Jack Bruce RIP @ 71

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Just flashed up on the BBC website that Jack Bruce has passed..."at his home in Suffock surrounded by his family"


The Guardian...

"Jack Bruce, best known as one third of
Cream, has died of liver disease. In a
statement issued by his family on
Saturday, his family said: ““It is with
great sadness that we, Jack’s family,
announce the passing of our beloved
Jack: husband, father, granddad, and all
round legend. The world of music will
be a poorer place without him but he
lives on in his music and forever in our
hearts.”

Bruce played bass, sang and was the
principal songwriter in Cream, but even
leaving aside that group, in which he
played with Eric Clapton and Ginger
Baker, his CV reads like a
comprehensive guide to the British
blues boom, with spells in Alexis
Korner’s Blues Inc, the Graham Bond
Organisation, John Mayall’s
Bluesbreakers and Manfred Mann..."


BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

R.I.P Jack

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cream-bassist-jack-bruce-dead-at-71-20141025

Thanks for bringing this to our attention Bluesie

(Unless Jez takes this on it won't be mentioned JB played free jazz in the 60s too)

[zola]

Escalator Over The Hill. I think Jack's health was one of the drivers behind the Cream reunion concerts in 2005. A now or never kind of thing.

[Beef Oven!]

Oh no, oh no - this is terrible.

[cloughie]

Oh no, oh no - this is terrible.

Indeed, Beefy - he was a genius - I often felt we only saw the tip of a great iceberg - what could he and should he have achieved.

RIP Jack

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Indeed, Beefy - he was a genius - I often felt we only saw the tip of a great iceberg - what could he and should he have achieved.

RIP Jack

I saw him quite a few times with Graham Bond (tense) and again once with Cream (Corn Exchange Bristol) in the 60s. The Bond madness even gave me a lift post gig when they were looking for a party. Any party. I still have the white hair.

The "Mike Taylor Trio" album from 67 is a Brit jazz gem. Jack B on the majority of tracks as the harmony is streeeeeetched.

RIP.

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

Not jazz but I don't care...he's free now...

[charles t]

Saw Jack Bruce with Larry Coryell and Mitch Mitchell...Group definitely was 'burnin' that night.

Three tremendous musicians transcending categories.

[johncorrigan]

So sad to hear about Jack Bruce's passing - such a great musician, singer and songwriter.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

There is a wonderfull clip on Utube of Bruce with Buddy Guy, Heckstall Smith and Buddy Miles. Late 60s with Guy at his peak, chez formal blue suit and tie in hippyland!

Bruce's bass very to the front - a bit busy for me but it works.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a life to celebrate

he once remarked on how he used to listen to the bass lines in Bach:

thank you Mr Bruce for the inspiration

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

From Richard Williams excellent Blue Moment blog obit for Bruce...

"The further out Jack got, the more compelling I
found him. When I saw Cream on their first go-
round of clubs, I couldn’t hear anything
interesting. For me, that didn’t change. But the
John Burch Octet of 1963: now that was a band,
especially if you were fond of Blues & Roots -era
Charles Mingus. They never released a record, but
just before he died eight years ago Burch gave me
a precious cassette of a couple of BBC broadcasts
they made.

With Jack on double bass, Peter “Ginger” Baker
on drums, Burch himself on piano, Mike Falana on
trumpet, John Mumford on trombone, Graham
Bond on alto saxophone, Stan Robinson on tenor
(depping for Dick Heckstall-Smith) and “Miff”
Moule on baritone, they played Bobby Timmons’
“Moanin'”, Oliver Nelson’s “Going Up North” (from
Afro-American Sketches), Jimmy Heath’s “All
Members”, Benny Golson’s “I Remember Clifford”,
Sam Jones’s “Del Sasser”, Burch’s own
“Nightwalk” and, best of all, Ginger’s wild
arrangement of the prison work song “Early in the
Mornin'”, first heard with the edition of Blues
Incorporated in which most of the octet also
appeared.

A couple of years later there was the amazing
album by the pianist Mike Taylor, Trio, on which
Bruce and Ron Rubin shared the bass duties:
sometimes together, sometimes alternating.
Taylor’s conception was that of an English Dick
Twardzik, abstract and cerebral even on
standards like “All the Things You Are” and “The
End of a Love Affair”, and Jack was the perfect
fit."

BN.

[Jazzrook]

His 1968 album 'Things We Like'(POLYDOR) with John McLaughlin, Dick Heckstall-Smith & Jon Hiseman is a neglected British modern jazz classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCDNdLx9LnM

[burning dog]

His 1968 album 'Things We Like'(POLYDOR) with John McLaughlin, Dick Heckstall-Smith & Jon Hiseman is a neglected British modern jazz classic.

Yes it's a brilliant album

[cloughie]

His 1968 album 'Things We Like'(POLYDOR) with John McLaughlin, Dick Heckstall-Smith & Jon Hiseman is a neglected British modern jazz classic.

Reminder to me to have a listen to it again!