Jack Bruce - Live At The MilkyWay '2010 / 2023

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Surge (02:47)
2. Out Into The Fields (05:32)
3. 52nd Street (09:36)
4. Heartquake (07:05)
5. This Anger's A Liar (09:29)
6. Sunshine Of Your Love (09:39)
7. Milonga (06:53)
8. Windowless Rooms (15:43)
9. Dark Heart (08:33)
10. White Room (10:58)
11. We're Going Wrong/Politician (19:11)
12. 52nd Street Encore (10:38)


 Read moreBruce's most famous songs were, in essence, blues tunes --
"Sunshine of Your Love," "Strange Brew," "Politician," "White Room" -- and they
were ones he penned for Cream, the legendary blues-rock trio he formed with
drummer Ginger Baker and guitarist Eric Clapton in July 1966. Baker and Bruce
played together for five years before Clapton came along, and although their
trio only lasted until November 1968, the group is credited with changing the
face of rock & roll and bringing blues to a worldwide audience. Through their
creative arrangements of classic blues tunes like Robert Johnson's "Crossroads,"
Skip James' "I'm So Glad," Willie Dixon's "Spoonful," and Albert King's "Born
Under a Bad Sign," the group helped popularize blues-rock and led the way for
similar groups that came about later on, like Led Zeppelin.

Bruce was born May 14, 1943, in Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. His father
was a big jazz fan, and so he included people like Louis Armstrong and Fats
Waller among his earliest influences. He grew up listening to jazz and took up
bass and cello as a teen. After three months at the Royal Scottish Academy of
Music, he left, disgusted with the politics of music school. After traveling
around Europe for a while, he settled into the early blues scene in 1962 in
London, where he eventually met drummer Ginger Baker. He played with British
blues pioneers Alexis Korner and Graham Bond before leaving in 1965 to join John
Mayall's Bluesbreakers, whose guitarist was Eric Clapton. This gave him time to
get his chops together without having to practice. With Manfred Mann, who he
also played with before forming Cream, Bruce learned about the business of
making hit songs.

Cream's reputation for long, extended blues jams began at the Fillmore in San
Francisco at a concert organized by impresario Bill Graham. Bruce later realized
that Cream gave him a chance to succeed as a musician, and admitted that if it
weren't for that group, he might never have escaped London. After Cream split up
in November 1968, Bruce formed Jack Bruce & Friends with drummer Mitch Mitchell
and guitarist Larry Coryell. Recording-wise, Bruce took a different tack away
from blues and blues-rock, leaning more in a folk-rock direction with his solo
albums Songs for a Tailor (1969), Harmony Row (1971), and Out of the Storm
(1974).

In 1970 and 1971, he worked with Tony Williams Lifetime before putting together
another power trio with guitarist Leslie West and drummer Corky Laing in 1972,
simply called West, Bruce & Laing. After working with Frank Zappa on his album
Apostrophe in 1974, Bruce was at it again in 1975 with the Jack Bruce Band,
whose members included keyboardist Carla Bley and guitarist Mick Taylor. Back on
the road in 1980 with Jack Bruce & Friends, the latter version of the group
included drummer Billy Cobham, keyboardist David Sancious, and guitarist Clem
Clempson, formerly of Humble Pie. In the early '80s, he formed another trio,
B.L.T., this time with guitarist Robin Trower, before working with Kip Hanrahan
on his three solo albums. Bruce's bluesiest albums include all of his work with
Cream, the albums B.L.T. and Truce with Trower, some of his West, Bruce & Laing
recordings, and several of his albums from the 1980s and early '90s. These
include Willpower (PolyGram, 1989); A Question of Time (Epic Records, 1989),
which includes guest performances by Albert Collins, Nicky Hopkins, and Baker;
as well as his CMP Records' live career-retrospective album recorded in Cologne,
Germany, Cities of the Heart (1993).

Bruce released Monkjack in 1995, an album of his jazz piano compositions that he
performed with organist Bernie Worrell, issued on CMP. Bruce recorded the fierce
Shadows in the Air in 2001 with a new band called the Cuicoland Express that
included Vernon Reid, Worrell, and Robby Ameen, and guest artists Eric Clapton
and Dr. John for the CMC International/Sanctuary imprint. Bruce reunited with
Robin Trower for 2008's Seven Moons, released on Evangeline Records, following
it with Seven Moons Live a year later in 2009.

In 2010, Bruce joined the Tony Williams Lifetime Tribute Band with Reid,
organist John Medeski, and drummer Cindy Blackman, and toured in the late part
of that year and in early 2011 to sold-out performances and rave reviews. Also
in 2011, Pledge Music, a company that pairs fans and artists to fund projects,
released Jack Bruce and the Cuicoland Express Live at the Milky Way, from a 2001
concert in Amsterdam. The high-quality recording was provided by Bruce's
daughters, who designed the cover as well. The Lifetime Tribute Band's tour had
been so successful that the group renamed itself Spectrum Road and entered the
studio. They emerged with a self-titled album that featured covers of Lifetime
material and originals. In 2013, Bruce reconvened the rhythm section under his
name for the album Silver Rails (with Robin Trower, Phil Manzanera, Uli Jon
Roth, and Bernie Marsden alternating in the guitar chair). It was released in
March of 2014. Just seven months later, however, he died at his Suffolk home
from liver disease. © Richard Skelly



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