Where are they now? - Others associated with Yes

Where are they now? - Others associated with Yes
(in alphabetical order)

This page last updated: 6 Oct 2024

YES and projects with several Yesmen
Jon
Anderson
Steve
Howe

Geoff
Downes
Chris Squire
Alan White
Billy
Sherwood

Jon
Davison

Rick
Wakeman

Patrick
Moraz

Trevor
Rabin

Trevor
Horn

Tony
Kaye

Oliver Wakeman
Jay Schellen
Igor
Khoroshev

Bill
Bruford

Peter Banks
Benoît David
Asia
Arc of Life
CIRCA:
Yes ft. Anderson Rabin Wakeman
Others associated with the band

On this page: Damion Anderson - Deborah Anderson - Jade (Anderson) Hawkins - Tony Anderson - Clive Bayley - Jeff Berlin - Tom Brislin - Matt Clifford - Julian Colbeck - Roger Dean - Marjorie DeLuca - Francis Dunnery - Jonathan Elias - Bruce Gowdy - Larry Groupé - Jimmy Haun - Aaron Horn - Iain Hornal - Dylan Howe - Zoë Street Howe - JJ Jeczalik - Eddie Jobson - Sidonie Jordan - Paul K Joyce - Gary Langan - Alex Lasarenko - Tony Levin - Milton McDonald - Frank Macchia - Mark Mancina - Lou Molino - Eddie Offord - Lee Pomeroy - Steve Porcaro - Graham Preskett - Alex Proyce - Ryan Rabin - Randy Raine-Reusch - Curtis Schwartz - Bobby Sherwood - Jay Schellen - Michael Sherwood - Pete Sinfield - Nikki Squire - Vangelis - Adam Wakeman - Benjamin Wakeman - Jemma Wakeman - Tim Weidner - Steven Wilson - Casey Young


Damion Anderson - Jon's son. SoundCloud; MySpace page

Damion has written songs with dad Jon for a possible next Anderson/Stolt album. In a Jan 2021 interview, talking about the project, Stolt referred to there being "probably seven or eight songs" that "we've done up to this point", with there being "one or two of the songs he [Jon] wrote together with his son." Stolt talked more about one song they've co-written in a 2023 interview with Yesshift, saying "There's one little song he wrote together with his son, y'know, that I absolutely love. Great song. Very melodic. Very poppy, but great." In a Jun 2011 interview, Jon said he was writing material with Damion: see under Jon Anderson for details.
 
Damion has several songs available on his SoundCloud account.

Deborah Anderson - Jon's daughter; backing vocals on ABWH. MySpace page; Deborah Anderson Photography; Twitter; Facebook

Deborah's photography project on the history of Barbados, entitled "A Love Letter to Barbados", was exhibited at the Photoville Festival 2023 (3-18 Jun, New York, NY). She has an exhibition entitled "Faces of Leica LA" from 4 Nov 2023 at 743 Santeria Street, Los Angeles, CA.

Deborah made "Women of the White Buffalo" (89 minutes; trailer; Twitter), a feature documentary film about the Lakota women living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, narrated by Rita Coolidge. Deborah directed and edited, with the screenplay by her and Charlotte Chatton (Brian Chatton's daughter). The film is produced by Deborah Anderson, Adam Schomer, Charles Barsamian and Kumiko Hayashi, and co-produced by Rachelle Garzia, Matthew Rebula and Chatton. The associate producers are Carol Iron Rope Herrera and Linda Livingston, with executive producers including Julian Lennon and The Edge. The film premièred Nov 2019 in Beverly Hills, at the 24th Red Nation International Film Festival. There was a crowdfunding campaign for a final edit and self-distribution. The film was released 12 Apr 2022 in 68 territories on Google Play, Apple TV, Vudu and Amazon. She previously exhibited photos of the project.

Dad Jon Anderson wrote and performed the theme song with Delacina Chief Eagle, who appears in the film. (Jon has an older song called "White Buffalo", but I presume the song for the film is different.) Deborah said, "His voice is also featured throughout th[e] [...] film." Jon was interviewed about the film here in early 2021. The score was by Jennie Muskett (scored Spooks).

Deborah continues to do photography for her father. She has done photos for his forthcoming album True with the Band Geeks.




Deborah launched a podcast, Awaken the Wyldsage, in 2024.


Jade Hawkins (née Anderson) - Jon's daughter. YouTube page; Twitter

Jade has been working as an actress and model. She currently is involved with a California animal sanctuary, The Smallest Little Farm.

Tony Anderson - Jon's brother. YouTube page

Tony is a Pentecostal Church minister on the beautiful Isle of Wight. He has a band, Stop, with his wife Sue.

Clive Bayley - co-wrote "Beyond & Before" and "Sweetness" as a member of Mabel Greer's Toyshop

Bayley and keyboardist Max Hunt (ex-Yes tribute band Fragile, worked with Jon Anderson, Fish) have been working together in the reunited Mabel Greer's Toyshop. On 13 Jun 2020, they released the 10-track digital album Whispers as a duo. Music was by Bayley/Hunt, lyrics by Bayley. Bayley sang and played acoustic & electric guitars and bass. Hunt provided keys, acoustic & electric guitars, bass, backing vocals, accordion, drums, percussion, rhythm loops and samples. Jürgen Linkis on drums. The album was engineered, mixed & mastered by Hunt, and produced by Hunt/Bayley.

Bayley also guests on vocals on 2 tracks of Golden Fragments, the first original album by Fragile, formerly a Yes tribute band. The band consists of Hunt (keys, bass, guitar, percussion, vocals), Claire Hamill (worked with Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, Alan White, Jon & Vangelis, John Martyn; vocals), Oliver Day (worked with John Holden; guitars) and Russ Wilson (drums, percussion).


Jeff Berlin - bass on An Evening of Yes Music Plus. Homepage; Facebook

Berlin crowdsourced a Jack Bruce tribute album called Jack Songs (and formerly called Songs for a Wailer), with 10 tracks, 8 by Bruce and 2 originals by Berlin. Berlin described the project: "I've arranged every song with fresh interpretations making sure that each song retained the original spirit that Jack included in every tune he wrote." The album was delayed from an initial planned date in Sep 2021, coming out around early Aug 2022, and available from Berlin's website. Berlin plays bass throughout, with a "bass relay" on "Smiles & Grins" of Tony Levin (on Chapman stick), Billy Sheehan, Michael League, Mark King, Ron Carter, Marcus Miller, Nathan East and Geddy Lee (ex-Rush). On vocals are Berlin, Sammy Hagar, Alex Ligertwood, Ron Hemby, John Cowan, Gabriela Sinagra, Michael Dearing and Gumbi Ortiz. On guitars are Alex Lifeson (ex-Rush), Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (Asia), Johnny Hiland, Eric Johnson, Scott Henderson and John McCracken. On drums and percussion, there is Bruce Guttridge, Gary Husband, Quintino Cinali, Gregg Bissonette and Ortiz. On keys, there's Berlin, Pat Coil, Mariano Agustoni and Michael Whittaker. Plus, on horns, Don Aliquo (alto), Max Abrams (tenor), Tyler Jaeger (alto), Tyler Summers (trumpet) and Emmanuel Echem (trumpet). The album was engineered and produced by John McCracken.

Berlin is touring in support of Jack Songs in 2023 with Bruce Guttridge (drums), Michael Dearing (vocals), Michael Whitaker (keys) and John McCracken (guitar).

Berlin runs The Players School of Music in Florida.

Tom Brislin - keys on YesSymphonic tour. Twitter

Brislin is in Kansas and has been touring with them since 2019. Touring continued in 2023 and continues in 2024 in celebration of the band's 50th anniversary from Jun. There are regular 2024 dates through to 11 Dec on their 50th anniversary tour, they then play a classic Kansas set for dates from 23 Jan 2025-22 Mar 2025. The rest of the band have been Phil Ehart (manager, but not currently touring for health reasons), Rich Williams (guitar), Billy Greer (bass, vocals), Joe Deninzon (violin), Eric Holmquist (drums) and Ronnie Platt (vocals). Zak Rizvi (guitar) also re-joined the band, from the 26 Apr 2024 show onwards. Dan McGowan filled in for Greer at some shows in May 2024; Greer was due to return to the band on 12 Jul 2024. He then retired from the band in Sep 2024, with the band saying they will announce a new bassist shortly.

