OMG! Our music heroes keep leaving this world... Just a reminder how old we are....
OMG! Our music heroes keep leaving this world... Just a reminder how old we are....
Very sad news. What a legend. Played with Jon Anderson, Soft Machine and so many other "un-in-the-spotlight" bands/artists that it's almost a shame it might take his death for (hopefully) people to stretch their ears and discover his true genius. Nothing against the great Cream of course, but his work with John McLaughlin, Cobham etc. was mind blowing. RIP JACK BRUCE. You will be missed.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
^Agreed, an artist who it was worth following. I love his vocals on the non-album Tony Williams' Lifetime 'One Word'- marvellous stuff! And if you want to hear jazz-rock at its absolute, ferocious best, try 'Vuelta Abajo' with him, John McLaughlin, Larry Young and Tony Williams blasting away.
One thing I always found funny is he even made that Cream Falstaff beer commercial sound good!
Sad news. I didn't know he was ill. RIP Jack Bruce
This is awful!
One of my favorite vocalists, bassists & composers.
RIP to imo one of rock's true legends. I'm really bummed.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
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Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
RIP
I don't have any of his solo stuff but I have 3-4 albums with him, Cream, Robin Trower, West Bruce Laing, Gov't Mule. Yeah, he was great, and a very important figure in the evolution of heavy rock.
We are totally heartbroken here at Esoteric. Jack was a truly lovely guy, amusing, astute and very strong on social justice. He same from a poor background in a Glasgow tenement block and never forgot his roots. Very proud to have released Silver Rails , his final solo album in March 2014 as well as a great deal of other solo material. Jack was so much more than just Cream and he genuinely loved performing. He was indeed a legend and will be very much missed. RIP Jack, the one and only.
Wow Was just listening to Seven Moons Live with Trower and Gary Husband.
One of the truly great white blues singers of all time.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Is it my imagination or has there beena big number of famous musicians passing away over the last couple of months? Or perhaps it's just that I'm spending more time on PE and getting all the news straight up.
words fail
RIP, Jack
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
RIP! Totally bummed to hear of his passing. He has looked frail since that kidney transplant about ten years ago so in a way I guess the news isn't a shock. Still, we just lost one of the BIGGIES of rock bass. He was a great composer too, an all around musician and visionary. And that operatic tenor he had, WOW! One of the best singers ever. And to play bass while singing- a real inspiration for thousands for sure. RIP Jack, you changed the field you were in forever. Few of us can expect such an enduring legacy as I am sure you will have. I absolutely love the music he did with Cream and solo. Damn..
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I've actually just been trying to investigate his solo music recently.
He was a biggie - RIP
In that Harmony Illustrated Guide to Rock they referred to him as "guvnor bass player Jack Bruce." I never knew what they meant. Did it just mean distinguished, or was he in a band called Guvnor or what?
^British slang really, meaning 'the boss'. Hard to argue with that.
Only this Thursday we lost Alvin Stardust, who was a big British pop star in the mid 70s. Sadly we are inevitably going to lose a lot of greats over the coming years. But the music will never die and will continue to live- I hope there's enough like me who will keep it going!
I had the distinct honor of working with him on the "Question of Balance" album project in the early 90's I believe. Absolutely genius talent but so tortured by his various demons. RIP Jack.
Check out this bass
Or the live tracks on Cream album Goodbye
But his voice was magical. I heard him live in a concert with Michael Mantler - this: "The School of Understanding ("sort-of-an-opera") had its première in August 1996 at Arken, the new Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. Participants included singers Jack Bruce, Mona Larsen, Susi Hyldgaard, John Greaves, Don Preston, Karen Mantler, Per Jørgensen, and Robert Wyatt."
Wyatt was not there, but Jack walked out in the audience singing, one meter from me. It was stellar magic. The others were good, but ...
I remember him as a very versatile musician. He sang an operatic kind of vocal in German, in one of Michael Mantler's albums, 'Many Have No Speech'. Another very interesting album Jack played on, is Mark Nauseef/Miroslav Tadic - The Snake Music. Jack performed two songs there, Rope Ladder and The Wind Cries Mary - a haunting cover of Hendrix song.
So sad. Words cannot express the loss. Rest in peace, Jack Bruce.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
A short(too short) clip of Jack Bruce playing the hell outa the double bass. With Dick Heckstall-Smith on sax and the great Jon Hiseman on drums.
Out-fucking-standing.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
This song seems appropriate. The fact that for years I thought this song had a choir until reading the credits and realizing this was all Bruce's singing says a lot about his musical reach. With his great piano work and vocal arrangements, this criminally underrated track should be one of the most famous ever penned.
He was more than a great bass player and great singer. He was a monster composer with unique visions. At his best, he moved my soul in a manner which few others have.
Although not exactly surprising, this is very sad. Amazing musician with IMMENSE influence, and no "prog" musician could ever even come near to touch his overall importance.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Wow! Very sad news indeed. I loved Cream in my teenage years, and also immensely enjoyed their excellent 2005 reunion. Classic Rock has lost another master musician. Hope he's resting in peace and jamming with his old music peers from his generation on the other side.
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