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Jack Bruce readies a Spring album
The beginning of March 2014 will see a new record by the legendary Jack Bruce, one the best rock singers and a bassist extraordinaire. The veteran’s been visiting Abbey Road for the last two weeks to...
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JACK BRUCE – Silver Rails
Esoteric Antenna 2014 Veteran bass-wielding warbler keeps it up and slides it in with resistance and revolution. He may look like a tired starling now, but Jack Bruce has always been a stoic, such a...
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JACK BRUCE – Monkjack
CMP 1995 / Esoteric 2014 No bass, no fuss: one of the maestro’s most unusual, and most beautiful, records sees ivory magic in the air. Although Jack Bruce has always been an experimentalist – the...
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Jack Bruce deserted cities of the heart
Arguably the most influential bassist in rock, Jack Bruce died today. One of a kind, a fantastic musician who brought his academic education and cello mastery to the blues and the most fabulous,...
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JACK BRUCE – Somethin Els
CMP 1993 / Esoteric 2014 Transitional work sees former Creamster cruising from experimental ’80s into a calmer decade. Both innovator and traditionalist, Jack Bruce found it difficult to sail through...
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JACK BRUCE – Cities Of The Heart
CMP 1994 / Esoteric 2014 A tuneful birthday bash of one of the most versatile musicians of the last century – with regular suspects and unusual pieces. t had been about a year after Jack Bruce’s...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS – Keep Calm And Salute The Beatles
Purple Pyramid 2015 Popular Internet meme’s translation into (mostly) unplugged readings of the Fab Four’s fodder. In no deficit of tributes to Liverpool’s finest it takes some guts for another one to...
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Jeff Berlin Pledges For A Jack Bruce Tribute
Both bass legends and brothers in arms, and the great late Jack Bruce were friends, and now the former is to pay a homage to the latter with a special project. “Songs For A Wailer!” that will see...
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Leslie West Checks His Sound On A New Album
There’s a few guitarists whose sound is easily recognizable, and Leslie West is one of those. His fat tone preceded MOUNTAIN and gained additional colors through the years, colors that are in play on...
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JACK BRUCE – Live At Rockpalast 1980, 1983 And 1990
MiG 2019 The tunes where there’s plenty gold for a life’s treasury: classic shows from rock polymath boxed for aural and visual relish. The only predictable aspect of Jack Bruce’s solo career was his...
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Alexis Korner Tribute Feat. Jimmy Page And Jack Bruce To Be Out
Alexis Korner passed away on January 1st, 1984, and June 5th of that year saw a small fraction of his friends and his band’s alumni pay homage to the godfather of British blues by staging a stellar...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS – Sunshine Of Your Love: A Concert For Jack Bruce
MiG 2019 A circle of friends celebrates life and music of the sorely missed stalwart of British blues scene. Five years after Jack Bruce’s untimely passing, his absence in still notable, but on...
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MANDOKI SOULMATES – Living In The Gap + Hungarian Pictures
Red Rock 2019 Delivering a paean to togetherness, cosmopolitan defector calls on stellar comrades to close ranks and create celestial noise. Leslie Mándoki has always been going against the grain –...
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JON ANDERSON – Song Of Seven
Atlantic 1980 / Esoteric 2020 Going for the one, singer of affirmative spirituality finds swift wings of freedom in simple joie de vivre. Perhaps, nothing spelled the end of the ’70s more eloquently...
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JON ANDERSON – Animation
Polydor 1982 / Esoteric 2021 Vocal avatar of wondrous storytelling comfortably inhabits the age of plastic to sing dithyrambs to electronic digits. It may not seem like this from today’s perspective,...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS – Legends Play The Beatles
Cleopatra 2021 Rock elite and kindred spirits try to put a new spin on perennial classics – with much gusto and mixed results. Covering The Fabs used to be a blessing an a curse. For musicians who...
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Jeff Berlin’s Tribute To Jack Bruce: Sammy And Geddy Guest
A bass institution unto himself and a stalwart of fusion scene, has always been vocal about to his creative and melodic influence, naming the great late Jack Bruce as an ultimate composer and...
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JEFF BERLIN – Jack Songs
Jeff Berlin 2022 Throwing his own creative zeal into the still-boiling cauldron of classic, and sometimes obscure, numbers, fusion stalwart calls kindred spirit to play and lay laurels at the altar of...
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