Some good and complex music on that CD it seems. I bet he must feel very honored by that tribute made by his fans. Personally I am no fan of Eddie Jobson's music but he sure is a good violin and keyboardplayer but no fave of mine.

Just got the album. Bill did a great job: the mastering sounds very good. The artists did a great job as well.

Thank you so much for the kind words! After I heard Bill's mastering on "The Muse Awakens," as well as his live sound work for Happy the Man at Orion Studios in Baltimore, I wanted to ask him to master the Eddie Jobson tribute CD. Not only is he a top-flight professional, but I knew he would understand the music. Everyone on the project is highly impressed with his work. His mastering raises the sound quality of the album and binds together the CD's various tracks (produced in studios from 9 countries ranging from Russia to Italy to South Africa).

I'm fortunate to live in the same area as Bill. In the summer of 2005, he hosted an awesome live jam in Baltimore. Not only did he rent the space for us, but he provided all sorts of food and refreshments. It was amazing to jam with him and others including Chris Mack.

Incidentally, I am a huge fan of HtM. I agree with Chris Lamka, the legendary proprietor of the prog record shop "Of Sound Mind" that they are hands-down the best prog group that the United States has ever produced.

Ben P. Stein
Producer and Contributor, "Theme of Appreciation: A Worldwide Tribute to Eddie Jobson"

Ben, nice to see you in yet another forum.

Hi Ben,

Welcome on the forum and thank you very much for the inside story. I now and then visit the Eddie Jobson-forum, but haven't become a member because I don't like the look of the forum. It doesn't read pleasantly, although it isn't as bad as the Global Music news-page. I've become a fan from Eddie when the UK album was released. After that I tried to collect as many albums with him as I could get, although I did keep the quality in mind. These artists/bands have albums with Eddie, which I got in my collection so far:

The Bulgarian Women’s Choir - Angelite, Curved Air, King Crimson, Roxy Music, UK, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, Eddie Jobson(/Zinc), Various Artists (two Private Music-releases) and Jack Rieley/Machiel Botman

It's not as much as I have from Allan Holdsworth, but I guess Allan did a lot more session-work after 1985 than Eddie did.

The tribute-album is indeed a very fine CD, especially because there are so many different styles and views on it, while the sound is much better than I expected. Also nice to see two Dutch bands on it.

steamingears,

Thanks for the kind welcome. That's a good collection of EJ stuff. Eddie has a nice stint on Roger Glover's "The Butterfly Ball" which I recommend as well. Eddie apparently has done a ton of music work for commercials and television, much of it behind the scenes, and hopefully we'll get to hear some more of it when the website is up. For now, there are snippets on Youtube from his work for "Viper" and "Nash Bridges."

I am really glad you like the CD. I kept the guidelines very loose; I simply asked EJ fans to submit their best original music. I too am pleased by the Dutch representation. I have received more orders for the CD from the Netherlands than from anywhere else, including the US. If you have any questions about the CD, please let me know and I'll be glad to try to answer them.

bp, glad to be here. I'm now seeing how how your good name travels far and wide around Internet music circles!

Ben

Ben has posted a review on www.eddiejobson.com/forum/read.php?f=1&i=3963&t=3963 while there's also a translation in that same thread.

Eddie is gonna make his come back in the rock-scene, beginning with anouncing his new band this month...

The Name Of The Band Is:

UKZ

www.ukzband.com

Featuring Trey Gunn, Alex Machacek, Marco Minneman, Aaron Lippert and of course Eddie Jobson