Results for "Jack Bruce"

Various: Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)

by Chris May
July 2, 2021

As British jazz in 2021 reaches domestic and international audiences of unprecedented size, so record companies are being emboldened to open up their archives and reissue long-buried treasures. So, too, are new labels being formed to make available recordings which have not previously been released, but which have survived in the tape libraries of the musicians ...

Mike Taylor: Trio, Quartet & Composer Revisited

by Chris May
May 13, 2021

Historical context: Extracts from the diary of Ron Rubin, one of two bassists, the other being Jack Bruce, on Mike Taylor's Trio (Lansdowne, 1967).... “Saturday 18th February 1967. UFO, Tottenham Court Road. 'Giant Sun Trolley' Happening, opposite the Soft Machine etc. Mike spent the evening lying comatose, rigid and immobile in the middle of ...

The First Generation 1965-1974

by John Kelman
March 18, 2021

What do guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jon Mark, Harvey Mandel and Freddy Robinson, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalists John Almond, Ray Warleigh, Alan Skidmore, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Red Holloway and Ernie Watts, bassists John McVie, Jack Bruce, Andy Fraser, Tony Reeves, Stephen Thompson and Larry Taylor, drummers Mick Fleetwood, Keef Hartley, Aynsley Dunbar, Jon Hiseman and Collin ...

Zakir Hussain: The Best Jazz / Crossover Albums

by Ian Patterson
March 4, 2021

Zakir Hussain turned 70 on March 9th. In an unparalleled career, which began in earnest aged 7, the man widely acclaimed as the world's greatest tabla player has played with the giants of both Indian classical music and jazz. It is hard to think of another musician who has straddled both worlds to such a prominent ...

Group Sounds Four & Five: Black & White Raga

by Chris May
January 31, 2021

So seismic were the eruptions of British pop and rock in the mid 1960s, along with the effusive chronicling which accompanied them, that the parallel fecundity of the country's jazz scene was widely overlooked then and has been largely forgotten since. Contemporary media coverage was practically non-existent except on those occasions when a musician got busted. ...

Goodbye Tour Live 1968

By Cream

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: White Room; Politician; Crossroads; Sunshine Of Your Love; Spoonful; Deserted Cities Of The Hear; Passing The Time; I’m So Glad. CD 2: Introduction by Buddy Miles; White Room; Politician; I’m So Glad; Sitting On Top Of The World; Crossroads; Sunshine Of Your Love; Traintime; Toad; Spoonful. CD 3: White Room; Politician; I’m So Glad; Sitting On Top Of The World; Sunshine of Your Love; Crossroads; Traintime; Toad; Spoonful. CD 4: White Room; Politician; I’m So Glad; Sitting On Top Of The World; Crossroads; Toad; Spoonful; Sunshine Of Your Love; Steppin’ Out.

Cream: Goodbye Tour Live 1968

by Doug Collette
March 14, 2020

Goodbye Tour Live 1968 is a snapshot of Cream's adieu to the world, but a panoramic one nonetheless. Housed in a glossy nine and a half-inch by ten slipcase boasting a group photo identical to its namesake title, the inlay with four CD's accompanies a sixty-six page book wherein factual and passionate prose from David Fricke, ...

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Jack Bruce

Born: May 14, 1943

JACK BRUCE. The composer, the singer, the multi-instrumentalist, the Legend. Hailed as one of the most powerful vocalists and greatest bassists of his time, his improvisational skill and utterly unique, free-spirited approach to composition and performance would forever change electric music. His pioneering, full-toned, free-wheeling playing on the electric bass revolutionised the way the instrument is used and influenced the playing of countless bassists to today, including Sting and Jaco Pastorius. His work with bands such as Cream and the Tony Williams Lifetime, as well as his solo material, unlocked the doors to the pent-up energy of a new approach to the art of sound, breaking the barriers of tradition and creating a kind of music that had never been heard. Jack was born to musical parents in the shipbuilding city of Glasgow, Scotland on 14 May 1943

Pete Brown: White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns, Part 2

by Duncan Heining
January 26, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 1966 was an important year in British popular music. Bob Dylan, performing with the Hawks, was booed for “going electric" at Manchester Free Trade Hall. The Rolling Stones topped the charts for the first time with “Paint It Black." The Beatles, fresh from the John Lennon “Bigger than Jesus" ...