Bill Bruford - UNT (Kazumi Watanabe, The Spice Of Life, 1987)

I think titles are important when it comes to instrumental music, so I’m surprised and sorry I didn’t ask this track’s composer, Japanese guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, what UNT meant, or stood for. I haven’t a clue what was running through his mind when he wrote it or named it, and that’s often helpful in deciding how to play it. I’ve written a little about my time with Kazumi in other video descriptions on this channel (see ‘Lim-Poo’, or a ‘drum solo’ from the Spice of Life tour), so I have little to add on this song from the same tour, other than how young and healthy everyone looks. Spare a thought for those musicians who are not so lucky, the men and women who are not on stage, silenced, invisible, and who would so like to be there. The hazards surrounding musical instrument practice are many and varied. Painful musculo-skeletal issues include overuse injuries and hand and finger problems. Many drummers are particularly concerned with hearing loss and carpal tunnel syndrome, the drummer’s version of