Much to his tutors’ ire, he also slummed it, joining Jim McHarg’s Scotsville Jazzband as their upright bassist and, when given an ultimatum to quit the group and return to serious music, he quit the college instead.He took his bass to London, aged 19, and joined the UK’s pre-eminent R&B band Blues Incorporated. After the group disbanded in 1968, he pursued a solo career and also played with several bands.
Graham Bond - keyboards, alto saxophone, vocals (7) Chris Spedding - guitar. His vocal technique wrote the rule book for progressive and heavy rock vocalists, his bass playing pushed a supporting instrument centre stage, and his innate sense of both rhythm and melody ensured audiences the size of which mere mortal jazz and blues artists could only play to in their dreams.Jack Bruce was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1942. Jack Bruce (1980) Automatic (1983) Willpower (1989) A Question of Time (1989) Somethin Els (1993) Cities of the Heart (1993) Monkjack (1995) BBC Live in Concert (1995) The Jack Bruce Collector's Edition (1996) The seven compositions dated back to his childhood days at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music — a remarkable fact in itself — culminating in the seven-and-a-half minute workout ‘Statues’. John Marshall - drums, percussion 1. Broadcast on Aug. 29, 1971. Jack Bruce. Recorded for BBC Radio 1 'In Concert' at the BBC Paris Theatre, London, England.

Relations grew so bad between the two that Bruce left the group in August 1965.After the Bluesbreakers, Bruce had his first commercial success as a member of While with Manfred Mann, Bruce again collaborated with Clapton as a member of Collaborative efforts with musicians, in many genres – In August 1968, before Cream officially disbanded, Bruce recorded a semi-acoustic In 1976, Bruce formed a new band (The Jack Bruce Band) with drummer By 1979, Bruce's drug habit had reached such a level that he had lost most of his money.
Jack Bruce … He was educated in music, certainly, but he was also naturally gifted.Jazz and the blues were, of course, the backbone of Jack Bruce, but the classical tradition is essential too. Bruce recovered and the band played summer concerts in Italy, Norway and the UK during 2009.

Where others mumbled and moaned, Jack could soar like a blues Caruso.

He was a musicians’ musician who inspired and astounded his fellow players. This promoted the release of the During the Scottish dates of the 2009 tour Bruce was presented with an In October 2009, Bruce performed at the 50th anniversary of On 14 January, at the 2011 North American Music Merchants Show, Bruce became only the third recipient of the International Bassist Award, a lifetime achievement award for bassists, after In 1982 he married his second wife, Margrit Seyffer.His funeral was held in London on 5 November 2014 and was attended by Clapton, Baker and noted musicians Scottish singer-songwriter and composer, bass guitarist of Cream Cream dates, he also played live with Subsequent concert appearances by Bruce were sparse because of recovery after the transplant, but in 2006 he returned to the live arena with a show of Cream and solo classics performed with the German HR (In May 2008, Bruce was 65 years old and to commemorate this milestone two box sets of recordings were released. The album remained unreleased until 1970 when it appeared as the follow-up to Just a fraction of Jack’s 50 years of recording can be sampled on his first posthumous compilation, “It Seemed Like Fate Was Always Leading Me To The Right Door”: Glen Campbell In His Own Words In 1975 he recruited former Given his involvement with so many different artists and collaborative projects, when considering Jack Bruce’s legacy it’s useful to focus upon his core catalogue of the 14 core solo albums issued under his own name (including those Band albums just mentioned).Continuity with Cream came via lyricist Pete Brown, who wrote the lyrics for Highlights? Jack Bruce was a Scottish bassist & singer-songwriter with a decades-spanning solo career that included albums like Songs for a Tailor. Profile: Scots-born musician, composer and singer, born May 14, 1943 in Bishopbriggs, Lanarkshire, Scotland, died October 25, 2014 in Suffolk, England. Jack Bruce & Friends .