Editing Gradually Going Tornado (section)

==Reception==
{{music ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/gradually-going-tornado-mw0000205407 |title=Bill Bruford: Gradually Going Tornado |first=Lee |last=Bloom |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]''
| rev2Score = {{rating|2.5|4}}<ref name="penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2006 |pages=185 }}</ref>
}}
In a review for [[AllMusic]], Lee Bloom wrote: "This is intelligent fusion -- intricately crafted, high energy, and technically impressive... ''Gradually Going Tornado'', if not Bruford's most successful effort, is certainly among the finest music produced in the progressive rock/fusion genre."<ref name="allmusic" />

The authors of ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' called the music "strongly melodic, freewheeling and built round Bruford's ringing percussion."<ref name="penguin" />

John Kelman of ''[[All About Jazz]]'' commented: "''The Bruford Tapes'' demonstrated a more raucous energy than Bruford's first two releases, but the follow-up studio album, ''Gradually Going Tornado'', proved that the group was capable of generating the same kind of power in the studio."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bill-bruford-the-bruford-tapes-and-gradually-going-tornado-by-john-kelman |title=Bill Bruford: The Bruford Tapes & Gradually Going Tornado |first=John |last=Kelman |date=October 14, 2005 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref>