zphage
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Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 25, 2014, 15:22
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It is with great sadness that we, Jack’s family, announce the passing of our beloved Jack: husband, father, granddad, and all round legend. The world of music will be a poorer place without him, but he lives on in his music and forever in our hearts.
http://jackbruce.com/
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1001realapes
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Re: Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 25, 2014, 15:28
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Oh shit !
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Deepinder Cheema
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Re: Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 25, 2014, 15:56
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this has come as quite a shock.
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IanB
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Edited Oct 25, 2014, 20:01
Re: Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 25, 2014, 18:13
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That's a shocker. He had that wonderful ability to make his instrument sound like a horn and a bass at the same time. He will inevitably be remembered primarily for Cream but he also opened the door to a lot of the stranger areas of jazz for rock listeners with Lifetime and his early solo records. Great singer too. RIP Jack. I guess those of us who bought records before Punk Rock are increasingly seeing heroes and even some peers pass on. Fuck.
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Moon Cat
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Edited Oct 25, 2014, 19:51
Re: Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 25, 2014, 19:51
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Sad news. Great bass player managed to sneak jazz into rock a bit.
I know Cream is the original super-group but I have a fondness for another super-group he was in more recently, Spectrum Road- it was a fusiontastic outfit featuring Vernon Reid amongst others.
RIP top bass bloke.
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spencer
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Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 25, 2014, 21:41
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I knew his health wasn't good, but when my mate texted me the news this afternoon it was 'oh SHIT'. A real shock. I hadn't seen him for over forty years, big mistake. Like Ian says, an ever increasingly frequent occurence for pre-punkers. Farewell trailblazer and master of instrument. RIP.
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Deepinder Cheema
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Edited Oct 26, 2014, 01:41
Re: Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 26, 2014, 01:41
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Richard Williams of MM and OGWT and now the Guardian had been reflecting since the news broke & was made official wrote a personal piece on his web notes
http://thebluemoment.com/2014/10/25/jack-bruce-1943-2014/#comments
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Stevo
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Re: Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 26, 2014, 13:24
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Wonder if this will mean any memorial releases?
Hoping it might lead to release of live stuff from around 70ish in releasable quality. Thinking particularly of Lifetime stuff. There was a Beat Club performance that wound up just being them appearing on the titles, it has been rumoured that their performance was either too long or too out for broadcast. Been hoping it might appear in the Lost Broadcasts series. Hope it survived.
Also audio from around then would be good. Not sure if there is anything recorded apart from the Newcastle set but fingers crossed.
He was also performing with a couple of supergroup lineups. So anything from there would be welcome. Assuming that an official release would have sound professionally remastered, if that's possible.
Stevo
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Deepinder Cheema
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Re: Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 26, 2014, 14:16
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The Beat Club stuff sounds most interesting. There person who might know is Colin Harper who I am sure would have looked into any John McLaughlin performances. If not then I'm sure he knows. There is a very good interview with Michael Leckebusch of Beat Club in the seminal book Vox Pop by Michael Wale pub Harrap in 1972. He seemed then a very committed individual who blazed a trail for getting this kind of music onto the mainstream media. Perhaps this is the reason why Europe got it better than the US and UK - or so my imagination tells me.
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Deepinder Cheema
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Re: Jack Bruce RIP
Oct 28, 2014, 01:02
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some thoughts by John Mclaughlin.
http://www.abstractlogix.com/news_view.php?idno=654
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