spirits" (8:00), "Biaxident" (7:39), "Freedom of Speech" (9:00), "Improv Jam #1" (8:10), "Another Dimension" (10:51), "State of Grace" (6:20), "Universal Mind" (9:36); disc 2—"When the Water Breaks (16:49), "Improv Jam #2" (11:31), "Rhapsody in Blue" (13:49), "Osmosis" (3:43), "Paradigm Shift" (9:31); Live in LA, disc 1—"Acid Rain" (10:43), "Kindred Spirits" (7:53), "Biaxident" (7:34), "Freedom of Speech" (8:54), "Improv Jam #1" (8:21), "Another Dimension" (10:31), "State of Grace" (6:00), "Universal Mind part 1" (3:36), "Keyboard Solo" (5:19), "Universal Mind part 2" (3:46); disc 2—"When the Water Breaks (17:52), "Improv Jam #2" (13:03), "Rhapsody in Blue" (13:34), "Osmosis" (5:52), "Paradigm Shift" (9:17). Tracks for the box set bonus disc: "NYC (Early Show) Improv Jam #1" (6:54), "NYC (Early Show) Improv Jam #2" (7:41), "NEARfest Improv Jam #1 (3:42), "NEARfest Improv Jam #2" (5:43), "Chicago Improv Jam #1" (7:58), "San Francisco Improv Jam #1" (10:41), "San Francisco Improv Jam #2" (13:17).

Levin has been working with Peter Gabriel. Gabriel has been working towards another solo album called I/O, to include the song "Animal Nation". Levin will presumably also be on this and may also be on further expected Gabriel projects. He toured South America with Gabriel in Mar 2009, and may be touring further in 2010.

Ronan Chris Murphy (worked with Alan White, King Crimson, Bozzio/Levin/Stevens) is working on his debut solo album with Levin, Mastelotto, Bozzio and Mike Keneally (Steve Vai, ex-Frank Zappa, ex-Stanley Snail).

In Feb 2007, Geoff Downes described a prog rock project with himself on keys, Levin, Michael Holmes (IQ), Nick D'Virgilio (Spock's Beard, ex-Genesis), Thomas Lang (ex-John Wetton; drums) and Rob Aubrey (worked with Wetton/Downes; engineer)—see more under Downes. In 2009, Aubrey described a project called Pulse as being close to completion with Levin (bass), Holmes (guitar), D'Virgilio (drums, vocals) and Lang (drums), but did not mention Downes.

The 1993 Spin 1ne 2wo album with Tony Levin, Rupert Hine, Paul Carrack and Phil Palmer has been re-released by Voiceprint.

Levin has done numerous other sessions (in no particular order):

• Dec 2008 concert in honour of Ginger Baker, organised by Zildjian Cymbals, with artists including Ginger Baker (ex-Cream), Jack Bruce (ex-Cream), Simon Phillips (ex-Asia), Keith Carlock, Steve White, Tony Allen, Ray Russell, Steve Balsamo, Gary Husband and comedian Al Murray.
• Cheryl Wheeler's Pointing at the Sun.
• Sara Fimm's White Birds EP.
  
• Amy Hobish's mysteryplay.
• Dave Schulz's Connect, with guests including Daniel Lanois (worked with U2), Mike Porcaro (ex-Toto; bass), Robin Dimaggio (drums) and Randy Cooke (drums).
• Oct 2008 sessions for Kevin Parent's next album.
• Showcases in Nov 2008 in New York City with singer Roman Klun.
• Soma, keyboardist Mark Gleed's project with Levin, Holdsworth and Guy Eckstein (drums), are planning to release their second album, Neverwasneverwillbe, in 2009. The material was originally recorded in the late 1980s.
  
