The Jack Bruce Band - Spirit (Old Grey Whistle Test, 6th June 1975) 

Big, there’s so much Jack Bruce music to discover and dive into. I, for one, really don’t know his jazz fusion period. Thanks so much for sharing this.

Great, Jack Bruce, Mick Taylor , And Carla Bley:👏👏👏

Superb Mellotron by Carla Bley. Brilliant playing all round, in fact!

There was so much more to Jack Bruce's music than Cream/Clapton. These are some top notch players.I also like how respectful the audiences were back then.

Most of u wont know it... but that right there is Miss Carla Bley... one of the greatest musicians not only in rock history but in Jazz history... good for m.r Bruce. Clap clap

Bruce Gary is an underrated drummer. He is exellent in his playing.😘

Wonderful Jack Bruce! Wonderful band!

One of a kind! I hear shades of Zappa's apostrophe in Jack's Bruce's approach here. One of the very best Jack Bruce

This is an era long gone when talent and musicianship reigned supreme!

1967 - 1975 the best era of prog rock.

In the 70s the musicians are just so good

Love the warmth in the analogue equipment. Not one bit of digital tinniness.

love his green shirt with the white pants too , Mick Taylors beautiful sweater and cords also . Nice that he introduced them all !!! That should be done in all bands before playing . It shows great respect to his mates , and we get to know them by name . Win Win !

Carla Bley died today at the age of 87. R.I.P. Carla. And Jack. And Bruce.

This man recorded one of the greatest love songs ever "Folk Song" read the lyrics, listen to the song. 63 years old still have all his LP's. This is a great video. Great band.

Jack and his amazing band!

What a band! Strong sense of Mahavishnu Orchestra which is high praise.

Mick Taylor: best Stones guitarist ever!

Mick with Jack? I didnt know this even happened. Nice

A wonderful piece of music. Very tight arrangement. I didn't know Carla Bley played with Bruce. Her playing is sublime as are all the others

Wonderful memories, thank you. I saw this band in Manchester a few days after this TV broadcast, if I remember well, and met Carla Bley after the gig. Rest in peace, maestra!

Outstanding classic live performance and production ❤! Very enjoyable! Thank you for sharing 🙌🏽 😊

Jack Bruce war ein großartiger Sänger und Bassist

Jack Bruce was one of the best voices, making Cream, BLT and West Bruce & Lang stellar. ❤

Drummer is getting an amazing work out ! Awesome jam.‼️Im so glad we have youtube to take us back to all the things we remember growing up ! 💯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🫶🏼♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I love the Old Grey Whistle concerts the most! what a time trip , far out man✌🏼

Wow!! Great to see so much talent!

Amazing bass playing and bass tone

At least outwardly, Mick Taylor seemed to have survived the Stones just fine.

The principal melody is a adaptation of the Tony Williams song "Wild Life".

brilliant absolutely brilliant!

Those were some beautiful runs from The Rolling Stones maestro. Jack's nimble bass lines and drums full of life with a strange hypnotic brew of keys. Brilliant.

RIP beautiful Carla Bley

I saw Jack with this lineup at the Free Trade Hall in June 1975 and remember the OGWT show. I owe Jack something for my education, loved Cream and followed him into the jazz stuff and the chamber music settings of Becket with Carla Bley written by Michael Mantler. Too difficult for me at 13 but because it was Jack I persevered, having bought the records, and learned something about different ways of expression and, rare for me at that age, deferred gratification. Thanks Jack

Innovative as always, amazing, love Bruce's style of playing really cool.

This is FUSION NOT "Prog Rock" thats a marketing name from layer on. Fusion was the direction Jimi Hendrix was headed for in 1971. He' d heard Miles Davis guitar players and compositions and John MClaughlin's inovations and especially Carlos Santana. He had booked alot of these session musicians rhat Miles Davis used. Read, "Electric Gypsy," the best biography ever writen.

Mick Taylor was just too good to be in the rolling stones. They never had a real guitarist after him.

I’ve watched this thing a number of times! It’s so inspiring!

RIP Carla Bley.

Bruce was a great innovator himself no doubt but this seems to me to illustrate what an absolutely massive impact Miles Davis had on everything and everybody. You may recall this is the exact same period when Jeff Beck was also really into Jazz Fusion as well. I know Beck cited Miles Davis as an inspiration.

RIP Carla Bley

Killer cut and playing all around ! Only downer is the poor planning by the camera guys who got very little good footage of Jack Bruce...

Sounds Really awesome!!!

