from:amgalthough some may be tempted to call multi-instrumentalist, songwriter andcomposer jack bruce a rock & roll musician, blues and jazz are what thisinnovative musician really loves. as a result, these two genres are at the baseof most of the recorded output from a career that goes back to the beginning oflondon's blues scene in 1962. inthat year, he joined alexis korner's blues incorporated.bruce's most famous songs are, in essence, blues tunes: "sunshine of yourlove," "strange brew," "politician," and "whiteroom." bruce's best-known songs remain those he penned for cream, thelegendary blues rock trio he formed with drummer ginger baker and guitarist ericclapton in july, 1966. baker and bruce played together for five years beforeclapton came along, and although their trio only lasted until november 1968, thegroup is credited with changing the face of rock & roll and bringing bluesto a worldwide audience. through their creative arrangements of classic bluestunes like robert johnson's "crossroads," skip james's "i'm soglad," willie dixon's "spoonful," and albert king's "bornunder a bad sign," the group helped popularize blues-rock and led the wayfor similar groups that came about later on, like led zeppelin.bruce was born may 14, 1943, in lanarkshire, near glasgow, scotland. his fatherwas a big jazz fan, and so he credits people like louis armstrong and fatswaller among his earliest influences. he grew up listening to jazz and took upbass and cello as a teen. afterthree months at the royal scottish academy of music, he left, disgusted with thepolitics of music school. aftertravelling around europe for a while, he settled into the early blues scene in1962 in london, where he eventually met drummer ginger baker. he played with british blues pioneers alexis korner and graham bondbefore leaving in 1965 to join john mayall's bluesbreakers, whose guitarist waseric clapton. but in the one year he spent with graham bond, he recallsperforming upwards of 300 shows. this gave him time to get his chops togetherwithout having to practice. with manfred mann, who he also played with beforeforming cream, bruce learned about the business of making hit songs. the group'sreputation for long, extended blues jams began at the fillmore in san franciscoat a concert organized by impressario bill graham. bruce later realized thatcream gave him a chance to succeed as a musician, and admitted that if itweren't for that group, he might never have escaped london. after cream split upin november 1968, bruce formed jack bruce and friends with drummer mitchmitchell and guitarist larry coryell. recording-wise, bruce took a differenttack away from blues and blues-rock, leaning more in a folk-rock direction withhis solo albums songs for a tailor (1969), harmony row (1971) and out of thestorm (1974).in 1970 and 1971, he worked with tony williams lifetime before putting togetheranother power trio with guitarist leslie west and drummer corky laing in 1972,simply called west, bruce and laing. after working with frank zappa on his albumapostrophe in 1974, bruce was at it again in '75 with the jack bruce band, wheremembers included keyboardist carla bley and guitarist mick taylor. again on theroad in 1980 with jack bruce and friends, the latter version of the groupincluded drummer billy cobham,keyboardist david sancious and guitarist clem clempson, formerly of humble pie.in the early '80s, he formed another trio, b.l.t., this time with guitaristrobin trower before working with kip hanrahan on his three solo albums. throughthree and a half decades, bruce has always been a supreme innovator, pushinghimself into uncharted waters with his jazz and folk-rock compositions. bruce's bluesiest albums would have to include all of his work withcream, the albums b.l.t. and truce with robin trower, some of his west, bruceand laing recordings, and several of his albums from the 1980s and early '90s.these include willpower, (polygram, 1988), a question of time (epic records,1989), which includes guest performances by albert collins, nicky hopkins andbaker, as well as his cmp records live career retrospective album, recorded incologne, france, cities of the heart (1993). bruce's most recent release is1995's monkjack, an album of his jazz piano compositions, which he performs withorganist bernie worrell, issued on the cmp record label. -- richard skelly
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