Yes, Yes is still around. Yes, Yes even has a new album on the way. No, Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman aren’t part of the band these days.
The standard-bearer of ’70s prog-rock, known for dense symphonic-rock suites on albums including “Fragile” and “Topographic Oceans,” returns Tuesday, July 12, with “Fly From Here,” the band’s first new album in a decade and its first with singer Benoit David, formerly a singer in a Yes tribute band, who took over for Anderson when Anderson was diagnosed with acute respiratory failure in 2008. (He has since recovered and has gone on solo tours.)
Yes would likely have been back sooner if there hadn’t been so much uncertainty about Anderson’s health, bassist Chris Squire says by phone from his home near Phoenix. Read more…
There is a video from Daniel Lanois’ band Black Dub that can be archived online which shows the band, as a trio, playing on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in 1993. At the time, the collective could have been playing on simply an experimental basis and gave musicians Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade and Daryl Johnson another chance to play together and write as a unit. When Lanois was introduced several years ago to the voice of Trixie Whitley, (he had been in connection with her family for a long time prior to the exchange) over a period of time after, Black Dub was somewhat resurrected and was taken to another level. It is her voice that defines the vocal passion and soulful energy found on the record and as a rising artist in the state of music that is of this current era, her trueness and honesty really resonate in the live sounding atmosphere of the record. Recently, Ms. Whitl 