Abe Union pride bruse and Taylor together wow great to hear again such great memories thank you

Good stuff! Has a bit of Freeway Jam vibe.

rip carla bley

Amazing!!

RIP Carla who just died a couple of days ago, Oct. 17 at the age of 87.

mick taylor! great!

Love that unison playing between Leahy and Mick Taylor at the end. Marvellous.

The great and wonderful Jack Bruce

Καταπληκτική δουλειά !!! Κρίμα που δεν έζησε πολύ αυτό το σχήμα, που ήταν φτιαγμένο για την κορυφή.

It's great! Thanks a lot!! From BRAZIL!!!

There will always be a multitude of opinions about 'supergroups' and such; about as many as you have commentors...lol! But this, right here, is as super as it can get for me. The talent here is etheral and underrated, collectively and individually (just my opinion). Thanks so much for putting this up for those of us great unwashed who desperately needed this on an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday afternoon!

Can't walk into a shop today and find a Gibson ES of that quality. The really modest looking ES 335 of today sets you back by 5K.

Who knew Howard Stern was so good on the drums?!?!

Good music 🎶 sound 🎶 and naming band members 🎶

wonderful

Jack Bruce with John Surman and John Hiseman Trio was my favorite! Only some BBC-tracks on the Bruce 3-CD-Box, please try!

What a band, Jack Bruce, Carla Bley, Mick Taylor, wow!

The keyboard kills rock n roll any time they bring it in

That is awesome

The drummer!

Superb!

When bands played real music...real talent...Jack....what a singer bass player..

One of my favs of this time was caravan , they fused it a bit and were successful . Argent did it too, but they did it carefully . Jack followed a jazz path like ginger and were superb as pioneers for today , lets face it jazz is a hard road , carla rip made great music and did her thing ,bravo

Is that Mick Taylor from the Rolling Stones on guitar?? 🤔

Damn! Amazing talent

Groovy, man!

Wow drummer

I enjoy watching the dude on the keyboard is that called manual tune. Thank you.

Muchas Gracias i was just given a lot time to "Spirit" with Tony Williams

Nice

tbh this reminded me at the beginning of the Jazz Club sketches in the Fast Show. It improved greatly after.

Jack and Mick are legends. The other musicians are extremely good.❤❤❤

The "Bruce-nivishnu" Orchestra.

Thanks for posting

RIP carla❤

saw them on tour that year. jesus they were loud!

great bass hero!

No pressure on the drummer; composition of drummer Tony Williams. What a force that guy was. Got to see him once in a convening of West Coast players at Kimball's East in Emeryville around 1996.

Love this!

Loving this drummer's playing right now.

Carla Bley! Wow

I was a mere kid but I was fortunate to see the band at Birmingham odeon. Only really knew Sunshine of your love then, but I do remember being amazed by the drummer in the band. hOwever this was a very young Simon Phillips who took my breath away. Maybe soemone else out there was at teh same gig and also recalls him being the man behind the kit?

On Tony Williams' Believe It album, this is called Wildlife.

Check out Jack Bruce and friends, lem Clemson, Billy Cobham and David Sanchios saw them a few times a lot of jazz but one particular show at Ramapo College in NJ was a rip roaring rock show easily one of greatest shows Ive ever been to and I've been to many

And Carla on synth! cool beans

Great 🎸 band

I think it's high time I explore Jack Bruce's discography.

great!

I had no idea there was video of this line-up of Bruce, et al (I never looked…). Now I know what I missed seeing live. About six weeks prior to this OGWT show I had a choice to make with a friend. We were in Leuven and we could do one of two things: Bruce, Bley, and Mick Taylor(!!) in Brussels or Genesis in Antwerp. We chose Genesis which turned out to be a disaster. The show was in the local Velodrome, an enormous expanse of wood surfaces reflecting the sound in a hundred different directions. Couldn’t hear a fricking distinguishable note. Two weeks later Peter Gabriel left Genesis and the rest is history. Oh well…

Bruce Gary is great

Welcome to jazz club…Greaaat….Wonderfuuul

Oohh hang on, there's a very young Carla Bley! Heaving a rather nervous sigh by the looks of it ...she and JB date back to her debut album Escalator Over the Hill. Sadly we lost her last October.

Merci

Jack don't even need a guitarist, but he choose the right one

I just want to ask: why did this music disappear ?

I'll have to dig into Jake Bruce. Unexpectedly good

Tonny Williams' WILD LIFE. J.Bruce often played this song.

the drummer was something else, great.