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149-592: Patrick Philippe Moraz (born 24 June 1948) is a Swiss musician, film composer and songwriter, best known for his tenures as keyboardist in the rock bands Yes and the Moody Blues . Born into a musical family, Moraz learned music at a young age and studied at the Lausanne Conservatory . He began a music career in the 1960s as a jazz musician, performing with his quartet and quintet, groups that performed across Europe and won several awards. He formed

298-523: A world music flavour. Afterward he reconvened with Yes for their 1976 North American tour, where the band headlined several large concerts. After the 1976 tour, Yes retreated from UK tax collectors to Montreux , Switzerland, to record their next album, Going for the One (1977). Some of the material had already been worked out by the time of their arrival; this included contributions to "Awaken", " Wonderous Stories " and "Parallels" from Moraz. However, during

447-403: A Duo or Group with Vocal award with 90125 . The band's 1984–1985 tour was the most lucrative in their history and spawned the home video release 9012Live , a concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh with added special effects from Charlex that cost $ 1 million. Issued in 1985, an accompanying live album also appeared that year, 9012Live: The Solos , which earned Yes a nomination for

596-456: A Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1992. Howe described the nomination for a track he had recorded solo at home as "pure justice", following the difficulties in making the album. Union sold approximately 1.5 million copies worldwide, and peaked at number 7 in the UK and number 15 in the U.S. charts. Two singles from the album were released. " Lift Me Up " topped

745-606: A Lonely Heart" topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for four weeks and went on to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the only single from Yes to do so, for two weeks in January 1984. Kaye's short-term replacement on keyboards, Eddie Jobson , appeared briefly in the original video but was edited out as much as possible once Kaye had been persuaded to return to

894-579: A Word (1970). A change of direction later in 1970 led to a series of successful progressive rock albums, with four consecutive U.S. platinum or multi-platinum sellers in The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close to the Edge (1972) and the live album Yessongs (1973). Further albums, Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973), Relayer (1974), Going for the One (1977) and Tormato (1978), were also commercially successful. Yes toured as

1043-424: A Word , accompanied by a 20-piece youth orchestra. Banks left the group on 18 April 1970, just three months before the album's release. Having expressed dissatisfaction with the idea of recording with an orchestra as well as the sacking of Flynn earlier in the year, Banks later indicated that he was fired by Anderson and Squire, and that Kaye and Bruford had no prior knowledge that it would be happening. Similar to

1192-775: A band interview. Moraz lives in Florida with his second wife, Phyllis, and spends some time in his native Switzerland. He has one son, David, and a daughter, Rana, with first wife Diane. Singles Studio albums Live albums Compilation albums DVD Compilation albums Yes (band) Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by lead singer Jon Anderson , bassist Chris Squire , guitarist Peter Banks , keyboardist Tony Kaye , and drummer Bill Bruford . The band has undergone numerous lineup changes throughout their history, during which 20 musicians have been full-time members. Since February 2023,

1341-547: A benefit concert at the request of poet José Ramos-Horta . By 2001, Moraz had continued with several projects, including researching and preparing film scripts, including one for a potential film adaptation of The Story of I . He released his third piano album, the classically influenced ESP (2003), short for "Etudes, Sonatas and Preludes". In 2012, he issued a compilation of tracks from the three piano albums titled PianissiMoraz (2012). In 2011, Moraz guested on an album by Panorama Syndicate entitled Skyline , playing piano on

1490-548: A call from Lee Jackson , guitarist and singer of Jackson Heights , asking him if he was interested in joining Jackson Heights. Moraz had jammed with Jackson's previous band, The Nice , in 1969 when they played in Switzerland. Moraz refused, and counter-offered that they form a new band with former Nice member Brian Davison on drums. The band, Refugee , signed with Charisma Records and released Refugee (1974), written and arranged by Moraz and Jackson. The group developed

1639-533: A career in music production, with White and Squire next to depart. Left as the sole remaining members, Downes and Howe opted not to continue with the group and went their own separate ways in December 1980. Yesshows , a live album recorded during 1976 to 1978, mixed in mid-1979 and originally intended for release in late 1979, was released in November 1980, peaking at number 22 in the UK charts and number 43 in

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1788-401: A change of meter . Most time signatures are either simple (the note values are grouped in pairs, like 4 , 4 , and 4 ), or compound (grouped in threes, like 8 , 8 , and 8 ). Less common signatures indicate complex , mixed , additive , and irrational meters . Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above

1937-566: A chef in Switzerland in one of his kitchens that he managed, with the hope of using the skill to work in England. Moraz cooked at a school for a £2.88 salary (equivalent to £100 in 2024)., calling it "one of the hardest jobs I ever had". He played the piano in a local pub and tea room for more money. However, he was kicked out of the Musicians' Union because he took up employment as a bar pianist with an incorrect type of work visa. The director of

2086-723: A convention held by the Audio Engineering Society in Los Angeles, where Herbie Hancock taught him vocoder , and agreed to represent Aphex Systems in Brazil. On his way back to Brazil, Moraz stopped in Miami as he had some free time. At the hotel, he received a call asking him to join the Moody Blues after Mike Pinder left the band. Moraz proceeded to sing "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" on

2235-419: A convention that some composers follow (e.g., Olivier Messiaen , in his La Nativité du Seigneur and Quatuor pour la fin du temps ) is to simply omit the time signature. Charles Ives 's Concord Sonata has measure bars for select passages, but the majority of the work is unbarred. Some pieces have no time signature, as there is no discernible meter. This is sometimes known as free time . Sometimes one

2384-478: A discernibly regular pulse. If two time signatures alternate repeatedly, sometimes the two signatures are placed together at the beginning of the piece or section, as shown below: To indicate more complex patterns of stresses, such as additive rhythms , more complex time signatures can be used. Additive meters have a pattern of beats that subdivide into smaller, irregular groups. Such meters are sometimes called imperfect , in contrast to perfect meters , in which

2533-433: A follow-up to Big Generator and had been shopping around for a new singer, auditioning Roger Hodgson of Supertramp , Steve Walsh of Kansas , Robbie Nevil of " C'est la Vie " fame, and Billy Sherwood of World Trade . Walsh only spent one day with them, but Sherwood and the band worked well enough together and continued with writing sessions. Arista suggested that the "Yes-West" group, with Anderson on vocals, record

2682-557: A footnote within Paramahansa Yogananda 's book Autobiography of a Yogi . The album became the first LP in the UK to ship gold before the record arrived at retailers. It went on to top the UK charts for two weeks while reaching number 6 in the U.S., and became the band's fourth consecutive gold album. Wakeman was not pleased with the record and is critical of much of its material. He felt sections were "bled to death" and contained too much musical padding. Wakeman left

2831-460: A heavier, harder sound than the material Yes recorded with Anderson and Wakeman in 1979, opening with the lengthy hard rocker " Machine Messiah ". The album received substantial radio airplay in the late summer–fall of 1980, and peaked at number 2 in the UK and number 18 in the U.S., though it was the first Yes album to not be certified Gold by the RIAA since 1971. Their 1980 tour of North America and