Brislin's first album with the band was The Absence of Presence (InsideOut Music), released Jul 2020. The rest of the band were Ehart (drums, percussion), Williams (guitar), Greer (bass, vocals), David Ragsdale (violin, backing vocals), Platt (vocals) and Zak (Zarak) Rizvi (guitar, backing vocals), but Rizvi left in Apr 2021 and Ragsdale left in May 2023. The album was produced by Rizvi and co-produced by Ehart/Williams. Tracks:


  1. "The Absence of Presence" [mus: Rizvi; lyr: Brislin/Ehart] (8:22)
  2. "Throwing Mountains" [mus: Rizvi; lyr: Brislin/Ehart] (6:18), video
  3. "Jets Overhead" [mus: Rizvi; lyr: Brislin] (5:17), video
  4. "Propulsion 1" [Brislin] (2:17)
  5. "Memories Down the Line" [Brislin] (4:38), lyric video
  6. "Circus of Illusion" [mus: Rizvi; lyr: Platt] (5:19)
  7. "Animals on the Roof" [mus: Rizvi; lyr: Brislin/Ehart] (5:12)
  8. "Never" [mus: Rizvi; lyr: Platt/Ehart] (4:50)
  9. "The Song the River Sang" [Brislin] (5:05)

The album has 4 pieces from Rizvi but with lyrics by or largely by Brislin—"Throwing Mountains" (title and lyric ideas by Ehart), "The Absence of Presence" (title and lyrical concept by Ehart), "Jets Overhead" and "Animals on the Roof"—while "Memories Down the Line" and "The Song the River Sang" are complete songs Brislin wrote for the band. Brislin also composed the instrumental "Propulsion 1", which was written several years earlier. Platt is the main vocalist on the album, but Brislin sings lead on "The Song the River Sang" and provides backing vocals for much of the album.

Brislin said in an Aug 2021 interview that the band will make another album. In a Feb 2023 interview with Yesshift, Brislin said, "I am working on new music for Kansas. We will have another album one of these days."




Kansas released The Point of Know Return Live & Beyond (InsideOut Music) in May 2021, taken from across 12 shows in 2019-20, during which they played all of the band's album Point of Know Return. The release was available digitally, as a 2CD, and as a 3LP+2CD box (with 180g vinyl). Tracks—disc 1:

1. "Cold Grey Morning"
2. "Two Cents Worth"
3. "The Wall"
4. "Song for America"
5. "Summer"
6. "Musicatto"
7. "Taking in the View"
8. "Miracles Out of Nowhere"
Disc 2:
9. "Point of Know Return"
10. "Paradox"
11. "The Spider"
12. "Portrait (He Knew)"
13. "Closet Chronicles"
14. "Lightning's Hand"
15. "Dust in the Wind"
16. "Sparks of the Tempest"
17. "Nobody's Home"
18. "Hopelessly Human"
19. "Carry on Wayward Son"
20. "People of the South Wind"
21. "Refugee"
22. "Lonely Wind"



Kansas released Another Fork in the Road – 50 Years of Kansas in Dec 2022. This 3CD set, overseen by Ehart, compiled material across the band's history, including 2 tracks from The Absence of Presence with Brislin. New for the set was a recording by the current band of "Can I Tell You", originally released on the band's debut album.

In a May 2020 interview, Brislin said he was writing a lot during the COVID-19 lockdown, which might be for various different projects. He mooted the possibility of another solo album. He was also teaching. In a May 2021 interview with the New Ears Prog Show, possibly recorded in Apr, Brislin again talked of writing during the pandemic, saying he wrote with "no preconceptions" with the plan being to "sort it out later" what he did with the material. He described now having "over 100 of these little [...] recordings" that he is now sorting through for potentially Kansas, his solo career, The Sea Within or other projects. In an Aug 2022 interview, he said he was writing new music.

Brislin was at the 2018 ProgStock Festival with his new band called Gold Rotation, consisting of himself (keys, vocals), Randy McStine (Lo-Fi Resistance; guitar, bass, vocals), Daniel McGowan (The Tea Club; guitar, vocals), Rajendra Sharma (ex-Spiraling; drums) and David Anthony (percussion). Set: "Stuff You Would Not Understand" (from his solo album Hurry Up and Smell the Roses), "Your Favorite Day" (Hurry Up...), "Titan" (probably a new piece), "Industry in the Distance" (Hurry Up...), "They Know My Name" (originally released by The Sea Within; solo piano), "Liftoff" (Hurry Up...; solo piano), "When You Told Me Not to Go" (Hurry Up...; solo piano), "Wind Him Up" (originally by Saga; with Michael Sadler), "Hurry Up and Smell the Roses" (Hurry Up...), "I Hold a Candle" (Hurry Up...), "Microphone" (Hurry Up...). In his 2019 new year's message, Brislin said the band would be writing and recording in 2019. In the Feb 2019 interview, he said, "There's a lot of writing on the agenda, and we aim to start recording in the coming months."

Brislin was one of two keyboardists on Invention of Knowledge by Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt (Transatlantic, The Flower Kings): see under Anderson for details. Brislin (keys, backing vocals) also joined Stolt (guitars, backing vocals, keys) in The Sea Within (Twitter), which includes two more performers who were on Invention of Knowledge, Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings, Steve Hackett, Karmakanic, worked with The Syn; bass) and Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation, Transatlantic, ex-The Flower Kings; vocals, guitar), plus Marco Minnemann (Levin Minnemann Rudess, Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, Mike Keneally, In Continuum, worked with Eddie Jobson, UK, Trey Gunn, Alex Lifeson, Joe Satriani; drums, percussion, guitar, backing vocals). Their debut album, also called The Sea Within (details in Yescography), was released Jun 2018. Anderson guested on 1 song. Gildenlöw withdrew from the band before live work; the band played live thrice. There was a Jul 2018 show at the Night of the Prog festival, Loreley, Germany, with Pete Trewavas (Marillion, Transatlantic) subbing for Reingold, who was otherwise committed. They played twice on the Cruise to the Edge 2019, with Stolt, Reingold, Brislin, Minnemann and Casey McPherson (Flying Colors). The band were already considering a second album, according to Stolt in a May 2018 interview, based around an expected core of Stolt, McPherson, Reingold, Brislin and Minnemann, with Gildenlöw possibly just guesting. When he was asked about more touring in his Feb 2019 interview, Brislin noted, "With my new position in Kansas, Jonas playing bass for Steve Hackett, and a new iteration of the Flower Kings, we're going to put our heads together to see where the Sea Within fits in to everything. We all believe that there's a lot of potential yet to explore."

In a Feb 2020 interview, asked about his activities for the year, Stolt said, "if God will there may be another The Sea Within-album". In an Oct 2020 interview with Yes Music Podcast, Stolt said:
There was plans last year [2019]. We were all on the boat [...] We had a kind of a band meeting and we were talking about, ‘OK, shall we try make something next year, and shall we try write some songs etc.?’ But I think pretty much it stopped there and I don’t know if it has anything to do with the corona or band members being busy with other stuff, but I’m thinking, I mean, now we have this situation where no-one really can go out and play [...] There should be time, but I think probably the reality is that we have so many other things to do, so it’s just sitting there, waiting to be made, but I can’t tell really when.

He said more in a Jan 2021 interview:

It’s strange time for all of us. It’s about a couple of different things, we have other projects, but it’s also about survival. So we need to find ways to get the money in. Transatlantic for me is a good way of that, and The Flower Kings [...] So sometimes I have to give priority, you know, and which I kind of regret sometimes, but it’s reality. [...] Sometimes I’m too much of a dreamer. So I just think about all these projects with other people that I want to do and it just goes on and on and on. Sometimes you spend a lot of time on projects that don’t generate a lot of money. There’s other stuff, even like The Sea Within, there was a plan for a second album. We haven’t made much progress to be honest, but there are songs and so we got to just say, Okay, let’s do this now, and start sending out files and, Can you sing on this? Can you play drums on this? And then once we get to that point then you can move forward.

