Legend is an overused term in music, and the world in general, but Jack Bruce was a genuine legend. Jack christened John was born on 14 May 1943 in Scotland, He took to music early and won a scholarship to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. While attending the college he played in Jim McHarg’s Scotsville Jazz band and when the disapproving college found out, they said You either stop or leave college, So I left college, remembered Jack many years later. Bruce moved to London and in 1962, he joined Blues Incorporated, led by Alexis Korner and playing the upright bass. The band also included organist Graham Bond, saxophonist Dick Heckstall Smith and drummer Ginger Baker. In 1963 Bruce, Baker and Bond formed the Graham Bond Quartet with guitarist John McLaughlin. Moving from the upright bass to the electric bass, he continued in the Bond band when Heckstall Smith joined after McLaughlin left. After two unsuccessful albums Bruce left to join John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers which featured guitarist Eric Clapton. After this brief stint with Mayall, he joined Manfred Mann in 1966 and played on their Number 1 hit Pretty Flamingo as well as playing on The Scaffold’s Lily the Pink. In July 1966 Bruce, Clapton and Baker formed Cream, with the band going on to become the template for just about every hard rock group that followed in their wake. Their debut album Fresh Cream included NSU, written by Bruce and also the B side of the single with I Feel Free, which made Number 11 on the UK charts, it was co written by Jack and Pete Brown. Cream’s second album Disraeli Gears released in 1967 includes Sunshine of Your Love, which Bruce co-wrote while Wheels of Fire opened with the fabulous White Room, written and sung by Jack. He did the same on four other tracks on the album. Jack Bruce’s singing gave Cream a distinctive vocal sound, and his undoubted musicality also elevated them from the potential trap of a more strictly blues based format that would have made them so much less interesting, even with their undoubted individual brilliance as musicians. When Cream split up in August 1968, Jack secured a solo contract with Polydor Records and his first release was the epic Songs for a Tailor in September 1969. It featured Heckstall-Smith, George Harrison and drummer Jon Hiseman and reached Number 6 on the UK album chart. Bruce then joined the jazz fusion group Lifetime, with drummer Tony Williams, guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young and recorded Turn It Over.
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28 июн 2024