2980-685: A jazz soloist at a music festival earned him a prize of a collection of albums and some lessons with French jazz soloist Stéphane Grappelli who taught him "all I needed to know about jazz and rock". Moraz also spent time performing in several countries in Africa. In November 1964, Moraz left Switzerland for England, a place he always wanted to visit and perform. Not knowing the English language, he arrived in Bournemouth where he stayed for six months. Prior to his travels, Moraz's father offered him work as

3129-429: A lot of material together and became close friends. Yes performed "Walls" on Late Show with David Letterman on 20 June 1994. The 1994 tour (for which the band included side man Billy Sherwood on additional guitar and keyboards) used a sound system developed by Rabin named Concertsonics which allowed the audience located in certain seating areas to tune portable FM radios to a specific frequency, so they could hear

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3278-458: A major rock act that earned the band a reputation for their elaborate stage sets, light displays, and album covers designed by Roger Dean . The success of " Roundabout ", the single from Fragile , cemented their popularity across the decade and beyond. The early 1970s saw lasting lineup changes, with Banks, Kaye, and Bruford being replaced by Howe, Rick Wakeman , and Alan White . In 1979, growing musical differences led Anderson and Wakeman to leave

3427-413: A meter, just noted with eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, or whole notes – these conventionally imply different performance and different tempi. Conventionally, larger numbers in the bottom correspond to faster tempi and smaller numbers correspond to slower tempi. This convention is known as tempo giusto , and means that the tempo of each note remains in a narrower, "normal" range. For illustration,

3576-685: A more specific description is any meter which combines both simple and compound beats. Irregular meters are common in some non-Western music, and in ancient Greek music such as the Delphic Hymns to Apollo, but the corresponding time signatures rarely appeared in formal written Western music until the 19th century. Early anomalous examples appeared in Spain between 1516 and 1520, plus a small section in Handel's opera Orlando (1733). The third movement of Frédéric Chopin 's Piano Sonata No. 1 (1828)

3725-591: A more structurally ambitious approach taken from the band's progressive blueprint, with the fifteen-minute track " Endless Dream ". The album reached number 20 in the UK and number 33 in the U.S. The track " The Calling " reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and " Walls ", which Rabin had written with former Supertramp songwriter and co-founder Roger Hodgson , peaked at number 24. It also became Yes's second-last-charting single. Rabin and Hodgson wrote

3874-585: A new progressive rock band, Mainhorse . He wished for a drummer who could play like John Bonham , Buddy Rich , odd time signatures and the blues, and tried out "like 250 drummers" in the process. He settled with a line-up of Jean Ristori on vocals and bass, Bryson Graham on drums, and Peter Lockett on vocals and guitar. They signed with Polydor Records and recorded their only studio album, Mainhorse (1971), at De Lane Lea Studios , later purchased by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple in Kingsway , London. The album

4023-492: A nomination for a second Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1988, and was also certified platinum (with 1 million-plus in sales) by the RIAA. The single " Love Will Find a Way " topped the Mainstream Rock chart, while " Rhythm of Love " reached number 2 and " Shoot High Aim Low " number 11. The 1987–1988 tour ended with an appearance at Madison Square Garden on 14 May 1988 as part of

4172-507: A piece may not be best described as being in one meter, but rather as having a switching mixed meter. In this case, the time signatures are an aid to the performers and not necessarily an indication of meter. The Promenade from Modest Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) is a good example. The opening measures are shown below: Igor Stravinsky 's The Rite of Spring (1913) is famous for its "savage" rhythms. Five measures from "Sacrificial Dance" are shown below: In such cases,

4321-536: A quarter note might correspond to 60–120 bpm, a half note to 30–60 bpm, a whole note to 15–30 bpm, and an eighth note to 120–240 bpm; these are not strict, but show an example of "normal" ranges. This convention dates to the Baroque era, when tempo changes were indicated by changing time signature during the piece, rather than by using a single time signature and changing tempo marking. For example, while 8 , 4 , 2 , and 1 have

4470-433: A record producer and even briefly considered being a member of Asia . The three teamed up in a new band called Cinema , for which Squire also recruited the original Yes keyboard player Tony Kaye. Later in 1982, Cinema entered the studio to record their debut album. Although Rabin and Squire initially shared lead vocals for the project, Trevor Horn was briefly brought into Cinema as a potential singer, but soon opted to become

4619-424: A recurring pulse, or beat , usually in the range of 60–140 beats per minute. Depending on the tempo of the music, this beat may correspond to the note value specified by the time signature, or to a grouping of such note values. Most commonly, in simple time signatures, the beat is the same as the note value of the signature, but in compound signatures, the beat is usually a dotted note value corresponding to three of

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4768-501: A rented farmhouse in Devon to write and rehearse new songs for their following album. Howe established himself as an integral part of the group's sound with his Gibson ES-175 and variety of acoustic guitars. With producer and engineer Eddy Offord , recording sessions lasted as long as 12 hours with each track being assembled from small sections at a time, which were pieced together to form a complete track. The band would then learn to play

4917-489: A reunited band with a history and expectations, rather than help launch a new group. However, with four of the five members having been members of Yes (with three of them being original members, including the distinctive lead singer) it suggested that the name change was sound commercial strategy. The new album marked a significant change in style as the revived Yes had adopted more of a pop rock sound with few moments that recalled their progressive rock past. This incarnation of

5066-479: A roller skating accident. He recalled, "I was told I could never play classical music again". Following a course of therapy and a considerable amount of practice with his left hand playing, Moraz was able to regain his technique, becoming ambidextrous in the process. Initially, Moraz wished to be an anthropologist and learned to speak Greek and Latin . Instead he chose to pursue music and studied in Lausanne at

5215-475: A second Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for Squire's solo track, a rendition of " Amazing Grace ". Yes began recording for their twelfth album, Big Generator , in 1985, initially with Trevor Horn returning as producer. The sessions underwent many starts and stops due to the use of multiple recording locations in Italy, London and Los Angeles, with interpersonal problems leading to Horn leaving

5364-458: A second hiatus, Yes once again reformed in 2009, adding Trevor Horn and Downes (both having appeared on Drama ) and later, Davison as lead singer. Squire died in 2015, and White in 2022, leaving Howe as the only remaining member from the 1970s era. Former members Anderson, Rabin, and Wakeman collaborated from 2016 to 2018, but did not release a studio album. Yes's latest album, Mirror to the Sky ,

5513-496: A serious band dispute over finance saw Anderson leave Yes, with a dispirited Wakeman departing at around the same time. In 1980, pop duo The Buggles (singer Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes ) secured the services of Brian Lane , who had managed Yes since 1970, as their manager. The Buggles were best known for their 1979 hit single " Video Killed the Radio Star " from their album The Age of Plastic . At this point,

5662-413: A simple time-signature with triplets translates into a compound meter. The choice of time signature in these cases is largely a matter of tradition. Particular time signatures are traditionally associated with different music styles—it would seem strange to notate a conventional rock song in 8 or 2 , rather than 4 . In the examples below, bold denotes