In an Aug 2023 interview, with Yesshift, he said: "I hope for a second album, but I... Being realistic, the way things are right now, y'know, with Tom with Kansas and Jonas playing with Steve Hackett and I try to slim down a little bit [...] I decided to cut down a little bit and concentrate on the Flower Kings, try to concentrate on making this album with Jon [the follow-up to Invention of Knowledge] and [a project with Doane Perry]."

Asked about The Sea Within in a May 2021 interview with the New Ears Prog Show, Minnemann said, "[W]e keep in touch, obviously, and we have plans, y'know, for making those albums, y'know, and doing it further". But he then spoke about enjoying focusing on his main projects (McStine & Minnemann, The Aristocrats) during the pandemic. He continued, "I don't want to kind of right now detour to kind of release another bunch of albums with someone else to confuse [...] people", preferring to concentrate on the next two McStine & Minnemann releases.



Asked if there would be new activity from the band in the Feb 2023 Yesshift interview, Brislin said, "Never say never! But [...] The Sea Within was something that ended up being short-lived for a few reasons. I started playing with Kansas and Jonas got on the Steve Hackett tour [...] A lot of things happened that we didn't expect but had to run with".

In his May 2018 Yes Music Podcast interview, Brislin said he and Jon Anderson have been and are looking for further ways to work together. Likewise, in this Jul 2018 interview, he said, "Jon Anderson and I had been talking about ways to work together ever since my tours with Yes in 2001."


Matt Clifford - additional keys on ABWH

Clifford has played keys with the Rolling Stones since 2012. He appears on their new album Hackney Diamonds, out 20 Oct, except for the final track ("Rolling Stone Blues"). He is mainly on piano, but also has credits on keys, piano, Wurlitzer, Rhodes and B3 organ.

He played piano on the debut single, "Angry", which made #11 in New Zealand, #21 in Germany, #34 in the UK, #35 in Flanders (Belgium), #41 in Austria, #52 in the Netherlands, #57 in Switzerland, #66 in Japan, and #153 in South Korea. He played B3 organ on the second single, "Sweet Sounds of Heaven", which made #23 in New Zealand and #84 in Germany. It also made #2 in the UK singles sales chart, #19 in the Canadian digital sales chart, #29 in the US digital sales chart, and #6 in the Japanese overseas singles chart.

The album made #1 in the UK, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. It made #3 in the US. It went Gold in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Austria. It was the best-selling album of 2023 in Germany.


Julian Colbeck - additional keys live with ABWH

Colbeck is CEO of Keyfax music production company.




Roger Dean - cover artist. Homepage

Dean continues to work regularly with Yes and friends. He did the cover for Mirror to the Sky, the new Yes album: see on main page. Other recent work has been for Downes Braide Association (DBA), including Celestial Songs, and Rick Wakeman's Yessonata. He did the cover for Focus 12, out Jul 2024. Dean has been doing regular videos of his painting live or Q&As.

Dean joined Yes on their 2022 UK tour, exhibiting art and directing the live shows. He exhibited on tour with Yes in 2024. He was to exhibit with Asia in 2024 as well, but had to pull out of that tour. He was also exhibiting at Ubicua Gallery, London in May 2024.

He was working on Henk Rogers' moonbase project, with a prototype to be built in Hawaii. He continues to work on his film project, "Floating Islands"—details on main page. He also talked about making a film to show people how we could live in the future in this Feb 2018 YouTube video.

Marjorie M DeLuca - Trevor Horn's sister. Official blog; Twitter

DeLuca is a fiction author based in Canada. "The Night Side" was released in 2024.

Francis Dunnery - backing vocals on ABWH. Official website

Francis Dunnery continues to record and tour as a solo artist. He guested on the Downes Braide Association album Celestial Songs.

Dunnery has also been working with Dave Kerzner (Sonic Reality, working with Simon Collins, Billy Sherwood, Steve Hackett, worked with Steven Wilson, Jon Anderson, ex-Giraffe) on the Sonic Elements projects, appearing on IT - A Celebration of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: see details on the main page.



Jonathan Elias - producer, composer, additional keyboards and vocals on Union. EliasArts; EliasArts profile; MySpace page; MySpace page for EliasArts

Elias and Jon Anderson have been working together. Material initially written with Elias is used on 2 songs on True, Anderson's album with the Band Geeks.

Elias worked with Anderson on Anderson's Sunlight album of production music. Elias was involved in another project that appears to have stalled: see under Anderson. Elias was also working on an album with Yungchen Lhamo (who appeared on his Prayer Cycle: Path to Zero).

Elias continues to work with Jimmy Haun. Haun and Elias were working with singer Lindsey Haun (Jimmy's daughter). Elias continues to do music for various adverts and films.

Bruce Gowdy - guitar with Squire/Sherwood/White/Kaye before Union.

Gowdy is in Unruly Child (Facebook), whose latest album was Our Glass House (Frontiers, 2020). The core of the band is Gowdy (guitars, bass, keys, vocals), Guy Allison (ex-World Trade, ex-Lodgic; keys, percussion, vocals) and Marcie Michelle Free (ex-King Kobra; lead vocals), while also appearing on the album were Jay Schllen (drums), Tony Franklin (bass) and Betsy Summers (backing vocals, songwriting).

Gowdy also guested on Allison's solo album, A Designed Presence, released Aug 2023.

Larry Groupé - orchestral arrangements/conducting on Magnification/YesSymphonic. Official website; Current projects

Groupé writes music for film, TV, CD-ROMs etc. He did the score for "The Outpost", the film drama directed by Rod Lurie. There was a limited edition CD (1000 copies) and digital release of the score album, The Outpost (La-La Land Records, LLLCD 1537), with 17 tracks and a 43:22 duration. The album includes the endtitles song "Everybody Cries", performed by Rita Wilson. It was produced by Groupé, Steven Wayne Thomas and Dan Goldwasser. Tracks:
  1. "Dopple Drop" (1:08)
  2. "Shura" (3:55)
  3. "Too Many Mountains" (2:01)
  4. "Don't Argue & Fight" (2:21)
  5. "Phone Home" (1:54)
  6. "Run!" (1:19)
  7. "Guess Who's Here" (2:54)
  8. "Sniper" (1:44)
  9. "Keating Dies" (2:25)
  10. "Wrong Coordinates" (2:18)
  11. "Portis Surveys" (3:45)
  12. "Not Today" (2:03)
  13. "Get Radical" (2:08)
  14. "Apaches Arrive" (1:47)
  15. "Theme for the Rank and File" (3:49)
  16. "Everybody Cries" (3:12)
  17. "The Outpost – Fade to Black" (4:39)




Jimmy Haun - guitar on the ABWH component of Union. MySpace page; EliasArts profile; Webpage

Haun is in Arc of Life with Billy Sherwood, Jon Davison, Jay Schellen and Dave Kerzner (In Continuum, Mantra Vega, worked with Francis Dunnery, Jon Anderson, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, Genesis, ex-Giraffe), although the band has now paused: see main page for details. Sherwood, Haun and Schellen are also in CIRCA: with Tony Kaye, with a new album "nearly complete" according to a Mar 2023 interview with Sherwood by Aymeric Leroy (author of "Yes").

Haun did the music for "Hanky Panky", a 2023 horror film co-directed and starring his daughter Lindsey Haun.

Haun plays on the 14-track JJ Chardeau's Ombres and Lumières, out 14 Jul 2023 on Cherry Red (LR2301), the second part of Chardeau's rock opera Magical Musical Man. Others performing include Guy Allison (ex-World Trade), Pat Mastelotto (ex-King Crimson), Danny Seraphine and Jason Scheff (ex-Chicago), John Helliwell (ex-Supertramp), Jerry Goodman (ex-Mahavishnu Orchestra) and Dave Gregory (ex-XTC).

