Phillips, Simon

The fourth chapter of Protocol, the project commanded by the legendary drum wizard, the one and only Simon Phillips, is another first-rate instrumental odyssey into the world of jazz-rock fusion. It's full of new freshness and "gems" of…

»Protocol III.« is a worthy follow-up to »Protocol II.«, with a few moments that, as you'd expect, give the new record its own special charisma.

Simply put, it doesn't get much better than this. And every show you catch with Simon Phillips and his Protocol feels like the best one you've ever seen. In a word: magical.

So many things happen on stage at once, enough to keep any music fan fully occupied, that the music simply carries you, and carries you, and carries you. It leads you into its own unique world of magic. The unique musical language of the…

Drum legend Simon Phillips is back with one of the most distinguished albums the jazz rock fusion universe has ever produced. Plain and simple: this is a jazz album that will hook you!

Nope. For the RockLine crew, catching Simon Phillips and Protocol II at Ljubljana's Cvetličarna a good two weeks ago wasn't enough! We hopped over to Gleisdorf near Graz, Austria, for another dreamy ear-anointing!

The legendary English drummer and his three American sidekicks, all virtuosos to be envied, wowed us first and foremost with incredible energy, stunning eclecticism and tight onstage chemistry, but above all with a big-heartedness that,…