5811-490: A slower, compound time. However, there are two different-length beats in this resulting compound time, a one half-again longer than the short beat (or conversely, the short beat is 2 ⁄ 3 the value of the long). This type of meter is called aksak (the Turkish word for "limping"), impeded , jolting , or shaking , and is described as an irregular bichronic rhythm . A certain amount of confusion for Western musicians

5960-577: A tight sound by practising for at least eight hours each day. Refugee supported the album with a tour. Upon his arrival from Geneva working on a film score for Gerard Depardieu , Moraz was asked to join Yes , following the departure of Rick Wakeman in May 1974. The band had begun work on Relayer (1974), their seventh album, in Virginia Water , Surrey, and sought potential replacements. Moraz had seen

6109-503: A while." For his part, Rabin felt that he had achieved his highest ambitions with Talk and lamented its disappointing reception, feeling that this was due to the fact that it "just wasn't what people wanted to hear at the time." Having remarked at the conclusion of the tour "I think I'm done", Rabin quit the band and returned to Los Angeles, where he shifted his focus to composing for films. Kaye also left Yes to pursue other projects. In November 1995, Anderson, Squire and White resurrected

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6258-436: A year and a half, and prepared material for his third album. He wanted to title the album "Primitivization", but the record company chose to release it as Patrick Moraz (1978). During his time in Brazil, Moraz joined a Brazilian rock band, Vimana , with Lobão and Lulu Santos and Ritchie . He also recorded the keyboards in one of the most iconic songs of Brazilian music, "Avohai" by Zé Ramalho . In May 1978, Moraz visited

6407-459: Is 2, 3, or 4, sometimes described as duple meter , triple meter , and quadruple meter respectively. In compound meter , the note values specified by the bottom number are grouped into threes, and the upper number is a multiple of 3, such as 6, 9, or 12. The lower number is most commonly an 8 (an eighth-note or quaver): as in 8 or 8 . Other upper numbers correspond to irregular meters . Musical passages commonly feature

6556-440: Is a fragmented masterpiece, assembled with loving care and long hours in the studio. Brilliant in patches, but often taking far too long to make its various points, and curiously lacking in warmth or personal expression ..."Ritual" is a dance of celebration and brings the first enjoyable moments, where Alan's driving drums have something to grip on to and the lyrics of la la la speak volumes. But even this cannot last long and cohesion

6705-470: Is an early, but by no means the earliest, example of 4 time in solo piano music. Anton Reicha 's Fugue No. 20 from his Thirty-six Fugues , published in 1803, is also for piano and is in 8 . The waltz -like second movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony (shown below), often described as a "limping waltz", is a notable example of 4 time in orchestral music. Examples from 20th-century classical music include: In

6854-539: Is felt as two beats, each being a dotted quarter note (crotchet), and each containing subdivisions of three eighth notes (quavers). It is felt as The table below shows the characteristics of the most frequently used time signatures. (quadruple) (duple) (duple) (triple) (triple) (duple) (triple) (quadruple) While changing the bottom number and keeping the top number fixed only formally changes notation, without changing meaning – 8 , 4 , 2 , and 1 are all three beats to

7003-420: Is inevitable, since a measure they would likely regard as 16 , for example, is a three-beat measure in aksak , with one long and two short beats (with subdivisions of 2+2+3 , 2+3+2 , or 3+2+2 ). Folk music may make use of metric time bends, so that the proportions of the performed metric beat time lengths differ from the exact proportions indicated by the metric. Depending on playing style of

7152-454: Is lost once more to the gods of drab self indulgence. — Melody Maker review of Tales from Topographic Oceans , 1973 Tales from Topographic Oceans was the band's sixth studio album, released on 7 December 1973. It marked a change in their fortunes and polarised fans and critics alike. The double vinyl set was based on Anderson's interpretation of the Shastric scriptures from

7301-461: Is provided (usually 4 ) so that the performer finds the piece easier to read, and simply has "free time" written as a direction. Sometimes the word FREE is written downwards on the staff to indicate the piece is in free time. Erik Satie wrote many compositions that are ostensibly in free time but actually follow an unstated and unchanging simple time signature. Later composers used this device more effectively, writing music almost devoid of

7450-466: Is written in 8 , in which the beats are likewise subdivided into 3+2+3 to reflect Basque dance rhythms. Romanian musicologist Constantin Brăiloiu had a special interest in compound time signatures, developed while studying the traditional music of certain regions in his country. While investigating the origins of such unusual meters, he learned that they were even more characteristic of

7599-412: The 1997/1998 Open Your Eyes tour , Yes hired Russian keyboard player Igor Khoroshev , who had played on some of the album tracks. Significantly, the tour setlist featured only a few pieces from the new album, and mostly concentrated on earlier material. Anderson and Howe, who had been less involved with the writing and production on Open Your Eyes than they'd wished, would express dissatisfaction about

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7748-598: The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. In February 1972, Yes recorded a cover version of " America " by Paul Simon and released it in July. The single reached number 46 on the U.S. singles chart. The track subsequently appeared on The New Age of Atlantic , a 1972 compilation album of several bands signed to Atlantic Records, and again in the 1975 compilation Yesterdays . Released in September 1972, Close to

7897-787: The Jon and Vangelis project) at a Los Angeles party and, encouraged by Atlantic Records vice president Phil Carson , played Anderson the Cinema demo tracks. Anderson was then invited into the project as lead singer and joined in April 1983 during the last few weeks of the sessions, having comparatively little creative input beyond adding his lead vocals and re-writing some lyrics. At the suggestion of Carson and other Atlantic executives, Cinema then changed their name to Yes in June 1983. Rabin initially objected to this, as he now found that he had inadvertently joined

8046-864: The Lausanne Conservatory , where he studied with Clara Haskil and, while in Paris, Nadia Boulanger . At sixteen, Moraz became the youngest person to receive the Best Soloist award at the Zürich jazz festival. Moraz went on to win awards at the festival, as a solo artist or in his jazz groups, for five consecutive years. In 1964, Moraz spent his summer in Cadaqués , Spain as a scuba diving instructor and spent time with Salvador Dalí at his property in Portlligat where he organised and performed at several gatherings for his guests. At seventeen, Moraz's playing as

8195-607: The Mellotron and the Minimoog synthesizer, preferring to stick exclusively to piano and Hammond organ , led to the keyboardist being fired from the band in the summer of 1971. Anderson recalled in a 2019 interview: "Steve and Chris came over and said, 'Look, Tony Kaye... great guy.' But, you know, we'd just seen Rick Wakeman about a month earlier. And I said, 'There's that Rick Wakeman guy,' and we've got to get on with life and move on, you know, rather than keep going on, set in

8344-660: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . In late 1967, bassist Chris Squire and guitarist Peter Banks , both formerly of the Syn , joined the psychedelic rock band Mabel Greer's Toyshop , which had formed in 1966 by Clive Bayley and Robert Hagger. They played at the Marquee Club in Soho , London where Jack Barrie, owner of the nearby La Chasse club, saw them perform. "There was nothing outstanding about them", he recalled, "the musicianship