Haun has and continues to work with Jon Anderson on projects. Material initially written with Haun is used on 2 songs on True, Anderson's album with the Band Geeks. In a Jun 2023 Patreon call, Anderson played a song he did with Haun that he said would be part of his Zamran project, while Haun has said other material may appear on Anderson's 1000 Hands: Chapter Two. They released a song on social media in 2023 called "Building" that has been re-worked into "Build Me an Ocean" on True. See details under Jon Anderson.

In a Mar 2020 interview, Haun described multiple projects:

He also said that he and Billy Sherwood had talked about re-recording some Lodgic material.

More generally, he continues to do music for adverts, TV and film as a freelancer. He stills works with Jonathan Elias. In a Feb 2021 interview with SOAL Night Live, he said he was working on a library of music with Elias for Universal. He also said he was doing music for a film by Dito Montiel, with whom he has often worked in the past.

Several years ago, Haun wrote some material with Noella Hutton that she was now recording on a new album.




Aaron Horn, a.k.a. Aaron Audio - Trevor's son. Website; Twitter

Aaron released digitally the ambient album Speaking to Silence on 22 Jul 2022.


He also has the Opal Blue project: "Dark Dogs Morning" (4:11) and "Hard U Kens" (3:02) were both out digitally 2022, with "Slow Underwater City Scape" (3:56) following in Jan 2023, then "Like Home" on 10 Feb 2023. He then released the EP Slow Difference on 3 Mar 2023; tracks: "Slow Difference" (4:15), "Dark Dogs Morning" (4:11), "Hard U Kens" (3:02), "Like Home" (3:23), "Slow Underwater City Scape" (3:56). "Desert Ladders" (3:04) b/w "Southbank Bookseller" (3:34) came 25 Aug 2023. Another EP, Micro Dawn, is forthcoming, with "Awash of Light" released first in Oct 2023. Other tracks include "Southbank Bookseller". "In Your Arms" b/w "UPWRDS" was released digitally 26 Apr 2024.

"Six Compact Dimensions, a Theory of" (7:54) is a digital single released by Horn, Alex Praeger and A Theory on 12 May 2023. "Momentum Flipped, a Theory of" (4:16) followed 2 Jun 2023.

Crate Classics (also stylised CRT CLSSX; Bandcamp; SoundCloud) is a production duo and label (Crate Classics Records) from Aaron Horn and Jamie Rodigan (SoundCloud). Missing is releasing an EP, Missing Melting Pot, through Crate Classics Records. The first general release single is "Ode to Joy (Burnin Up)", by Missing ft. MC DT, out 20 Oct 2023. The b-side is "Stone Ginger Wine" by Missing and Crate Classics, ft. MC DT and Jodian Natty.

Recent singles include "Anything", featuring Jodian Natty, released 18 Feb 2022, and "Ghost Mode" with Catching Cairo released around 18 Mar 2022 on Soulvent Records. "Pusana" (3:25) with Tres was released 20 May 2022. "No Negativity" (visualiser) with the duo Pesolife (Mars Meddo and Kaye Orbit) came in Jul 2022. "Rudeboy Sound" with Jodian Natty was released 2022: it also had a live performance on 27 Sep 2022, with a music video following 7 Oct 2022. "Put Ya Hands Up" (2:26) by Crate Classics & Pesolife was released 28 Oct 2022. The same combination released "Poison" (2:55) in Apr 2023. 18 Aug 2023 then saw the Rudeboy Sound Remix EP released on Bandcamp; tracks:

  1. "Rudeboy Sound (Voltage Remix)" (3:27)
  2. "Rudeboy Sound (Marvellous Cain & Jay Jay Remix)" (4:40)
  3. "Rudeboy Sound (Original Mix)" (3:15)
  4. "Babylon ft Capleton" (3:17)
  5. "Anything ft Jodian Natty" (3:32)

"Pretty Nana" (music video) by Yung Saber X Scorcher X Scrufizzer was produced by Crate Classics.

Aaron had an arranging credit on "Love is a Battlefield" on his dad Trevor's Echoes: Ancient and Modern, out Dec 2023: see under Trevor Horn for details.

Horn also curates sonic experiences, including gong baths. For example, he ran a gong bath at Yogaloft, London on 11 Nov 2023. He also has a podcast. In a Jan 2024 interview, he said he has "gone back to college to study as an osteopath".



Ally (Alexandra) Horn - Trevor's daughter. Twitter

Ally and dad Trevor's PA, Suzanne, have a band together called The Hornettes.

She has been managing director of SPZ.


Will Horn - Trevor's son

Will said in a Feb 2017 interview that he was writing a memoir about being transgendered.


Iain Hornal - bass in Yes feat. Anderson Rabin Wakeman. Website; Facebook; Twitter

Hornal works with Jeff Lynne's ELO (see details under Lee Pomeroy, with whom he plays) and 10cc, led by Graham Gouldman. Hornal is also in Gouldman's spin-off band, Heart Full of Songs.

Big Horizon is a new band consisting of several members of the ELO touring band, namely Hornal, Pomeroy, Mike Stevens (sax, guitar, keys, vocals), Don Hepburn (drums) and Jo Webb. They have recorded some material, with their debut release being the digital single "In the Beginning" (3:56), out digitally 19 Apr 2024. Their second single is "From the Inside Out" (video).

Hornal was a featured vocalist on the forthcoming solo album To the Far Away from Dave Bainbridge. Bainbridge plays guitars, mandolin and bouzouki, while also guesting are Sally Minnear, Lynn Caldwell (lyrics), Frank van Essen, Jon Poole (Lifesigns, The Cardiacs), Troy Donockley (Nightwish, Iona; Uilleann pipes, whistles, vocals), Nigel Cameron, Martin Nolan (Iona) and Julie Cameron-Hall (violin).

Hornal released his 11-track solo album Fly Away Home in Apr 2021, produced by Hornal and Jo Webb (Jeff Lynne's ELO). Webb also mixed and mastered, and plays guitars and keys. Graham Gouldman (10cc) guests on vocals on "The One to Blame".



Dylan Howe - Steve's son; toured with Yes. Official Website; Twitter; Bandcamp

Dylan plays drums in Jazz Sabbath, including some touring, and a live album with Dylan Howe is expected. Jazz Sabbath is led by Adam Wakeman, so see under him for details.

He plays drums on his father Steve's solo album, Guitarscape: see under Steve Howe for details.

In a podcast released Mar 2020, but recorded seemingly in mid-2017, Dylan Howe talked about "preparing" to do some original work as a solo artist/bandleader.


Zoë Howe - Steve's daughter-in-law; Dylan's wife; YouTube, Twitter; Patreon

Zoë Howe works as a music journalist, author, radio DJ and drummer.




JJ Jeczalik - programming on 90125

See under Gary Langan.


Eddie Jobson - briefly joined Yes before the release of 90125. Homepage; Official Facebook fan page; Zealots Lounge

In Oct 2017, Jobson announced his retirement from live performance. He described his lack of activity over the previous six months, saying "reasons for this are too copious to enumerate here, but they do include being injured in a fall; then being involved in a high-speed car crash on a Los Angeles freeway (I have been in therapy for my back for the past four months); and, in the past year [2016] alone, dealing with the deaths of nine (yes, nine) close friends, colleagues and family members." He continued, "This and other business factors have led me to some significant decisions, the first of which is that I am permanently retiring from live concert touring. [...] A second decision [...] is to sell my house and studio, leave Los Angeles and move back to New York." He also explained that, "I am not disengaging from music, just gracefully transitioning into my retirement years. The coming weeks and months will see the complete delivery of the piano improvs, along with a video of each, as well as work on some legacy compilations and a possible vinyl release. [...] 2018 will see a complete restructuring of Globe Music [...] and the Zealots Lounge". However, late May 2018, he announced:
Due to persistent demand since announcing my retirement from concert touring, I have decided to perform a one-off concert with a full band on October 7 [2018] - headlining the last night of ProgStock 2018 [...] I shall be playing the music of ‘UK’ with a virtuoso lineup of players
The band was with Marc Bonilla (ex-Keith Emerson Band; bass, vocals), Alex Machacek (guitar), Thomas Lang (drums). Jobson said this would likely be his last live performance. The piano improvisations were recorded in 2016 using a crowdfunding model (YouTube preview here).