• Bass and Stick on Better Late Than Never by keyboardist Danny Brill.
• Enrico Giaretta's Sulle Ali Della Musica.
• Sessions for Cynthia Dillenbeck (vocals) with Joe Bonadio (drums).
• Core sessions for Trey Anastasio's forthcoming solo album with Anastasio (Phish; guitar, vocals), Marotta (drums) and Ray Paczkowski (Vorcza; keys), plus guest appearances from Jon Fishman (Phish; drums) and Jennifer Hartswick (trumpet, vocals). Mike Gordon (bass) also appears on the album.
• Levin's website lists many further session appearances.

McDonald appears on Julian Colbeck's 1992 Back to Bach, re-released in 2009—details under Colbeck.

Macchia was nominated in the Best Instrumental Arranger category of the Grammys for a piece from his album Landscapes, but lost to Thomas Newman for his work on the "WALL-E" score.

Mancina is doing soundtrack work.

Offord lives in South Carolina and has largely retired from the music business, although he does occasional engineer and production work.

No current info

Porcaro does soundtrack work. He and Michael Sherwood co-wrote "For All Time", a previously unreleased demo for Michael Jackson's Thriller now released on Thriller 25, the 25th anniversary edition of the album. Porcaro but not Sherwood performs on the song. Further details under Michael Sherwood.

Porcaro guests on Ahmin Bhatia's new album Virtuality—see under Patrick Moraz, who also guests.

Preskett writes music for TV, film and adverts, as well as doing session work.

Ryan plays on his father's forthcoming jazz-rock solo project (see here). He also guested on the score to Disney animation "G-Force" by his dad, Trevor (see here for details). Ryan previously did some additional music for Trevor's score to "Hot Rod".

He drums on the new EP from Audra Mae (Billy Sherwood's grandniece)—see under Michael Sherwood below.

Ryan was drumming in Los Angeles band The Outline (MySpace page), with Graham Fink (vocals, guitar), Austen Lee (keys, guitar, sax) and Max St. John (bass). Their debut album was You Smash It, We'll Build Around It (Fearless Records), produced by their co-manager Chris Fudurich (worked with Simple Minds). However, around Apr 2007, Ryan left the band, reportedly in order to go back to school full time.

No current info

Phyllis is retired. Their MySpace page has several songs by the couple's band.

The late Bobby Sherwood's big band charts, thought lost for many years, have been located. Their elder son, Michael, has produced and conducted the music with a 16-piece big band, with Bobby's nephew, trumpeter Carl Saunders. The Bobby Sherwood MySpace page has samples.

Michael Sherwood's has been working in Kite with Ted Jacobs (presumably a new name for their band Ju-Ju). He is also in GLP with Christian Nesmith (son of and worked with Michael Nesmith; guitar) and the two now have a MySpace page as NezWood with multiple songs. Other band members in GLP include Tom Felicetta, Chirstopher "Topher" Allis (Elias Arts; drums) and Steve McCormick. Earlier in 2007, he had four pieces on streaming audio at his MySpace page: "Face of the Sun" with Nesmith and "Pearblossom Highway", "Numbers Game" and "Everybody's Watching" with Ted Jacobs. The site then had "Pearblossom Highway", "Numbers Game" and two new pieces, "Almost Perfect Love" and "The Ship", all credited to Kite. There are now two further unlabelled pieces, "This Blue World" and "6 Days from Sunday". The latter song and another, "The Upside", were used on the TV series Scrubs in 2006. M. Sherwood (piano), Nesmith (guitars) and Allis (drums) are all also in singer Circe Link's band (MySpace page).

M. Sherwood did the score for the film "West of Brooklyn".

Singer/songwriter Audra Mae is Michael and Billy Sherwood's grandniece (and Judy Garland's great grandniece). Her new, 5-song EP features Michael on keyboards and Ryan Rabin (Trevor's son; ex-The Outline) on drums.