8493-598: The bar is first divided into equal units. For example, the time signature 8 means that there are 8 quaver beats in the bar, divided as the first of a group of three eighth notes (quavers) that are stressed, then the first of a group of two, then first of a group of three again. The stress pattern is usually counted as This kind of time signature is commonly used to notate folk and non-Western types of music. In classical music, Béla Bartók and Olivier Messiaen have used such time signatures in their works. The first movement of Maurice Ravel 's Piano Trio in A Minor

8642-611: The "classic" 1970s lineup of Yes by inviting Wakeman and Howe back to the band, recording two new lengthy tracks called "Be the One" and "That, That Is". In March 1996 Yes performed three live shows at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo , California which were recorded and released, along with the new studio tracks, that October on CMC International Records as the Keys to Ascension album, which peaked at number 48 in

8791-593: The "classic" Yes, although from the start the project had included bass player Tony Levin , whom Bruford had worked with in King Crimson. The project, rather than taking over or otherwise using the Yes name, was called Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (ABWH). Their eponymous album , released in June 1989, featured "Brother of Mine", which became an MTV hit and went gold in the United States. It later emerged that

8940-495: The ... tour of 1976 ... I was entitled to a 20% cut from what the band was getting." In 2014, Chris Squire would suggest that a lack of a musical bond between Moraz and Steve Howe was the main artistic reason for Moraz and Yes parting company. Moraz continued with his solo career and Charisma released his second album, Out in the Sun (1977), which he wanted to sound "completely different and more liberated". He then moved to Brazil for

9089-593: The Beatles , The 5th Dimension and Traffic . On 16 September, Yes performed at Blaise's club in London as a substitute for Sly and the Family Stone , who had failed to turn up. They were well received by the audience, including the host Roy Flynn , who became the band's manager that night. That month, Bruford decided to quit performing to study at the University of Leeds . His replacement, Tony O'Reilly of

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9238-690: The Brazilian ballet, he became interested in percussion and travelled to Colombia , Bolivia , Chile and Argentina for inspiration, and arrived in Brazil where he gathered "a very, very strong unit of 16 percussionists" to play on his album. Moraz invited synthesizer inventor Bob Moog to contribute sounds on the album; Moog accepted the task, and worked with him for several weeks. During this time Moraz also played on Steve Howe 's album Beginnings (1975) and Chris Squire 's album Fish Out of Water (1975). Moraz travelled to Brazil and incorporated Brazilian rhythms and musicians on The Story of I , giving it

9387-424: The Edge , the band's fifth album, was their most ambitious work so far. At 19 minutes, the title track took up an entire side on the vinyl record and combined elements of classical music, psychedelic rock, pop and jazz. The album reached number 3 in the U.S. and number 4 on the UK charts. " And You and I " was released as a single that peaked at number 42 in the U.S. The growing critical and commercial success of

9536-605: The Edge voyage in February 2017. Moraz reunited with Yes in July 2018. As part of Yes' 50th Anniversary tour, Moraz performed with Yes at two shows in Philadelphia, July 20 and 21. At each show, Moraz played keys during the band's performance of "Soon". Moraz also appeared during the Yes FanFest before the July 21 show, at first performing a 70-minute solo piano show and then appearing on stage with Yes and taking part in

9685-653: The Fox ", a Christmas single with Squire on vocals which received radio airplay through the 1980s and early 1990s during the Christmas periods. A second Yes compilation album, Classic Yes , was released in November 1981. At the beginning of 1982, Phil Carson of Atlantic Records introduced Squire and White to guitarist and singer Trevor Rabin , who had initially made his name with the South African supergroup Rabbitt , subsequently releasing three solo albums, working as

9834-580: The Koobas , struggled to perform with the rest of the group on stage and former Warriors and future King Crimson drummer Ian Wallace subbed for one gig on 5 November 1968. After Bruford was refused a year's sabbatical leave from Leeds, Anderson and Squire convinced him to return for Yes's supporting slot for Cream's farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 26 November. After seeing an early King Crimson gig in 1969, Yes realised that there

9983-546: The Mainstream Rock charts in May 1991 for six weeks, while " Saving My Heart " peaked at number 9. Almost the entire band have openly stated their dislike of Union . Bruford has disowned the album entirely, and Wakeman was reportedly unable to recognise any of his keyboard work in the final edit and threw his copy of the album out of his limousine. He has since referred to the album as "Onion" because it makes him cry when he thinks about it. Union co-producer Jonathan Elias later stated publicly in an interview that Anderson, as

10132-423: The One topped the UK album charts for two weeks and reached number 8 in the U.S. " Wonderous Stories " and "Going for the One" were released as singles in the UK and reached numbers 7 and 25, respectively. Although the album's cover was designed by Hipgnosis , it still features their Roger Dean "bubble" logotype . The band's 1977 tour spanned across six months. Tormato was released in September 1978 at

10281-556: The UK and number 99 in the U.S. A same-titled live video of the shows was also released that year. Yes continued to record new tracks in the studio, drawing some material written around the time of the XYZ project. At one point the new songs were to be released as a studio album, but commercial considerations meant that the new tracks were eventually packaged with the remainder of the 1996 San Luis Obispo shows in November 1997 on Keys to Ascension 2 . The record managed to reach number 62 in

10430-476: The UK received a mixed reaction from audiences. They were well received in the United States and were awarded with a commemorative certificate after they performed a record 16 consecutive sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden since 1974. After the Drama tour, Yes reconvened in England to decide the band's next step, beginning by dismissing Lane as their manager. Horn was also dismissed, and went on to pursue

10579-545: The UK, but failed to chart in the U.S. Disgruntled at the way a potential studio album had been sacrificed in favour of the Keys to Ascension releases (as well as the way in which a Yes tour was being arranged without his input or agreement), Wakeman left the group again. (The studio material from both albums would eventually be compiled and re-released without the live tracks onto a single CD, 2001's Keystudio .) With Yes in disarray again, Squire turned to Billy Sherwood (by now

10728-543: The US. An announcement came from the group's management in March 1981 confirming that Yes no longer existed. Downes and Howe soon reunited to form Asia with former King Crimson bassist and vocalist John Wetton , and drummer Carl Palmer from Emerson, Lake & Palmer . Squire and White continued to work together, initially recording sessions with Jimmy Page for a proposed band called XYZ (short for "ex-Yes-and-Zeppelin") in

10877-620: The Western popular music tradition, unusual time signatures occur as well, with progressive rock in particular making frequent use of them. The use of shifting meters in The Beatles ' " Strawberry Fields Forever " and the use of quintuple meter in their " Within You, Without You " are well-known examples, as is Radiohead 's " Paranoid Android " (includes 8 ). Paul Desmond 's jazz composition " Take Five ", in 4 time,

11026-534: The album failed to break into the UK album charts, Rolling Stone critic Lester Bangs complimented the album's "sense of style, taste and subtlety". Melody Maker columnist Tony Wilson chose Yes and Led Zeppelin as the two bands "most likely to succeed". Following a tour of Scandinavia with Faces , Yes performed a solo concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 21 March 1970. The second half consisted of excerpts from their second album Time and