There was a Jobson fan convention in Japan in Nov 2022. Performing were tribute band UKY, and Jobson joined them for a performance of "Caesar's Palace Blues".



1971-1979 The Band Years (Globe Music Media) was released Oct 2018; details in Yescography. The liner notes of this album announced subsequent releases:
1980-1989 The Solo Years
1990-1999 The Scoring Years
2000-2009 The Eclectic Years
2010-2019 The Retrospective Years
However, these have yet to appear.

UK
Curtain Call, the 2015 release of a 2013 live UK show in Tokyo with Eddie Jobson, John Wetton, Alex Machacek and Marco Minnemann, was remixed and remastered for a 19 May 2023 wider re-release. This includes Blu-ray and DVD discs, and Blu-ray Audio in 5.1 Surround Sound.

There was an abortive UK reunion project entitled Legacy. This project began life under the UK name, but then became a Jobson solo project, before being abandoned. Bill Bruford (percussion), Tony Levin (bass), Francis Dunnery, Steve Hackett and others, guested on 1999 recording sessions. While initially involved, Wetton ceased to be part of the project early on, with Aaron Lippert (UKZ) planned to replace him on vocals. Jobson described the concept: "We have taken on the daunting subject of the aftermath of Communism, or of any despotic regime, and the will of the people to survive." In Nov 2006, Jobson said:
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.

And:

But, truth be told... I ran out of steam. At some point, I'll see what I can retrieve.

Let me take this time to apologize to those who did support the project (for whatever length of time), for the disappointment of those anticipating its release, and even to John for my aiming too high and taking too long.


Asked in an Aug 2009 interview about whether we will ever see or hear the project, Jobson said:

I don’t know is the answer to that. I don’t just do things to get it out there and to try and sell records. I do things [...] to continue developing, exploring, learning and growing and trying to be an artist. [...] it gets to the point where I have to ask myself how cost effective is it for me to sit, for even just two months, and pull all this stuff together to try and make something out of it when the music is fifteen or twenty years old and I've kind of moved on to other things. Even though it's interesting how many people are going to bother to buy it? Shouldn't my time be more focused on moving forward? So that’s where I get to a lot.

Having said that some of this footage should probably come out at some point because it's really cool [laughs].


He also said, "I've also got tons of film footage of everybody recording as well. Stuff nobody has even seen. I've got Tony Levin, Bruford, the choir and everybody." To a fan after the 23 Apr 2011 UK show, Jobson said the Legacy material would not be released as an album, but that he is likely to use bits from it, commenting that he had some interesting pieces with Bruford and Hackett. In an Aug 2011 interview, he said:

The process of creating is where my passion is; it is not necessary for me to actually have other people hear it. [...] I worked on the “Legacy” album for years, on and off, and at some point I felt I had got out what I needed to get out of it and I didn’t feel the need anymore to finish it. I had learnt a lot, I had some wonderful experiences, and that had been quite enough for me: going around the world to make it, conducting the Prague Philharmonic, working with the “Bulgarian Women” in a cathedral, singing my music; working in New York with Tony Levin; working in Peter Gabriel’s studio with Steve Hackett and Bill Bruford, filming everything as well – so I had even been learning about video and documentary making. [...]

I’d even written some Bulgarian poems in the archaic style of Bulgarian folk poetry. It led to me working with a professor of Balkan poetry from the university of Boston to create the poems for the Bulgarian choir to sing. People keep asking me ‘why don’t you release it’ or ‘will you ever release it’? The answer is NO, I won’t release it because I never took it to the final stage, the mechanical stage: sequencing the album, mixing everything, making a design for the album cover and getting it all manufactured, making deals with distributors, publishing companies, getting the albums in the shops, you know, that kind of stuff for me is fairly tedious.


Three tracks from Legacy did appear on Voices of Life, the Bulgarian Women's Choir's compilation—details in Yescography.

Archival/online/re-releases
In the 1980s, Jobson worked on a follow-up to his 1983 The Green Album, to be called The Pink Album, but the project was never finished. To a fan after an Apr 2011 UK show, Jobson said he had plans to release the album.

Phil Manzanera's 11CD 50 Years of Music box set, due 1 Nov 2024, includes all 10 of his solo albums, including his first two, Diamond Head (1975; including the 2 bonus tracks on the 2011 re-issue) and Listen Now (released as by Phil Manzanera/801, 1977; including the 4 bonus tracks on the 2015 Japanese re-issue), on which Jobson performed. (The latter album also features Francis Monkman, who wrote the basis of Yes's "The Ice Bridge".)

Jobson played on the 1975 album Mad Dog by the late John Entwistle (The Who). Mad Dog (including two single mixes as bonus tracks) is included on the 6CD The Ox Box Set (Edsel Records), released 10 May 2024.

UK's "Nevermore" appeared on on Bill Bruford's career retrospective 6CD box set Making a Song and Dance: see under Bruford for details.


Sidonie Jordan - Peter Banks' ex-wife, a.k.a. Sydney Foxx

In an interview around Jan 2018, Jordan described her current activities:

I am currently working with a very talented artist/producer/engineer named "Cade Roberts" in Oklahoma for TV and movie sync deals. We are also producing a track together for a wonderful Americana/Alt Country artist named "Edan Archer," and I hope to do more tracks with her and keep working with Cade. I also hope to continue working with Jez Larder from Skyline Studios in the UK, who I have worked with on and off for over 15 years.

[...]

I am planning a track with my old studio mate Ric Parnell from Atomic Rooster/Spinal Tap and am working with Mark Murdock (Cymbalic Encounters and Brand X) [ex-Empire] on some retro tracks he has written.

I presume the reference to Murdock was to Jordan guesting with The New Empire: see under Banks.


Paul K Joyce - orchestrations on The Quest. Website

In a Mar 2023 interview with Yes Music Podcast, Joyce said he was "getting ready to do an album of songs, again with orchestra and a band."

Joyce did the music for the 20-minute film "Land Mine", directed and written by Darren Statman, about a young man returning from Belsen in 1945 to his family home in Poland. The film was shown at festivals in 2022. The soundtrack, Land Mine (Original Short Film Soundtrack), was released digitally on 3 Mar 2023. The music was performed by the F.A.M.E.'S orchestra and mixed by Robbie Nelson.

As well as continuing to work in music, Joyce has now turned to writing fiction.


Gary Langan - engineer on 90125

Langan and JJ Jeczalik played 2 London dates 4-5 Jan 2023 as Art of Noise: Revision.



Alex Lasarenko - additional keyboards on Union

no current info



Tony
Levin - bass with ABWH and on Union. Homepage; MySpace page

Levin has a new solo album, Bringing It Down to the Bass (Flatiron Recordings), released 12 Sep 2024. Guesting on the album are Robert Fripp (ex-King Crimson), Vinnie Colaiuta (worked with Trevor Rabin), Earl Slick (worked with David Bowie), Mike Portnoy, Steve Gadd, Jerry Marotta, Gary Husband, L Shankar, Pete Levin (Tony's brother), Jeremy Stacey (ex-King Crimson, ex-The Syn), David Torn (worked with Bill Bruford), Pat Mastelotto (Stick Men, ex-King Crimson), Larry Fast, Steve Hunter, Manu Katché, Alex Foster, Dominic Miller, Markus Reuter (Stick Men), Chris Pasin, Collin Gatwood, Josh Shpak and Don Mikkelsen. An eponymous lead single was released 23 Aug 2024 with Katché (drums), Miller (guitar), P Levin (keys) and Foster (sax).

One of Levin's main project is Stick Men (YouTube), with Levin (Chapman Stick), Pat Mastelotto (KTU, ex-King Crimson, The Flower Kings; acoustic and electronic drums and percussion) and Markus Reuter (works with Mastelotto; U8 Touch Guitar, live looping). On 1 Apr 2022, the band released the 30-minute EP Tentacles, written and produced by the band. Tracks:
  1. "Tentacles" (6:39)
  2. "Ringtone" (5:57)
  3. "Company of Ghosts" (6:50)
  4. "Danger in the Workplace" (5:32)
  5. "Satieday Night" (4:57)
The band toured again in 2022. They released the 12-track Umeda (Live in Osaka 2022), recorded 14 Jul 2022, on 3 Feb 2023. The album was produced by the band, recorded and mixed by Robert Frazza and mastered by Lee Fletcher. They toured western North America Feb-Mar 2023 and then Europe later that year. They tour North America again in summer 2024.


