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Jack Bruce, best known as bass player and vocalist for 60s supergroup Cream has died of liver disease at the age of 71.
Jack Bruce's music career spanned over 5 decades. He began his professional career 1962 as a member of Blues Incorporated with Alexis Korner, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Graham Bond and Ginger Baker. He continued on with Graham Bond in The Graham Bond Organization. Subsequently, Bruce had brief sojourns in Manfred Mann and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
In 1966, Bruce joined fellow Bluesbreaker Eric Clapton, and frequent former bandmate (and nemesis) Ginger Baker to form the primal blues-rock power trio, Cream - so named because they believed themselves to be the "cream" of the British music crop. Cream lasted a little over 2 years but left behind a highly influential body of work, including the classic singles Sunshine of Your Love, White Room and Tales of Brave Ulysses. They were particularly known for their live performances which featured long solos by all three members and songs often exceeding ten minutes.
Some post-Cream career highlights:
Songs For a Tailor, his first solo album.
Things We Like, a collaboration with John McLaughlin, Dick Heckstall-Smith, and Jon Hiseman.
Tony Williams Lifetime, again with John McLaughlin, as well as Larry Young and of course Tony Williams.
West Bruce and Laing.
Collaborations with Mick Taylor,
Robin Trower, Gary Moore and Ginger Baker, and Rory Gallagher.
Cream Reunion Concerts in 2005
White Room
Sunshine of Your Love
Jack Bruce, best known as bass player and vocalist for 60s supergroup Cream has died of liver disease at the age of 71.
Jack Bruce's music career spanned over 5 decades. He began his professional career 1962 as a member of Blues Incorporated with Alexis Korner, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Graham Bond and Ginger Baker. He continued on with Graham Bond in The Graham Bond Organization. Subsequently, Bruce had brief sojourns in Manfred Mann and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
In 1966, Bruce joined fellow Bluesbreaker Eric Clapton, and frequent former bandmate (and nemesis) Ginger Baker to form the primal blues-rock power trio, Cream - so named because they believed themselves to be the "cream" of the British music crop. Cream lasted a little over 2 years but left behind a highly influential body of work, including the classic singles Sunshine of Your Love, White Room and Tales of Brave Ulysses. They were particularly known for their live performances which featured long solos by all three members and songs often exceeding ten minutes.
Some post-Cream career highlights:
Songs For a Tailor, his first solo album.
Things We Like, a collaboration with John McLaughlin, Dick Heckstall-Smith, and Jon Hiseman.
Tony Williams Lifetime, again with John McLaughlin, as well as Larry Young and of course Tony Williams.
West Bruce and Laing.
Collaborations with Mick Taylor,
Robin Trower, Gary Moore and Ginger Baker, and Rory Gallagher.
Cream Reunion Concerts in 2005