11175-412: The album later. Time signature In a music score the time signature appears as two stacked numerals, such as 4 (spoken as four–four time ), or a time symbol, such as [REDACTED] (spoken as common time ). It immediately follows the key signature (or if there is no key signature, the clef symbol). A mid-score time signature, usually immediately following a barline , indicates

11324-598: The album. After his successful audition, Moraz learned their repertoire across seven albums for the Relayer tour, which began in November 1974. When the tour ended in August 1975, Yes took an extended break so each member could produce a solo album. Charisma Records released Moraz's first album as a solo artist, which, due to its title consisting of a symbol which does not appear on standard keyboards, has since become commonly known as The Story of I (1976). Since working with

11473-504: The associate producer, knew of the session musicians' involvement. He added that he and Anderson had even initiated their contributions, because hostility between some of the band members at the time was preventing work from being accomplished. The 1991–1992 Union tour united all eight members on a revolving circular stage. Following the tour's conclusion in 1992, Bruford chose not to remain involved with Yes and returned to his jazz project Earthworks . Howe also ceased his involvement with

11622-521: The backgrounds. In late 1976, the band travelled to Switzerland and started recording for their album Going for the One at Mountain Studios , Montreux . It was then that Anderson sent early versions of "Going for the One" and " Wonderous Stories " to Wakeman, who felt he could contribute to such material better than the band's past releases. Moraz was let go, after Wakeman was booked on a session musician basis. Upon its release in July 1977, Going for

11771-798: The band after the 1973–1974 tour ; his solo album Journey to the Centre of the Earth topped the UK charts in May 1974. The tour included five consecutive sold-out shows at the Rainbow Theatre, the first time a rock band achieved this. Several musicians were approached to replace Wakeman, including Vangelis Papathanassiou , Eddie Jobson of Roxy Music and former Atlantis/Cat Stevens keyboardist Jean Roussel . Howe says he also asked Keith Emerson , who did not want to leave Emerson, Lake & Palmer . Yes ultimately chose Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz of Refugee , who arrived in August 1974 during

11920-451: The band at this time. In August 1991, while the Union tour was underway, Atlantic released Yesyears , a four-CD box set anthology. Two accompanying home videos, Yesyears and Greatest Video Hits , were also released during 1991. In 1993, the album Symphonic Music of Yes was released, featuring orchestrated Yes tracks arranged by Dee Palmer . Howe, Bruford and Anderson perform on

12069-451: The band has consisted of guitarist Steve Howe , keyboardist Geoff Downes , bassist Billy Sherwood , singer Jon Davison , and drummer Jay Schellen . Yes have explored several musical styles over the years and are most notably regarded as progressive rock pioneers. Yes began performing original songs and rearranged covers of rock, pop, blues and jazz songs, as showcased on their self-titled debut album (1969), and its follow-up, Time and

12218-479: The band has sometimes been informally referred to as "Yes-West", reflecting the band's new base in Los Angeles rather than London. Yes released their comeback album 90125 (named after its catalogue serial number on Atco Records ) in November 1983. It became their biggest-selling album, certified by the RIAA at triple-platinum (3 million copies) in sales in the U.S., and introduced the band to younger fans. "Owner of

12367-544: The band itself. Victory Music approached Rabin with a proposal to produce an album solely with the 90125 lineup. Rabin initially countered by requesting that Wakeman also be included. Rabin began assembling the album at his home, using the then-pioneering concept of a digital home studio, and used material written by himself and Anderson. The new album was well into production in 1993, but Wakeman's involvement had finally been cancelled, as his refusal to leave his long-serving management created insuperable legal problems. Talk

12516-478: The band perform during their tour of Switzerland in 1969. After a try-out with Greek musician Vangelis , which proved unsuccessful following musical union issues and his unwillingness to travel, music reporter Chris Welch suggested to the band's manager, Brian Lane , that they ask Moraz. Though he regretted splitting with his Refugee bandmates, Moraz accepted the position as it was an opportunity that he thought would benefit his career, though he once said, "I felt it

12665-455: The band released a solo album. Their subsequent 1976 tour of North America with Peter Frampton featured some of the band's most-attended shows. The show of 12 June, also supported by Gary Wright and Pousette-Dart Band at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, attracted over 100,000 people. Roger Dean's brother Martyn was the main designer behind the tour's "Crab Nebula" stage set, while Roger and fabric designer Felicity Youette provided

12814-552: The band was not enough to retain Bruford, who left Yes in the summer of 1972, before the album's release, to join King Crimson . The band considered several possible replacements, including Aynsley Dunbar (who was playing with Frank Zappa at the time), and decided on former Plastic Ono Band drummer Alan White , a friend of Anderson and Offord who had once sat in with the band weeks before Bruford's departure. White learned

12963-479: The band's biggest hit, reaching No. 1 in the US. This was followed by The Present (1983), The Other Side of Life (1986), and Sur la Mer (1988). During his tenure with the Moody Blues, Moraz completed several solo projects. He toured with his group from Brazil, recorded with Chick Corea , and released two albums with drummer Bill Bruford as Moraz-Bruford. The two toured worldwide between 1983 and 1985. In May 1986, he worked on some "temporary cues" and "not

13112-417: The band's engineer) for help. Both men had been working on a side project called Conspiracy and reworked existing demos and recordings from there to turn them into Yes songs, and also worked on new material with Anderson and White. (Howe's involvement at this stage was minimal, mainly taking place towards the end of the sessions.) Sherwood's integral involvement with the writing, production, and performance of

13261-468: The band's producer instead. Horn worked well with the band. However, his clashes with Tony Kaye (complicated by the fact that Rabin was playing most of the keyboards during the recording sessions) led to Kaye's departure during the recording, though some of his playing was kept on the final album and he had returned by the time it was released. Meanwhile, Squire encountered Jon Anderson (who, since leaving Yes, had released two solo albums and had success with

13410-552: The band's repertoire in three days before embarking on their 1972–1973 tour . By this point, Yes were beginning to enjoy worldwide commercial and critical success. Their early touring with White was featured on Yessongs , a triple live album released in May 1973 that documented shows from 1972. The album reached number 7 in the UK and number 12 in the U.S. A concert film of the same name premiered in 1975 that documented their shows at London's Rainbow Theatre in December 1972, with added psychedelic visual images and effects. It

13559-420: The band. In 1984, two further singles from the album " Leave It " and " It Can Happen " reached number 24 and 57, respectively. Yes also earned their only Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1985 for the two-minute track " Cinema ". They were also nominated for an award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals with "Owner of a Lonely Heart", and a Best Rock Performance by

13708-489: The characteristic aksak meter of the Turkish karşılama dance. However, such time signatures are only unusual in most Western music. Traditional music of the Balkans uses such meters extensively. Bulgarian dances , for example, include forms with 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 22, 25 and other numbers of beats per measure. These rhythms are notated as additive rhythms based on simple units, usually 2, 3 and 4 beats, though