Since 2018, Stick Men have digitally released a large number of official bootlegs through Bandcamp. So far, at least 5 of these can be downloaded for free. 20230305 The Parish, Austin, TX (Audience Recording), 20161014 Alte Schmelze, Wiesbaden, Germany (Board Mix) and 20180326 Colos​-​Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany (Audience Recording) were released 25 Sep 2024.

The Levin Brothers toured in 2022. There was a West Coast tour in Jan 2024 by Band of Brothers, consisting of the Levin brothers, Tony and Pete, and the La Barbera brothers, Pat and Joe.

King Crimson and related projects


King Crimson's final line-up consisted of Robert Fripp (guitar), Levin (bass, Stick, upright electric bass, backing vocals), Pat Mastelotto (KTU, ex-King Crimson, The Flower Kings; drums, percussion), Gavin Harrison (ex-Porcupine Tree; drums, percussion), Mel Collins (ex-21st Century Schizoid Band, worked with Chris Squire; saxes, flutes), Jakko Jakszyk (ex-21st Century Schizoid Band, worked with Dave Stewart; as "primary vocalist and secondary guitarist", in Fripp's words to him) and Jeremy Stacey (Steven Wilson, ex-The Syn, ex-Squackett, ex-Chris Squire, ex-Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds; drums, percussion, keys). The band's final years were focused on touring the back catalogue with no plans for a studio album, but they did play some new material live.


The band played its final dates in 2021 in North American and Japan. In a Jul 2022 interview, Fripp pretty much ruled out King Crimson ever touring again. In a Mar 2023 interview, Levin said, "when I last was with him [Fripp] — the tour ended in Japan [...] — we had a nice talk about the future and what might happen. His words to me were that he had no plans for King Crimson doing anything else, but he would let King Crimson speak to him if it chose to. I interpreted that to mean there are no plans and probably won't be anything else, but it's not impossible that there might be."

The band's 50th anniversary was to bring "Cosmic FuKc", a documentary by Toby Amies. The documentary includes a live performance done just for the film. The film focuses on the current band, but also includes interviews with Bruford and Belew. In the Sep 2020 interview, Jakszyk said he and Amies felt the film was basically finished earlier in 2020, but then Fripp did two more long interviews with Amies. The film, now titled "In the Court of the Crimson King", has been shown at film festivals, but Fripp said in the Jul 2022 interview that it has received little interest from streaming services, so he and management are looking at either their own streaming release or a DVD box set. There were select cinema showings on 19 Oct 2022 in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands and the US. There was then a streamed showing on 22 Oct 2022 in London with a live introduction by Fripp and a Q&A with director and band members. A 2-disc BluRay/DVD followed 11 Nov 2022 with the film, an early edited version of the film (23 minutes), a performance of "Starless" from the band's final concert in Tokyo, Dec 2021, and four trailers/shorts.

An 8-disc box set was then out 2 Dec 2022, including a 48-page booklet with contibutions from Amies, Fripp and David Singleton, plus photos from Levin and Singleton. Additional video content consists of "Tring: Live in the Studio" (7 tracks) and "Rock in Rio" (7 tracks), plus "Gentlemen of the Road: Backstage with King Crimson" (38 minutes). The last 4 discs are CDs with music from the film soundtrack and beyond, much previously unreleased.

Beat
Beat is a new band consisting of Tony Levin and Adrian Belew, both formerly in King Crimson, plus Steve Vai and Danny Carey (Tool), who are touring playing 1980s King Crimson material. They first announced 44 North American dates 12 Sep-8 Nov 2024, with a second set of 21 dates 18 Nov-18 Dec subsequently added. The project, originally with Vinnie Colaiuta (worked with Trevor Rabin) on drums, had planned to tour in 2020, although Belew said in a Sep 2024 interview that Carey was always his first choice of drummer (after Bruford). He explained how he first thought up the idea in 2019, originally wanting a King Crimson reunion. Both Fripp and Bruford turned down the idea, but gave their blessings for Belew to continue with the project. Opening night set: [SPOILERS—highlight to read] "Neurotica", "Neal and Jack and Me", "Heartbeat", "Sartori in Tangier", "Dig Me", "Model Man", "Man with an Open Heart", "Industry", "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part III)", intermission, "Waiting Man", "The Sheltering Sky", "Sleepless", "Frame by Frame", "Matte Kudasai", "Elephant Talk", "Three of a Perfect Pair", "Indiscipline", encore: "Red", "Thela Hun Ginjeet".

Other collaborations and sessions
Levin is part of Peter Gabriel's band along with drummer Manu Katché and guitarist David Rhodes. They were recording a new album, i/o, in 2021/2; Levin said in Sep that he finished his recording work for the album in May 2022. Levin plays on every track of the new album. Gabriel said they worked on 17 songs in a 10 day period. First single "Panopticom (Bright Side Mix)", with contributions from Brian Eno and Ríoghnach Connolly (The Breath; backing vocals), was released digitally 6 Jan 2023. This date was the first full moon of the year and a new song was released each subsequent full moon. Songs came in a Brigh Side and a Dark Side mix. The album was released 1 Dec 2023. The Bright-Side Mix made #2 in the UK midweek album chart, with the Dark-Side Mix at #47 (4 Dec). The album made #1 in its first full week in the UK album chart (8 Dec) and #99 in the US. It was also top ten in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Switzerland. The album came 4th in Prog magazine's 2023 critics' choice and 2nd in their readers' poll. The band had 22 European tour dates from 18 May-25 Jun 2023, with North American touring following. Rehearsals began late Apr. Opening night (18 May, Krakow, Poland) set: "Washing of the Water" (acoustic version), "Growing Up" (acoustic version), "Panopticom", "Four Kinds of Horses", "i/o", "Digging in the Dirt", "Playing for Time" (new version), "Olive Tree", "This is Home", "Sledgehammer", intermission, "Darkness", "Love Can Heal", "Road to Joy", "Don't Give Up", "The Court", "Red Rain", "And Still", "What Lies Ahead", "Big Time", "Live and Let Live", "Solsbury Hill"; encore: "In Your Eyes", "Biko".

In an Aug 2023 interview, with Yesshift, Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings, Anderson/Stolt, Transatlantic) mentioned a project led by drummer Doane Perry (ex-Jethro Tull) and keyboardist Vince DiCola (music for "Rocky IV", "The Transformers: The Movie") with him and Steve Hackett (ex-Genesis, ex-GTR, ex-Squackett) on guitar, and Levin and Leland Sklar on bass. Stolt is trying to get InsideOut to release the project.

Levin is guesting on the Sonic Elements Genesis tribute album: see on main page for details.

Levin has done numerous other sessions. His website lists many further session appearances.





Milton McDonald - additional guitar with ABWH. Website

He has been playing with Take That and Jeff Lynne's ELO: see details under Lee Pomeroy, with whom he plays.


Lou Molino III - drums in Yes feat. Anderson Rabin Wakeman

Molino appears on Trevor Rabin's solo album, Rio.



Eddie Offord - production and engineering on numerous Yes albums

Offord lives in South Carolina and had retired from the music business.


Lee Pomeroy - bass in Yes feat. Anderson Rabin Wakeman

Pomeroy is in Headspace with Adam Wakeman and Damian Wilson: see details below. He also guested on Wilson's solo album Limehouse to Lechlade (2021). He is on Rick Wakeman's prog rock album, A Gallery of the Imagination: see here. He plyas live with Rick, with 2 UK dates in Feb 2023 and more planned in 2024: see here.

Pomeroy is also a member of It Bites, who are working towards a new album.