Sherwood and Steve Porcaro (Toto, on Union and Open Your Eyes) co-wrote "For All Time", a previously unreleased demo for Michael Jackson's album Thriller. Jackson has now completed and remixed the song and it is now a bonus track on the 25th anniversary edition, Thriller 25 (Legacy Recordings). Thriller 25 contains the original album with various additional tracks and a bonus DVD; it is out worldwide. Porcaro but not Sherwood performs on the song. Over one million copies of Thriller 25 shipped in its first week and it has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. It was the second best-selling album in its release week in the US (166,000 copies), although, as substantially a re-release of Thriller, it was excluded from the main Billboard chart. It was the 37th best-selling album of 2008 in Australia. The album re-entered charts following Jackson's death on 25 Jun 2009.

He guests on the debut album from CIRCA: (with brother Billy, Alan White, Tony Kaye and Jimmy Haun) and has played live with them too—details here. He also appears on a post-Conspiracy album by Billy and Jay Schellen—details here.

He was planning to record an album of his father Bobby's big band music—details under Bobby Sherwood. Michael has also been working freelance and doing music for film, TV and commercials.

In Jun 2006, Jill Sinclair was accidentally hit in the neck with an air rifle pellet while in her garden. As a result, Sinclair has been unresponsive in a coma since.

Sinfield is working on a new solo album, entitled Thread to Heaven, co-produced by Poli Palmer. In a Jan 2008 blog, Jakko M. Jakszyk talked of writing for the album. He may also be working with the David Cross/Andrew Keeling collaboration.

The King Crimson Collectors' Club includes several releases including lyrics from Sinfield. Further details about the Club are under Bruford. Esoteric have re-released a 2CD remastered and expanded version of Sinfield's solo album Still on the Manticore imprint (mantcd21003). this includes the two bonus tracks from the 1994 Stillusion expanded re-release and further early mixes. Tracks: CD1, the album mix—"The Song of the Sea Goat", "Under the Sky", "Will It be You", "Wholefood Boogie", "Still", "Envelopes of Yesterday", "The Piper", "A House of Hopes and Dreams", "The Night People"; CD2, early mixes and bonus tracks—"Hanging Fire" (previously released on Stillusion), "Still (first mix)", "The Song of the Sea Goat", "Under the Sky", "Wholefood Boogie", "Envelopes of Yesterday", "The Piper", "A House of Hopes and Dreams", "The Night People", "Still (second mix)", "Can You Forgive a Fool?"(previously released on Stillusion).

Nikki Squire (vocals) and Nigel McLaren (bass, backing vocals) have re-formed Esquire and are working on some new material in London with Robbie Blunt (ex-Robert Plant; guitar), Lisa LaRue (MySpace page; worked with John Payne, Gilli Smyth, Tommy Zvoncheck; keys) and others. Seven pieces are available as digital downloads from their MySpace page: "Stay Low" (with LaRue and backing vocals by Master Cassian Munro), "Where is the Love", "Ministry of Life", "Friends & Enemies", "She Said" (with Blunt), "It's Over", "Tonight" (with Blunt). Most of there can also be heard as streaming files.

There is also some unreleased Esquire material from over the years which could be released. She was interviewed in Notes from the Edge #232, in which she discussed some other possible forthcoming projects.

Nikki was announed as a guest on Lisa LaRue's PROJECT 2K9, but did not in the end appear. (Other guests did include John Payne (Asia Featuring John Payne, GPS, ex-Asia; vocals).)

Vangelis did the music for the film "El Greco". He has also set up the Vangelis Foundation For Research, Music and Science.

Headspace (MySpace page; YouTube channel) is a new band consisting of Adam Wakeman (keys), Damian Wilson (ex-Rick Wakeman, ex-Jeronimo Road; vocals), Pete Rinaldi (guitar), Lee Pomeroy (Rick Wakeman; bass), Richard Brook (The London Music School, ex-Victoria Beckham; drums). The band first recorded a set of demos (some available to hear at their MySpace page). Their debut 4-track EP, I Am... (HDSPC02), is out now and available to buy online; tracks can also be heard on their MySpace page. Their debut concept album is due late 2010. The band have played several UK/Ireland dates, mainly supporting Ozzy Osbourne (with whom Adam also plays). Their set list in Jun/Jul 2008 was "Never Let Go", "Bodysuit", "Sane Life", "Wasted Apology and Sober".