13857-599: The classically trained organist and pianist Tony Kaye , of Johnny Taylor's Star Combo and the Federals, became the keyboardist. This lineup rehearsed in the basement of The Lucky Horseshoe cafe on Shaftesbury Avenue between 10 June and 9 July 1968. Meanwhile, Banks had left Mabel Greer's Toyshop to join Neat Change, but he was dismissed by this group on 14 July 1968 and was finally recalled by Squire, replacing Bayley as guitarist. The last gig by Mabel Greer's Toyshop

14006-487: The concert with headphones. In early 1995, following the tour, disagreements and dissatisfactions forced another change in the band. 1990s Yes manager Jon Brewer has stated that Squire had not appreciated the Talk production process: "(he) didn't like that. He didn't think it was what Yes was all about; he was very much against a computerised, digital sound at that time. So Trevor and Chris moved away from one another for quite

14155-487: The departure of Anderson and Wakeman had been kept secret from everyone outside the Yes inner circle. Seeing an option of continuing the band with new creative input and expertise, Squire revealed the situation to Horn and Downes and suggested that they join Yes as full-time members. Horn and Downes accepted the invitation and the reconfigured band recorded the Drama album, which was released in August 1980. The record displayed

14304-479: The differing Yes styles of the 1970s and 1980s. (Sherwood: "My goal was to try to break down those partisan walls… For that, I am proud—to have aligned planets for a moment in time." ) However, Open Your Eyes was not a chart success; the record peaked at number 151 on the Billboard 200 but failed to enter the charts in the UK. The title single managed to reach number 33 on the mainstream rock chart. For

14453-416: The early sessions, Moraz was told to leave in order to allow Wakeman to return to the band. Moraz spoke about his departure: "Even though, at the time, the split 'was not made to appear acrimonious', I suffered extremely and extensively. To be 'asked to leave' so suddenly put me in a lot of turmoil and disturbance ... I was never compensated for anything. I never ever got paid for any of my tour participation in

14602-567: The final scores" to the soundtrack to Predator (1987) and Wild Orchid (1989). The project gave him the opportunity to visit the filming of Predator in Mexico, and to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mickey Rourke . However, Moraz could not fully complete the score for Predator because of an upcoming tour with the Moody Blues, leaving Alan Silvestri to compose the rest. He also operated Aquarius Studios in Geneva with Ristori. Moraz performed

14751-483: The first album, Time and a Word features original songs and two new covers–"Everydays" by Buffalo Springfield and "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" by Richie Havens . The album broke into the UK charts, peaking at number 45. Banks' replacement was Tomorrow guitarist Steve Howe , who appears in the photograph of the group on the American issue despite not having played on it. The band retreated to

14900-739: The four band members had not all recorded together; Anderson and producer Chris Kimsey slotted their parts into place. Howe has stated publicly that he was unhappy with the mix of his guitars on the album, though a version of "Fist of Fire" with more of Howe's guitars left intact appeared on the In a Word: Yes box set in 2002. ABWH toured in 1989 and 1990 as "An Evening of Yes Music" which featured Levin, keyboardist Julian Colbeck , and guitarist Milton McDonald as support musicians. A live album and home video were recorded and released in 1993, both titled An Evening of Yes Music Plus that featured Jeff Berlin on bass due to Levin suffering from illness. The tour

15049-502: The four songs to add to the new album which would then be released under the Yes name. Union was released in April 1991 and is the thirteenth studio album from Yes. Each group played their own songs, with Anderson singing on all tracks. Squire sang background vocals on a few of the ABWH tracks, with Tony Levin playing all the bass on those songs. The album does not feature all eight members playing at once. The track "Masquerade" earned Yes

15198-412: The group to seek outside songwriters, preferably ones who could help them deliver hit singles. Anderson approached Rabin about the situation, and Rabin sent Anderson a demo tape with three songs, indicating that ABWH could have one but had to send the others back. Arista listened to them and wanted all of them, proposing to create a combined album with both Yes factions. The "Yes-West" group were working on

15347-433: The group; after Drama (1980) and its tour, Yes disbanded in 1981. In 1983, Squire and White reformed Yes with Anderson, Kaye, and guitarist Trevor Rabin . Rabin's songwriting helped move the band toward a more pop-oriented sound, the result of which was 90125 (1983), their highest-selling album, which featured the band's only U.S. number-one single, " Owner of a Lonely Heart ". Its follow-up, Big Generator (1987),

15496-485: The height of punk rock in England, during which the music press criticised Yes as representing the bloated excesses of early-1970s progressive rock. The album saw the band continuing their movement towards shorter songs; no track runs longer than eight minutes. Wakeman replaced his Mellotrons with the Birotron , a tape replay keyboard , and Squire experimented with harmonisers and Mu-tron pedals with his bass. Production

15645-470: The music led to his finally joining Yes as a full member (taking on the role of harmony singer, keyboardist and second guitarist). The results of the sessions were released in November 1997 as the seventeenth Yes studio album, Open Your Eyes (on the Beyond Music label, who ensured that the group had greater control in packaging and naming). The music (mainly at Sherwood's urging) attempted to bridge

15794-444: The notation fails to describe the metric "time bending" taking place, or compound meters . See Additive meters below. Some video samples are shown below. While time signatures usually express a regular pattern of beat stresses continuing through a piece (or at least a section), sometimes composers change time signatures often enough to result in music with an extremely irregular rhythm. The time signature may switch so much that

15943-409: The orchestral and choral textures that befitted their new material. Released on 12 November 1971, the band's fourth album Fragile showcased their growing interest in the structures of classical music, with an excerpt of The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky being played at the start of their concerts since the album's 1971–1972 tour . Each member performed a solo track on the album, and it marked

16092-451: The other: For instance, 4 means two quarter-notes (crotchets) per bar, while 8 means four eighth-notes (quavers) per bar. The most common time signatures are 4 , 4 , and 4 . By convention, two special symbols are sometimes used for 4 and 2 : These symbols derive from mensural time signatures , described below. Simple meters are those whose upper number

16241-530: The phone, and accepted an audition in London in July 1978. Before his arrival, Moraz performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Brazilian musicians Airto Moreira and Gilberto Gil . The audition with the Moody Blues was successful, and Moraz "Got the gig that very afternoon". Moraz toured with the Moody Blues in support of their ninth album, Octave (1978), which began in late 1978. Their next album, Long Distance Voyager (1981), became

16390-416: The primary stress of the measure, and italics denote a secondary stress. Syllables such as "and" are frequently used for pulsing in between numbers. Simple : 4 is a simple triple meter time signature that represents three quarter notes (crotchets), usually perceived as three beats. In this case the subdivision would be the eighth note (quaver). It is felt as Compound : Most often, 8

16539-414: The project, their growing musical differences, combined with internal dissension, obstructed progress. Journalist Chris Welch, after attending a rehearsal, noted that Anderson "was singing without his usual conviction and seemed disinclined to talk". By late March, Howe, Squire and White had begun demoing material as an instrumental trio, increasingly uncertain about Anderson's future involvement. Eventually,

16688-656: The record, joined by the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Community Gospel Choir . Howe and Bruford performed together on television (presented as "Yes") to promote the album, marking Bruford's final performance under the Yes name before retiring from performing. The next Yes studio album, as with Union , was masterminded by a record company, rather than by

