Eddie Jobson

Jobson in August 2009

Edwin Jobson (born May 28, 1955 in Billingham , England ) is a British rock musician as well as television and advertising music composer. He plays keyboard and violin.

Life

Early years

Jobson began playing the 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 for Curved Air .

At Curved Air

This band joined Jobson in 1973, at the same time replacing the violinist Darryl Way and the keyboardist Francis Monkman . With this band Jobson recorded two albums , where he contributed some of his own pieces.

At Roxy Music

Because the sisters of Eddie Jobson and Roxy Music member Bryan Ferry shared an apartment, the next station in Jobson's career came about. First Jobson played on Ferry's solo album These Foolish Things , then he joined Roxy Music as a replacement for Brian Eno and recorded three studio albums with the group ( Stranded , Country Life and Siren ) and the live album Viva! Roxy Music on.

Session musician

He subsequently worked as a sought-after studio and live musician with the Amazing Blondel group and artists such as Dana Gillespie , Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay , Phil Manzanera , Roger Glover , John Entwistle and Frank Zappa . In 1976 he brought out the solo single Yesterday Boulevard / On a Still Night . John Wetton knew Jobson from the Roxy Music tour. He invited him to do some overdubs on the 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 to form a band together. Under the name UK , the band released two studio albums ( UK , Danger Money ) and the live album Night After Night , with the line-up being converted to a trio with Terry Bozzio as drummer after the first album . After the band broke up despite the large audience approval, Jobson worked again as a studio musician.

At Jethro Tull

In 1980 Jobson became keyboardist and violinist with Jethro Tull after the previous line-up had largely been dissolved , to whom he was no stranger, as Roxy Music and UK had appeared as opening acts at earlier Tull concerts. He recorded album A with the band and also completed the subsequent world tour, documented on the DVD Slipstream (bonus supplement to the remastered version of A ). Jobson's playing takes up a lot of space on A , the start of a series of keyboard-dominated Tull albums; In some pieces his solos are on an equal footing with those of Ian Anderson on the flute and those of Martin Barre on the guitar. According to the liner notes , Jobson also contributed compositional material.

Zinc

In 1981 Jobson left Jethro Tull and put together his own band called "Zinc", which brought a single album ( The Green Album ) onto the market.

solo

Trevor Rabin , Chris Squire and Alan White , who were urged by Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegün to write a commercial album, wanted to start a new band called Cinema with Eddie Jobson in 1981. But Jobson, who was in the middle of the recordings for Zinc - The green album , had to cancel first. He was then replaced by Tony Kaye , a former Yes member. After Yes singer Jon Anderson joined the project, the new band was called Yes . When Kaye, who didn't get along well with producer Trevor Horn personally, wanted to quit a short time later, Jobson was brought into the band. He was then a member of Yes for two weeks and can be seen briefly in the video for Owner of a Lonely Heart . Due to legal naming problems, however, another Yes founding member was needed, and Kaye returned. Jobson turned down the offer to share the keyboard work with him because of the less demanding parts, and he finally left the band.

After that Jobson devoted himself to 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 .

Jobson wrote music for commercials and television, including the US television series Nash Bridges . In 2000 he produced the album of the Voices of Life Bulgarian Women Choir , where he contributed three new compositions and also played the violin. Since 2000 he has run his own music / video production company called Globe Music Media Arts .

UKZ

In October 2007, the establishment of a new was progressive rock - supergroup called UKZ announced. Members are Eddie Jobson, former King Crimson bassist Trey Gunn ( Warr Guitar ), Greg Howe , Alex Machacek , Marco Minnemann and singer Aaron Lippert , who was involved in a failed UK reunification in 1999. The group name alludes to both the previous UK and Zinc projects. An album was scheduled for 2008, but did not appear.

Discography

solo

• Zinc: The Green Album - 1983.
• Theme of Secrets - 1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Rees: Minstrels In The Gallery. Wembley 1998, ISBN 0-946719-22-5 , p. 98.
2. ^ Jobson website
3. ↑ Jobson's production company Globe Music Media Arts
4. ↑ UKZ

Web links

• Eddie Jobsons official website (English)