Adam was reported to be working on a remix album, in a dance/chill out style, of tracks that he has produced.

Adam has a recurring relationship with Daniel Earnshaw's Explore Multimedia label. Explore Multimedia released Live at the Orange, a recording of the last show by Jeronimo Road in 1996, Adam's former band with Fraser Thorneycroft Smith (a.k.a. Fraser T. Smith; Taio Cruz, Tinchy Stryder, James Morrison, Craig David, ex-Rick Wakeman; guitar). The multimedia release comes with CD-ROM extras, including around an hour more of music. The rest of the band were Damian Wilson (vocals), Phil Williams (Faint Signs of Intelligence, Keith Emerson Band, ex-Rick Wakeman; bass), Mark Heaney (ex-Badly Drawn Boy; drums). Jim McDonald and Tony Fernandez (Rick Wakeman) also appear. Tracks: "Hear Them Call", "Who Am I?", "Keep On", "Holding You", "Caught in the Machine", "News to Me", "Promise Me", "Say What You Mean"; "Caught in the Machine" (1996 studio recording), "Starship Trooper" (from Tales from Yesterday). The multimedia section has a band history and information on the band members' whereabouts: music includes "Lean on Me" video (from Adam's Neurasthenia), "Free Ride" (Neurasthenia), "Homegrown" (Damian Wilson), "Something Real (excerpt)" (Fraser T-Smith), "Quince Jam" (Phil Williams), live drum solo (Tony Fernandez, taken from Rick Wakeman and the English Rock Ensemble's Out There tour) plus original backing music by Adam. There is an interactive section where you can mix your own version of "Caught in the Machine" and a video question and answer section with Thorneycroft Smith and Wakeman. Sleeve layout and logo were by brother Oliver. The album is only available through Explore Multimedia or at live shows by the band members.

Adam has also done the score for another Explore Multimedia release: Recollections of Rifleman Harris is an abridged reading of the 1848 memoir from a rifleman with the 95th Rifles in the Napoleonic Wars. The reading is by Jason Salkey (Harris in the "Sharpe" series), with sound effects by The 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. CD-ROM extras consist of a video interview with Salkey, the original first edition text and a video showing the creation of the artwork. He also helped out with post-production on The Home Concert by Thijs van Leer (Focus), again on Explore Multimedia. The album consists of 11 tracks played by van Leer live in his own home, with CD-ROM extras including video of 3 tracks and interview material with van Leer.

Session work has included for the UK #1 (and Ireland #2) "Never Leave You" by Tinchy Stryder feat. Amelle Berrabah; and Frankmusik's "Confusion Girl" (UK #27), both produced by Fraser T. Smith. Adam also played piano on "I Got Soul", the charity single for War Child UK, produced by Smith and featuring Stryder, Frankmusik, Pixie Lott, N-Dubz, VV Brown, the London Community Choir and others (UK #10, Ireland #19).

No current info

Jemma is a songwriter, pianist and vocalist, with a publishing and recording contract. She sings backing vocals and some lead on her father Rick's albums Retro and Retro 2, and on his CD and DVD Amazing Grace—see details under Rick. She also performed with her dad and siblings Adam and Oliver at the 2009 RWCC Xmas concert: see details under Rick.

According to an Aug 2007 interview with Rick, Jemma has her own band. According to a Jun 2008 interview with brother Oliver, she is still at university and "only gigs occasionally".

According to a Jun 2008 interview with brother Oliver, Oscar is at university. He is credited as a camera operator on dad Rick's new Face to Face DVD series. He is raising money for the Lymphoma Association.

Weidner has been working with Trevor Horn as an engineer, mixer and/or programmer on a variety of projects, including Jeff Beck's Emotion & Commotion—see details under Horn.

Jesse assisted Klaus Badelt on the score for the new disaster movie "Poseidon". A score album is out. Jesse works as a ProTools operator for Trevor Rabin.

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