Jack Bruce
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Jack Bruce: Tales Of A Brave Ulysses
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 26 February 1977
"Jack's always been involved with these terrible bloody all-star bands. But now he's in an ideal position. He's older now and can surround himself with ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, September 2001
From Manchester's Twisted Wheel to the Royal Albert Hall: Jack Bruce talks to Johnny Black about the beginning and ending of the first supergroup, Cream
File format: mp3 File size: 23.9mb Interview length: 26 minutes 8 seconds Sound quality: ****
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Jack Bruce: Songs For A Tailor (Polydor)
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 6 September 1969
Bruce bridges the jazz-pop gap.... ...
Jack Bruce: I Want To Be A Musician, Not A Pop Star
Interview by Tony Norman, Top Pops, 25 October 1969
JACK BRUCE has had a fascinating career. I first saw him in the days when he played with Graham Bond. What a band the Organisation ...
The Heavy Burdens Of Jack’s Shoulders
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 24 January 1970
HIGH COURT Judges have often been heard to observe that pop stars have "grave responsibilities." However, they are usually referring to suspected powers of influence ...
Tony Williams, Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin: Risk of a Lifetime
Profile and Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970
JACK BRUCE described Lifetime as simply the best band in the world. Jack, as quarter of Lifetime, might of course be a little biased. But ...
Jack Bruce: Royal Court, London
Live Review by Karl Dallas, The Times, 3 November 1970
WHEN JACK BRUCE played bass guitar with Cream, he extended what had until then been the instrument's limited range into nearly equal status with Eric ...
Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1971
LONDON – It's the universal riff. When some kid in Laguna Beach finally stops driving all the neighbors crazy with it, a kid sitting by ...
Jack Bruce, Roy Harper, King Crimson: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971
AFTER THE confusion that reigned at Weeley, it has become quite apparent that you don't need every band that lives, breathes and plugs in to ...
King Crimson/Roy Harper/Jack Bruce: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 September 1971
JUDGING BY THE weather this week, the title of Saturday's free concert in Hyde Park – "Farewell To Summer" – was a little premature. And ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Rolling Stone, 16 September 1971
JACK BRUCE GOT a bad deal. Following the break-up of Cream Bruce was the only member of the band to emerge with less than "superstar" ...
Profile by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 5 May 1973
CREATOR OF one of rock's two most distinctive bass styles (the other being Paul McCartney's), Jack Bruce has, during the course of a long and ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 July 1973
JACK BRUCE has turned full circle. The best bass guitarist Britain has produced, whose career has merged jazz and rock to the extent where he ...
Audio transcript of interview by Karl Dallas, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1975
This is a transcript of Karl's interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Rolling Stone, 27 February 1975
JACK BRUCE WAS one of the most outstanding and at the same time least recognized talents to appear on the transatlantic rock scene in the ...
Jack Bruce Soars Beyond Cream And Out Of The Storm
Interview by Ron Ross, Circus Raves, March 1975
FROM A REMOTE retreat in rural England, surrounded by his books and the stillness of nature, Jack Bruce pondered the challenge of his fourth solo ...
Jack Bruce: Back on Harmony Row
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, March 1975
COMBINE CREAM, the Stones, and some avant-garde jazz and you've got this year's talk of the town. ...
Bruce and Taylor's Band of Misfits
Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 17 July 1975
LONDON – "I had three choices: give up completely, find a backing group to play my songs mechanically, or become a sideman playing bass in ...
Chris Spedding: This Guitar for Hire
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, April 1977
Sessionman asserts himself ...
Will Cream Stand the Test of Time?
Retrospective and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 28 April 1977
MAYBE YOU'VE seen the recent full-page spreads, and maybe you've wondered. In January, RSO Records reissued nine landmark rock 'n roll albums. "Collector's Editions," the ...
Jack Bruce: Jack's Sound of 1979
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 24 February 1979
IT SEEMED like the end of an era when we discovered, last week, that Jack Bruce and the Robert Stigwood Organisation have parted company. ...
Profile by Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 13 February 1990
If you were born November 26, 1968, the day Cream gave its farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall, let me stand you a legal ...
BBM: Around The Next Dream (Virgin)/Ginger Baker Trio: Going Back Home (Atlantic)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1994
WHOEVER FIRST claimed that guitar, bass and drums are the "three primary colo(u)rs of rock and roll" ignored the possibility that some of us might ...
Sound Your Funky Horn: Jack Bruce
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, May 1995
Jack Bruce selects the high points of his illustrious career. ...
Review by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, October 1995
IF I WERE CASTAWAY alone on a desert island, my luxury item would be Jack Bruce's voice — the perfect backdrop to the many moments ...
AUDIO: Cream's Jack Bruce (2001)
Audio transcript of interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, September 2001
This is a transcript of Johnny's interview with Jack. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Jack Bruce: Songs For A Tailor/Harmony Row
Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, April 2003
SEVERAL BLUE moons ago us MOJO contributors were asked to provide the mag with a list of our 30 all-time favourite LPs. My only real ...
Ultimate Power-Trio Bassist Jack Bruce Steps on the Silver Rails
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 6 May 2014
HE'S BEST KNOWN to the average classic-rock fan for the scant time in the '60s, fewer than three years, that he spent singing and playing ...
What happened when these '60s artists decided to go solo?
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017
GOING SOLO IS an ancient musical tradition. Probably there was a Gregorian monk whose yearning for the spotlight made him think, "I can do this ...
Sunshine Of Your Love: A Concert For Jack Bruce
Film/DVD/TV Review by Tony Burke, Morning Star, 5 November 2019
IN 2015, A DAY before the first anniversary of his death at the age of 71, an all-star cast of musicians gathered at London's Roundhouse ...
see also Cream
see also West, Bruce & Laing
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