houseisland
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If you feel like it, post Jack Bruce things you like - joke intended.
The mainstream Cream things are obvious and most everyone will know them, but it is nice to hear them again anyway.
Jack played briefly in Kip Hanrahan's afro/cuban jazz group for a bit, with Ignacio Berroa, Milton Cardona, Arto Lindsay, David Murray, Peter Scherer, and Steve Swallow. There is a touching story about one of the group's gigs where a group of Viet Nam vets wandered in because they had seen Jack's name on the marquee of the club. They were quite perplexed by the music that was presented, and to Jack's embarrassment, they kept calling for Cream tunes. Hanrahan apparently talked to the vets at break, and they told him how important Cream had been to them when they were in service. Hanrahan went and talked to Jack, and after the break, the band spontaneously did afro/cuban versions of Cream's greatest hits.
Anyway, here is one of Jack's tunes that the Hanrahan group did, Make Love, a title also on Jack's Life on Earth Album. I like the interplay of the two bass players: Jack plays low; Steve plays high. And Jack's low falsetto.... well, if you like Jack, I don't need to say anything, do I?
The mainstream Cream things are obvious and most everyone will know them, but it is nice to hear them again anyway.
Jack played briefly in Kip Hanrahan's afro/cuban jazz group for a bit, with Ignacio Berroa, Milton Cardona, Arto Lindsay, David Murray, Peter Scherer, and Steve Swallow. There is a touching story about one of the group's gigs where a group of Viet Nam vets wandered in because they had seen Jack's name on the marquee of the club. They were quite perplexed by the music that was presented, and to Jack's embarrassment, they kept calling for Cream tunes. Hanrahan apparently talked to the vets at break, and they told him how important Cream had been to them when they were in service. Hanrahan went and talked to Jack, and after the break, the band spontaneously did afro/cuban versions of Cream's greatest hits.
Anyway, here is one of Jack's tunes that the Hanrahan group did, Make Love, a title also on Jack's Life on Earth Album. I like the interplay of the two bass players: Jack plays low; Steve plays high. And Jack's low falsetto.... well, if you like Jack, I don't need to say anything, do I?
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