16837-401: The recording sessions for Relayer , which took place at Squire's home in Virginia Water , Surrey. Released in November that year, Relayer showcased a jazz fusion -influenced direction the band were pursuing. The album features the 22-minute track titled " The Gates of Delirium ", which highlights a battle initially inspired by War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy . Its closing section, "Soon",

16986-518: The rest preferred a heavier rock sound. Howe, Squire and White liked none of the music Anderson was offering at the time as it was too lightweight and lacking in the heaviness that they were generating in their own writing sessions. The Paris sessions abruptly ended in December after White broke his foot while rollerskating in a roller disco. When the band, minus Wakeman (who had only committed to recording keyboard overdubs once new material would be ready to record), reconvened in February to resume work on

17135-432: The round with a £50,000 revolving stage and a 360-degree sound system fitted above it. Their dates at Madison Square Gardens earned Yes a Golden Ticket Award for grossing over $ 1 million in box office receipts. In October 1979, the band convened in Paris with producer Roy Thomas Baker . Their diverse approach was now succumbing to division, as Anderson and Wakeman favoured the more fantastical and delicate approach while

17284-420: The same beat pattern, they would conventionally be used for increasingly slow music. A 20th century example is " O Fortuna " (1935–1936) by Carl Orff , which begins slowly in 1 , and then speeds up and changes to 2 . Signatures that do not fit the usual simple or compound categories are called complex , asymmetric , irregular , unusual , or odd —though these are broad terms, and usually

17433-431: The same circle. And that's what happens with a band." Wakeman, a classically trained player who had left the folk rock group Strawbs earlier in the year, was already a noted studio musician, with credits including T. Rex , David Bowie , Cat Stevens and Elton John . Squire commented that he could play "a grand piano for three bars, a Mellotron for two bars and a Moog for the next one absolutely spot on", which gave Yes

17582-473: The same meter, the time bend can vary from non-existent to considerable; in the latter case, some musicologists may want to assign a different meter. For example, the Bulgarian tune " Eleno Mome " is written in one of three forms: (1) 7 = 2+2+1+2 , (2) 13 = 4+4+2+3 , or (3) 12 = 3+4+2+3 , but an actual performance (e.g., "Eleno Mome" ) may be closer to 4+4+2+3 . The Macedonian 3+2+2+3+2 meter

17731-491: The score to The Stepfather (1987). During the recording for Keys of the Kingdom (1991), Moraz was interviewed for Keyboard magazine. He expressed a feeling that The Moody Blues' music had become too confined and that the group had become stagnant, offering "no musical challenge". The other members, he thought, were unwilling to use his musical compositions and claimed his only composition during his 13 years with them

17880-414: The sessions partway through, all of which kept the album from timely completion (the album was intended for a 1986 release, but by the end of that year it was still incomplete). Eventually Rabin took over final production. The album was released in September 1987, and immediately began receiving heavy radio airplay, with sales reaching number 17 in the UK and number 15 in the U.S. Big Generator earned Yes

18029-407: The short-lived progressive rock group Mainhorse in 1969, and began work scoring films. In 1974, he formed another band, Refugee , and recorded one album before he joined Yes later the same year. Moraz was a member of Yes until 1976, and during this time he also started a solo career. Moraz was a member of the Moody Blues from 1978 to 1991. Since then, he has worked on various solo projects. Moraz

18178-408: The signature's note values. Either way, the next lower note value shorter than the beat is called the subdivision . On occasion a bar may seem like one singular beat. For example, a fast waltz, notated in 4 time, may be described as being one in a bar . Conversely, at slow tempos, the beat might even be a smaller note value than the one enumerated by the time signature. Mathematically

18327-713: The song through after the final mix was complete. Released in February 1971, The Yes Album peaked at number 4 in the UK and number 40 on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts. Yes embarked on a 28-day tour of Europe with Iron Butterfly in January 1971. The band purchased Iron Butterfly's entire public address system , which improved their on-stage performance and sound. Their first date in North America followed on 24 June in Edmonton , Alberta, Canada, supporting Jethro Tull . Friction arose between Howe and Kaye on tour; this, along with Kaye's reported reluctance to play

18476-527: The spring of 1981. Page's former bandmate Robert Plant was also to be involved as the vocalist but he lost enthusiasm, citing his ongoing grieving for recently deceased Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham . The short-lived group produced a few demo tracks, elements of which would appear in Page's band the Firm and on future Yes tracks "Mind Drive" and "Can You Imagine?". In late 1981, Squire and White released " Run with

18625-547: The star-studded Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert . By the end of 1988, Anderson felt creatively sidelined by Rabin and Squire and had grown tired of the musical direction of the "Yes-West" lineup. He took leave of the band, asserting that he would never stay in Yes purely for the money, and started work in Montserrat on a solo project that eventually involved Wakeman, Howe and Bruford. This collaboration led to suggestions that there would be some kind of reformation of

18774-408: The start of their long collaboration with artist Roger Dean , who designed the group's logo , album art and stage sets. Fragile peaked at number 7 in the UK and number 4 in the U.S. after it was released there in January 1972, and was their first record to reach the top ten in North America. A shorter version of the opening track, " Roundabout ", was released as a single that peaked at number 13 on

18923-483: The style of the music would suffer in a traditional concert setting. In late 1994, Moraz began a piano tour of the US and Europe with his Coming Home, America Tour (CHAT), which saw him perform at private or semi-private venues for an $ 800 flat fee, booked entirely by fans through the Internet. One show saw him perform for a couple in their home. The tour ended in November 1995 for a total of 92 performances. One of them

19072-472: The time signatures of, e.g., 4 and 8 are interchangeable. In a sense all simple triple time signatures, such as 8 , 4 , 2 , etc.—and all compound duple times, such as 8 , 16 and so on, are equivalent. A piece in 4 can be easily rewritten in 8 , simply by halving the length of the notes. Other time signature rewritings are possible: most commonly

19221-585: The title track. In April 2014, Moraz took part in the annual progressive rock-themed cruise voyage Cruise to the Edge as a solo artist. In 2015, Moraz and drummer Greg Alban formed the Moraz Alban Project and released a studio album The M.A.P. Project (2015), featuring percussionist Lenny Castro, saxophonist Dave Van Such, bassists John Avila and Patrick Perrier, and Counting Crows bassist Matt Malley. Moraz and Alban met in 1983 and Alban played drums on Moraz's album Time Code (1984). The project

19370-534: The traditional music of neighboring peoples (e.g., the Bulgarians ). He suggested that such timings can be regarded as compounds of simple two-beat and three-beat meters, where an accent falls on every first beat, even though, for example in Bulgarian music , beat lengths of 1, 2, 3, 4 are used in the metric description. In addition, when focused only on stressed beats, simple time signatures can count as beats in

19519-636: The union then spotted him playing in a restaurant, causing Moraz to leave the country and cancel proposals to jam with a Bournemouth group, the Night People. He also worked by selling encyclopaedias in Geneva . In 1965, Moraz's quartet won an award at the Zürich jazz festival, and was soon invited to be the opening act for a European tour headlined by American saxophonist John Coltrane . Moraz returned to England in 1969 when he auditioned potential players for

