Jack Bruce

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep ta

[johncorrigan]

yep ta

Ginger Baker should get the resident slot on all those Grumpy old gits programmes you get on the box - boy oh boy is he one grouchy guy! I liked this programme. Loved the version of 'We're going wrong' from the programme - classic Cream. Also love the Childsong (I think it was called) about his son - beautiful and sad. He's a fine pianist and though the voice isn't as wonderful as it was, he remains a very fine vocalist.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

that juxtaposition has me a tad worried johncorrigan ...!!!!

i thought GB was a bit of a moaner as well, rediscovered that i never cared much for JB's singing and found Cream bombastic and noisy in the day .......

but Jack B is an interesting person and a tough one too ....

i loved his wry comment about benjamin britten ....

[johncorrigan]

Here's a page from Jack's website with some good tunes. I really liked Buddy Guy and Roland Kirk with JB doing Stormy Monday in '69. It's 6 or 7 items down the page.

http://www.jackbruce.com/2008/NewsAr...ewsArchive.htm

[Oilrig]

Gerry Rafferty tribute on Global tomorrow night - second hour of the show is given over to a repeat of the Celtic Connections show. Enjoy!

[Serial_Apologist]

I always thought Jack Bruce's many gifts were best served on his 1971 album "Harmony Row": as songwriter, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist. He was a highly individual harmonist. One one song on that LP - can't recall which at the mo - some repetitive piano figurations alerted me to the possibility that Keith Tippett had contributed to the session, but Keith told me no. For me, however, Jack's best ever singing was on "Escalator over the Hill".

S-A

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

He said: “Various things happened there, including being sexually assaulted by the composition teacher.

“In those days, that was something that you just didn’t talk about. You just kept quiet, but it really put me off. He was a friend or associate of Benjamin Britten. Say no more.”

Bruce, 68, was clearly uncomfortable speaking about the episode in the Sixties when he was studying cello and piano as second instrument.
He said: “I found it all very middle class. If you were working-class lad in those days, you just didn’t fit in. They would say you had no chance, forget it. At least, they were honest about it.”

hmmmm in Britain of yore to refer to predatory pederasts and the class system was to draw a distinction without a difference eh .....

[Globaltruth]

I always thought Jack Bruce's many gifts were best served on his 1971 album "Harmony Row": as songwriter, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist. He was a highly individual harmonist. One one song on that LP - can't recall which at the mo - some repetitive piano figurations alerted me to the possibility that Keith Tippett had contributed to the session, but Keith told me no. For me, however, Jack's best ever singing was on "Escalator over the Hill".

S-A

Well amen to that - I thought I was the only one on this forum who was partial to that 3 album set. His singing is excellent, there is some rather good 'World Music' and not a little out and out oddness. I posted a link to a site where you could download it for free on the Jass forum - via ubuweb I think..

[Globaltruth]

I think I flagged up a while back that Cerys was off to interview Jack Bruce.

This show is now being aired on Sunday 4 March 10-12

Apologies for short post and general low posting quantity lately, a tad busy...

Anyway, as a distraction, which one of these did JB play I wonder?