Jazz Articles about Jack Bruce

Jack Bruce: Things We Like

by Sacha O'Grady
September 17, 2016

Jack Bruce remains one of the most enduring and fascinating figures of late 20th century popular music. By the age of eleven, he had already written his own string quartet, before eventually attending the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, from which he left at the age of seventeen having become disenchanted with his tutors and also due to the impoverished circumstances of his family. After a spate of travel he found his way to London, where he performed with a ...

Jack Bruce: L'ascension, Olivier Messiaen

by William Ellis
November 5, 2014

"It's called L'ascension by Olivier Messiaen who was a French composer I have loved for most of my life. Why I love his compositions is he shows that music has always existed. Humans only stole it. We borrowed it -but it's in nature. It holds the universe together, ask any skylark or ask any blackbird, they'll tell you." Jack Bruce: Band on the Wall, Manchester, 24th March, 2011 This One LP appears ...

Jack Bruce: Silver Rails

by Phillip Woolever
June 15, 2014

Jack Bruce and a sterling cast of supporting players roar down breathtaking tracks on this powerful production, offering what sounds like Bruce's autobiographical retrospective in an artistic, highly personal manifesto. The album seems to progress in stages, starting with British blues and abstract jazz, musical touchstones Bruce has based much of his catalog on. A rotating ensemble establishes middle ground between the bittersweet buzz of alternative genres, before rocking down the finish line to close with a bite ...

Kip Hanrahan: Desire Develops an Edge

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 12, 2011

Quando questo doppio album uscì, nel lontano 1983, divenne immediatamente un oggetto di culto per i pochi appassionati che conoscevano l'approccio filosofico di Kip Hanrahan, un straordinario produttore del Bronx che da sempre applica alla musica tecniche e intuizioni sostanzialmente derivate dal cinema. Kip è un geniale regista musicale che dipinge idealmente canovacci e scenari fascinosi nei quali sa poi calare alla perfezione una musica incantata e assolutamente originale che fonde elementi jazzistici con i ritmi cubani, haitiani e brasiliani, ...

Under Seven Moons: Bruce, Trower & Husband in Cologne, Germany Feb. 26, 2009

by Phillip Woolever
March 10, 2009

Jack Bruce, Robin Trower, Gary Husband Die Kantine Koln, Germany February 26, 2009

Music, like many of life's other great personalized pleasures (romance, fine dining, etc.), must often be considered in stages: immediate sensation, subsequent impact, lingering perception--each has a vital role in determining how chosen delicacies play out in the taste buds of long-term memory.

So it was in Cologne with the return of Jack Bruce, Robin Trower, and Gary Husband. ...

Jack Bruce: Shadows In The Air

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 2001

Bassist/composer/vocalist Jack Bruce has undoubtedly led a storied musical career. During his days with the power trio “Cream”, the bassist along with guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker offered novel perspectives on how to incorporate virtuosity into rock-based elements while also melding jazz-style improvisation with blues-drenched motifs deemed suitable for radio airplay. With Shadows in The Air, Bruce surges into refreshingly new terrain, as his somewhat enviable legacy continues to unfold after well-known stints with the ground breaking “Tony ...