Pomeroy (bass) and Milton McDonald (ex-ABWH; guitar) have been part of Take That's touring band since 2006. The Take That backing band then became the core of the touring band for Jeff Lynne's ELO from 2014 to the present, which includes, among others, Pomeroy (bass), McDonald (lead guitar, backing vocals), Iain Hornal (ex-Yes feat. Anderson Rabin Wakeman; backing vocals, guitar) and Melanie Lewis-McDonald (Milton's wife; backing vocals). Pomeroy, Hornal and some other members of the ELO touring band have formed new band Big Horizon: see under Hornal.




Pomeroy guests on Sonic Elements' IT - A Celebration of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: see details on the main page.

Steve Porcaro - additional keyboards on "Open Your Eyes" and Union. Official website

Porcaro released his debut solo album, Someday/Somehow, in 2016. The album was co-written and co-produced by Michael Sherwood (worked with Yes, Jon Anderson, ex-Conspiracy; Billy's elder brother). Asked about whether he and Sherwood were thinking of a follow-up in a Jul 2018 interview, Porcaro replied: "Yes, absolutely. I have my own studio; I can record when I want. Given the way the music industry is, I can't survive off my own music, but that doesn't deter me from making new music. Will it be an album or a handful of songs released one at a time? I don't know. I love working with Mike Sherwood [...] I can't wait to do more, and I think I'm writing the best stuff I've ever written." M Sherwood then passed away in late 2019.




In Dec 2022, David Paich (Toto, worked with Jon Anderson, Cher, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin) said, "I just did an organ solo for Steve P[orcaro] [...] He's working on another solo record."

Porcaro was in Toto, but the band has now reformed with a new line-up based around Steve Lukather and Joseph Williams, and without Porcaro. Porcaro has decided to withdraw from touring and supports Lukather's use of the Toto name.

He continues to do soundtrack work.


Graham Preskett - violin on 90125. Official website

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



Ryan Rabin - Trevor's son

Ryan Rabin played at the 2 Oct 2022 Alan White tribute show with his dad Trevor.

Captain Cuts (Soundcloud; Twitter) is a songwriting/production/remix team consisting of Ryan Rabin and Ben Berger. (They previously also included Ryan McMahon.) They have released several of their own singles. The latest were "On Air" by Captain Cuts, What So Not, Louis The Child & JRM, and "Are U With Me" by Captain Cuts, Mahalo & Dan Caplen.

2024 work includes producing and co-writing Arden Jones' "Hard Enough to Stay Alive" (2:33; video), which was released on the EP 'age tape 10' on 4 Jan; "Nostalgia" by NOTD and Georgia Ku (3:19; lyric video), released as a single 16 Feb; Aidan Bissett's "Planet" (3:06; video), the opening track on the extended version of his album Supernova, out 23 Feb; and "21" by Audien and Jason Ross (3:37; lyric video), a 26 Jan single.

They worked earlier with Aidan Bissett, co-writing and producing "Sick" (2:16; video; co-written with Rabin/Berger/McMahon, produced by Rabin/Berger) and "Out of My League" (3:01) from his 3-track 'Sick' single (10K Projects/Capitol Records), released 21 Jul 2023. They co-wrote the single "Hockey Fights" by Exbf ft. Slimdan, out 18 Jul 2023. They co-wrote (with Alexis Burnett/Jake Torrey) and co-produced (with Torrey) the single "Bandages" (2:34; video) by Lexi Jayde, out 23 Aug 2023.


Randy Raine-Reusch - world instruments on The Ladder. Homepage; News

No current info


Curtis Schwartz - engineered and mixed The Quest and Mirror to the Sky

Schwartz writes and performs his own music.

He mixed Steve Howe's Guitarscapes: see under Howe.


Michael Sherwood- backing vocals on Union; Billy's brother. Michael Sherwood's Tangled Web (Homepage)

Michael Sherwood passed away on 5 Nov 2019. One of his last recordings was an organ solo for the track "God from the Machine" on Cosmologica from Circe Link and Christian Nesmith.

He had been planning to release a 1990s project with Michiko Freemond called Milk, with the band also including Juliana DiMaggio Diaz, Fren Asken, Dean Chrysler Cameron and Robin Bissell.

Michael sang lead vocals, with Billy on backing vocals, on "All the Tears That Shine" on the 6-sing EP Forgotten Toys (duration: 29:06) from David Paich (Toto), released 2022. This is an alternative version of the song Michael co-wrote on Toto XIV. Paich explained in a Sep 2022 interview:
Only one song dates back to about 2006. I started the riff for “All The Tears That Shine” right after Toto finished Falling in Between. I didn’t get to writing the song until about four years later with Michael Sherwood. I overdubbed the music, essentially something totally new, and crafted it to the guide vocal he did and used it for my album. [...] We are honoring his passing by putting it on the album.
And on Billy Sherwood's contribution: "I reached out to him to see if he had any thoughts about doing a backing vocal. He provided the backgrounds on the last chorus and fills at the end too. It was very moving."

Steve Porcaro had talked of more solo work with Sherwood after Michael and Jimmy Haun had appeared on his 2016 solo album. Michael Sherwood and Haun had also been working on a solo album by Jon Anderson, with long-time collaborator Jonathan Elias, but the project stalled: see under Anderson for details.





Peter Sinfield, lyrics for "Run with the Fox". Song Soup on the Sea homepage

Sinfield appears to have significant health problems limiting future work.



Nikki Squire - Chris's ex-wife. FacebookTwitter, YouTube, Instagram

Nikki told one fan in Mar 2018 that she was "very involved in a writing a new album". "Gaia (Mother of Heaven)" was released on Bandcamp and as a video to YouTube in Dec 2018. The music was written by Nikki with the late Nigel McLaren and then re-worked by Nikki and Mark J, with a lyric by Nikki. The song is credited to N Squire/Mclaren, produced by Mark J/N Squire, mixed by Mark J, mastered by Kevin Metcalfe and with video production by Laurie Goodwin.

In May 2019, she was reportedly remixing songs from Coming Home, their second album, released 1994. There is also some unreleased Esquire material from over the years which could be released. Nikki was interviewed in Notes from the Edge #232, in which she discussed some other possible forthcoming projects.




Dr M Daniela Torchia - Tony Kaye's wife. Homepage

Torchia guested on her husband's End of Innocence album and Tony also mentioned in 2021 "starting a new album" with her: see details under Kaye.

Vangelis Papathanassiou - composer on ABWH and Keys to Ascension 2. Homepage (under construction)

Vangelis died on 17 May 2022. He had released Juno to Jupiter (Decca) in 2021 about the NASA mission Juno to Jupiter and its moon.

Adam Wakeman - Rick's son. Official site; MySpace page; Twitter

Headspace (MySpace page; YouTube channel) consists of Adam Wakeman (keys), Damian Wilson (ex-Rick Wakeman, ex-Jeronimo Road; vocals), Pete Rinaldi (guitar), Lee Pomeroy (ex-Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman, Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett, Gary Barlow; bass) and Adam Falkner (Rick Wakeman; drums). The band have been working on a third album in a trilogy with All That You Fear is Gone (2016) and their debut, I am Anonymous.

Wilson and Wakeman have also released a series of mainly acoustic albums. Their third album was Stripped, out 2019, with "stripped down Wilson & Wakeman tracks and cover songs". On 29 Mar 2023, Wakeman tweeted, "Writing and recording for the next Wilson & Wakeman begins…" That new album Can We Leave the Light on Longer? was released 12 Jan 2024 on vinyl, CD and digital. It was performed by Wilson (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Wakeman (piano, vocals, Hammond, acoustic & electric guitars, bass, percussion), with also appearances by Pete Riley (drums), George Hogg (trumpet) and an 18-piece choir. Tracks:

  1. "A I" (4:09)
  2. "Can We Leave the Light on Longer?" (3:16)
  3. "The Man from the Island" (4:57), Wakeman on lead vocals
  4. "Let's Talk" (4:20)
  5. "The Battle of the Bare Knuckle Fighter" (5:01)
  6. "Turn Your Life Around" (5:18)
  7. "Multiplicity" (3:18)
  8. "November" (4:53), Wakeman on lead vocals
  9. "Hero" (4:26)
  10. "Addlestone" (3:14)

The duo toured have a 14-date UK support 12 Jan-10 Feb 2024 in support. The 19 Jan show has sold out.

They played 14 dates in England & Wales in Jan 2019. They played the UK further in the summer and in Jan 2020. They were to play a European tour from Apr 2020, but this was postponed given the COVID-19 pandemic, although they did play two Aug 2020 dates. They played 14 western European dates Sep-Dec 2021. Wakeman was also playing songs from his solo album, A Handful of Memories, and "appearing" in his 'Milton Keanes' persona to play material from Jazz Sabbath (see below). They had 20 UK dates 25 Jan-5 Mar 2023.




Adam Wakeman is behind Jazz Sabbath, a project of jazz covers of Black Sabbath songs, with a comedy backstory. Their second album, Vol. 2 (Blacklake Records), was released Apr 2022, with a comedy promo video (with Dylan Howe on drums). The 1968 Tapes (Blacklake Records) comes out 29 Nov 2024; tracks:
  1. "Into the Void"
  2. "Spiral Architect"
  3. "Warning"
  4. "The Wizard"
  5. "Electric Funeral"
  6. "Supernaut" (3:54), advance track
  7. "War Pigs"
There was a European Jazz Sabbath tour in 2022. The band were Adam Wakeman (piano), Dylan Howe (drums) and Jack Tustin (double bass), who I think were also the line-up on Vol. 2. A full set from a German festival performance is available on YouTube. A live album was due to be recorded in Birmingham (26 Nov 2022) at a special show with guests. At the final encore of the Birmingham show, the line-up was expanded with the addition of Billy Watman (acoustic guitar, who was also the support act for the tour), Jon Spanyol (trombone), Justin Swadling (worked with Captain Sensible, Nik Kerhsaw, Bonnie Tyler, T'Pau, Tony Hadley, Rick Wakeman; sax) and dad Rick Wakeman (keys), as seen in this YouTube video shared by Watman.

Jazz Sabbath toured next with 17 dates Nov 2023-Jan 2024, with dates in Norway (3 Nov sold out), Romania, the UK (24 Nov sold out), Belgium (6 Dec sold out), Germany, the Netherlands and Greece. Those were with the same line-up. Two Los Angeles dates followed 11-2 Jun 2024 with Wakeman, Tim Landers (bass) and Tal Bergman (drums). There were then 8 Australian dates 20-8 Jul (with the 2 shows on 20 Jul in Perth and 2 other shows sold out), and I'm unclear on the line-up from hereon. They have 21 British Isles dates 8 Feb-9 Mar 2025. They then return to Europe with dates in Greece (14-5 Mar), Belgium (18 Mar), Netherlands (19-22 Mar) and Germany (23 Mar), and then play Cruise to the Edge 2025.

Some years back, Adam and father Rick were said to have a new piano album expected, but that has yet to appear. Adam joined Rick and vocalist Hayley Sanderson for a late Jul 2021 run at Ronnie Scott's in London. They then played 2 shows in Norfolk in Oct 2022: details under Rick. He also joined both for a short English Rock Ensemble tour in Mar/Apr 2022 and for 2 UK dates in Feb 2023: again, details under Rick. Adam and Sanderson also join Rick for a 21 Jul 2023 show: details under Rick. Adam also appears on a few tracks of Rick's Unreleased Demos Volume 1, with demos from the 1990s: see under Rick.

Adam played keys on a 23 Apr-2 Jun 2024 US tour with Uriah Heep, filling in for regular keyboardist Phil Lanzon. He plays on tour with Tony Hadley 2 Aug-7 Sep 2024, plus a pair of shows on 15 Jun. He also plays in the Super Vet - All Star Band at the Isle of Wight Festival on 23 Jun 2024.


Adam Wakeman (keys, vocals) is in Snakecharmer, with Neil Murray (ex-Whitesnake, ex-Company Snakes, ex-National Health, ex-Brian May, ex-Jon Lord, ex-Black Sabbath; bass), Laurie Wisefield (ex-Wishbone Ash, ex-Tina Turner; guitars), Harry James (Magnum, ex-Thunder; drums, vocals), Chris Ousey (Heartland, ex-Virginia Wolf; lead vocals) and Simon McBride (lead guitars, vocals). The band perform Whitesnake material and other songs from the members' back catalogues. They played the UK in 2017/8 and have released two studio albums. Those two, remastered and with Japanese bonus tracks, are joined by two live shows recorded in Milton Keynes (on 26 Jan 2014 and 17 Jan 2015) for the 4CD Anthology release, out in 2022 on Cherry Red (SOUM500COMP).




Benjamin Wakeman - Rick's son.

No current info



Jemma Wakeman - Rick's daughter. Twitter; SoundCloud

Jem is a songwriter, pianist and vocalist. She works as a videographer and designer for Surrey web design company 1minus1.



Nina (Wakeman) Carter - Rick's ex-wife: under Carter above


Tim Weidner - production on Magnification, mixing on Fragile DVD-A/Ultimate Yes. Sarm Management

Weidner has been working with Trevor Horn as an engineer, mixer, programmer and/or performer on a variety of projects, including Trevor Horn's Echoes: Ancient and Modern and livesee details under Horn.


Steven Wilson - remixing on the Panegyric series of Yes re-releases. Official website; official remixes Facebook page


Wilson remains busy as a solo artist as well as doing remixing for other acts. His most recent album as a solo artist was The Harmony Codex, out 29 Sep 2023 on Virgin, which has contributions from Ninet Tayeb, Adam Holzman, Craig Blundell, Nils Petter Molvaer and Nate Wood. Formats include the usual, plus a 3-disc box with the original album on CD, a CD with remixes/reimaginings, and a Blu-ray. In a 2022 interview with friend of the site Innerviews, he described the project thus: "It's much more epic and uncompromising. It's more complex and unpredictable to a degree. [...] It's going to maintain a lot of the musical vocabulary from The Future Bites, but it's going back into a more conceptual world, which is less about concise pop songs and more about experimentation. So, in the most simplistic terms, it might be somewhere between Hand. Cannot. Erase. and The Future Bites, but not like either of those records." Tracks:
  1. "Inclination" (7:15)
  2. "What Life Brings" (3:40)
  3. "Economies of Scale" [Wilson/Holzman] (4:17), first single (video)
  4. "Impossible Tightrope" (10:42)
  5. "Rock Bottom" [Tayeb] (4:25)
  6. "Beautiful Scarecrow" (5:21)
  7. "The Harmony Codex" (9:50)
  8. "Time is Running Out" (3:57)
  9. "Actual Brutal Facts" (5:05)
  10. "Staircase" (9:26)
The album made #4 in the UK album chart, and was also #1 in the UK Progressive Albums chart for Oct 2023. It was still at #13 in the UK Progressive Albums chart in Jul 2024 and rose to #12 in the Aug chart. The album came top in Prog magazine's 2023 critics' choice and top in the 2023 readers' poll, but it also came 9th in the readers' poll Biggest Disappointment category. Wilson was also 7th in the Best Vocalist and 6th in the Best Guitarist sections of the readers' poll.

His next solo album will be The Overview, described as "space themed", consists of 2 long tracks and is due early 2025. He will tour behind The Overview, and also playing material from The Harmony Codex, with 28 European dates 1 May-13 Jun 2025. The live band will be with Nick Beggs, Adam Holzman, Craig Blundell and Randy McStine (Porcupine Tree, In Continuum).

Wilson remixed Gentle Giant's Interview, which is being re-released on CD, Blu-ray and 180g vinyl. This made 9th in the reissue section of Prog magazine's 2023 critics' choice. He has also remixed ABC's The Lexicon of Love for a 40th anniversary Blu-ray edition: see under Trevor Horn, the original producer, for more.

Wilson did a new remaster for The Yes Album (Super Deluxe Edition), Fragile (Super Deluxe Edition) and a forthcoming Close to the Edge (Super Deluxe Edition): see details on main page.



Casey Young - additional keys on 9012Live tour

Young was working on a Greg Mathieson project, as he described in an Aug 2020 interview with Yes Music Podcast.

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