19668-418: Was "half a song with the drummer". Before the Moody Blues toured the album, Moraz was fired from the band. In September 1991, Moraz sued the group for $ 500,000 as well as wrongful dismissal, claiming the group decided to split their profits four ways instead of five, and wished to be paid royalties he felt were owed to him as a full-time member of the band for almost 15 years. However, the group maintained Moraz

19817-399: Was also dogged by legal battles sparked by Atlantic Records due to the band's references to Yes in promotional materials and the tour title. Following the tour, the group returned to the recording studio to produce their second album, tentatively called Dialogue . After hearing the tracks, Arista Records refused to release the album as they felt the initial mixes were weak. They encouraged

19966-410: Was also successful. In 1989, Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe formed a separate group and released a self-titled album . At the suggestion of the record company, both groups merged into an eight-piece lineup for Union (1991) and its tour. The combined group was short-lived, and from 1994 to 2001, Yes regularly released studio albums with some lineup changes and varying levels of success. After

20115-486: Was an Alban solo endeavour at first, with Moraz contributing to the music, but it grew to feature numerous other musicians with the music written around the drums and keyboards. In November 2015, Moraz released a limited edition 19-CD box set of his 18 albums, including Mainhorse (1971), The Story of I (1976) and the live album Music for Piano and Drums: Live in Maryland (2012). Moraz took part in his second Cruise to

20264-487: Was born on 24 June 1948 on an aeroplane, though Morges , Switzerland, has been cited as his hometown. He was born in to a musical family; his father used to work for Polish pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski . He has a sister, Patricia. As a child, Moraz played the violin, piano, and percussion and wrote compositions for the piano at the age of five. He studied jazz and classical music until his development came to an abrupt halt at thirteen after he broke four fingers in

20413-420: Was handled collectively by the band and saw disagreements at the mixing stage among the members. With heavy commercial rock-radio airplay, the album reached number 8 in the UK and number 10 in the U.S. charts, and was also certified platinum (1 million copies sold) by the RIAA . Despite internal and external criticisms of the album, the band's 1978–1979 tour was a commercial success. Concerts were performed in

20562-525: Was not a commercial success, but the group secured work by performing at gigs in Germany. Moraz took up further work as a film composer on The Salamander (1971). After touring Japan and Hong Kong as a musical director for a Brazilian ballet, Moraz returned to Switzerland in 1973. He recorded further film music for The Invitation (1973) and The Middle of the World (1974). In the summer, Moraz received

20711-532: Was on 27 July, at Newmarket. Having considered the experience of Mabel Greer's Toyshop concluded, the group exchanged ideas for a new name. Anderson suggested Life and Squire thought of World, but the five agreed on Yes, which Banks had thought of a couple of years before. After rehearsals between 31 July and 2 August, the first gig as Yes followed at a youth camp in East Mersea , Essex on 3 August. Early sets were formed of cover songs from artists such as

20860-418: Was one of a number of irregular-meter compositions that The Dave Brubeck Quartet played. They played other compositions in 4 ("Eleven Four"), 4 (" Unsquare Dance "), and 8 (" Blue Rondo à la Turk "), expressed as 8 . "Blue Rondo à la Turk" is an example of a signature that, despite appearing merely compound triple, is actually more complex. Brubeck's title refers to

21009-474: Was only a hired musician, despite his name being listed as a member on their albums and promotional materials and his appearing in official band photographs. On December 28, 1992, the jury in the case, aired on Court TV , awarded Moraz $ 77,175 from the defendants. Moraz had been offered $ 400,000 before the lawsuit. After his dismissal from the Moody Blues, Moraz has primarily concentrated on solo projects. His first of three piano albums, Windows of Time (1994),

21158-507: Was recorded and released as PM in Princeton (1995) for CD and video. In 1997, Moraz started work on a new album, A Way to Freedom , featuring arrangements for a symphony orchestra, percussionists, and a jazz brass band. The project remains a work in progress. From 1998 to 2000, Moraz worked almost exclusively on his second piano album Resonance (2000), which, like Windows of Time , was cut to exactly one hour of music. He also performed at

21307-515: Was recorded in a studio at Full Sail University in Florida. A total of fourteen hours of material was recorded which was cut to exactly one hour. Moraz then spent the next four years developing "hundreds of pieces of music for all instruments, as well as orchestras and choirs", producing several artists, and completed work for the Conference on World Affairs , of which he is an official delegate. He also wished to tour Windows of Time , but thought

21456-669: Was released in 2023. Yes are one of the most successful, influential, and longest-lasting progressive rock bands. With a discography spanning 23 studio albums, they have sold 13.5 million Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified albums in the U.S., as well as more than 30 million albums worldwide. In 1985, they won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance with " Cinema ", and received five Grammy nominations between 1985 and 1992. They were ranked No. 94 on VH1 's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock . In April 2017, Yes—represented by Anderson, Squire, Bruford, Kaye, Howe, Wakeman, White, and Rabin—were inducted into

21605-521: Was released in March 1994 and is the band's fourteenth studio release. Its cover was designed by pop artist Peter Max . The record was largely composed and performed by Rabin, with the other band members following Rabin's tracks for their respective instrumentation. It was digitally recorded and produced by Rabin with engineer Michael Jay, using 3.4 GB of hard disk storage split among four networked Apple Macintosh computers running Digital Performer . The album blended elements of radio-friendly rock with

21754-501: Was subsequently released as a single. The album reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 5 in the U.S. Yes embarked on their 1974–1975 tour to support Relayer . The compilation album Yesterdays , released in 1975, contained tracks from Yes's first two albums, the B-side track from their "Sweet Dreams" single from 1970 titled "Dear Father", and the original ten-minute version of their cover of "America". Between 1975 and 1976, each member of

21903-410: Was suddenly stiff competition on the London gigging circuit, and they needed to be much more technically proficient, starting regular rehearsals. They subsequently signed a deal with Atlantic Records , and, that August, released their debut album Yes . Compiled of mostly original material, the record includes renditions of " Every Little Thing " by the Beatles and "I See You" by The Byrds . Although

22052-467: Was time to leave". Moraz's audition occurred in the first week of August 1974 with Vangelis's keyboards, which were still set up in the rehearsal room. After tuning up, Moraz watched the band play the middle section of "Sound Chaser", which he said was "Absolutely unbelievable. To experience that – the truest surround experience I had ever encountered as an observer and listener". He was then asked to come up with an opening to it, and what he played ended up on

22201-666: Was very good but it was obvious they weren't going anywhere". Barrie introduced Squire to singer Jon Anderson , a worker at the bar in La Chasse, who found they shared interests in Simon & Garfunkel and harmony singing. That evening at Squire's house they wrote "Sweetness" which was included on the first Yes album, and Anderson subsequently joined as lead vocalist. In June 1968, Hagger was replaced by Bill Bruford , who had placed an advertisement in Melody Maker , while in July

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