1 	Seven Moons 	4:40
2 	Live Of Clay 	5:02
3 	Distant Places Of The Heart 	5:23
4 	She's Not The One 	2:55
5 	So Far To Yesterday 	3:33
6 	Just Another Day	5:29
7 	Perfect Place 	3:47
8 	The Last Door 	5:08
9 	Bad Case Of Celebrity 	4:05
10 	Come To Me 	4:44
11 	I'm Home 	3:12

Jack Bruce – bass, vocals
Robin Trower – guitar, vocals
Gary Husband – drums

Jack Bruce must have enjoyed his 2005 get-together with Cream so much that, when Clapton and Baker were unwilling to continue the collaboration, he rang up Robin Trower to renew the brief power trio fling they had in the mid-'80s. The Trower-Bruce pairing had released only two albums, B.L.T. and Truce, and was dormant since 1982, so this 2007 reunion was somewhat of a continuation of the project, albeit one separated by a quarter century. The results impressively continue where Truce left off, as Bruce brings his distinctive croon/moan to bluesy, riff-oriented tunes dominated by Trower's silvery guitar runs. Gary Husband fills the drum slot adequately if inconspicuously, but his contributions are mixed so far under Bruce's vocals and Trower's guitar that they are secondary. The previous two releases called in Trower's old Procol Harum lyricist Keith Reid and Bruce collaborator Peter Brown to write the words, but Bruce and Trower pen these 11 songs without outside assistance. Most tunes such as "Lives of Clay," a barely concealed rewrite of Cream's "Politician" lick, revisit familiar territory, and clearly these guys are not out to expand any boundaries. Bruce, who has had serious medical problems since they last recorded, sounds terrific -- strong and vibrant, even if a few tunes such as the minor-key ballad "I'm Home" seem somewhat clunky. This disc's "So Far to Yesterday" recalls Trower's "Twice Removed from Yesterday" both in its title and general mood. The yin/yang pairing keeps Bruce's more oblique jazz influences in check and does the same for Trower's space rock instincts, yielding a throwback that fans of both artists' previous work should enjoy. Trower's patented Hendrix-styled guitar adds a psychedelic edge to songs that generally stick to a midtempo lope and never blast out with Cream's insistent power, which can be somewhat frustrating to anyone who would like to hear these guys let loose. Still, there are enough strong moments on Seven Moons to recommend it, especially to those who enjoyed the duo's previous work 25 years ago. --- Hal Horowitz, allmusic.com

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Disc One:

1.    Can You Follow?
2.    Morning Story
3.    Keep It Down
4.    Pieces of Mind
5.    Tickets to Waterfalls/Weird of Hermiston/Post War  Spirit

Disc Two:

1.    One/You Burned the/ Tables On Me
2.    Smiles and Grins
3.    Sunshine of Your Love

Jack Bruce: Vocals, Bass Guitar, Piano; 
Mick Taylor: Guitar; 
Carla Bley: Organ, Synthesiser, Clavinet, Mellotron, Eletric Piano; 
Ronnie Leahy: Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesiser; 
Bruce Gary: Drums.

Recorded live at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 1 June 1975.
 Mixed at Eden Studios, London, 19 August 1975.

This double-CD set was one of the unexpected bonuses of the 2001/2002 remastering of Jack Bruce's RSO/Polydor catalog -- amid a search of the vaults, a tape of this performance, the only official live recording of the Jack Bruce Band, was unearthed. They were news to Bruce at the time of their discovery, rough mixes done in contemplation of a concert album that was abandoned. It has its technical problems, but it was possible to clean up most of the sound to a fully professional modern standard, except for a couple of spots where extraneous noise does intrude, especially on the opening of disc two. But those are insignificant flaws in relation to the overall content of these tapes, which capture the band in fine form, especially Bruce, lead guitarist Mick Taylor, and keyboardist Carla Bley -- Ronnie Leahy fills out the keyboard sound and Bruce Gary handles the drumming. Their sound is surprisingly tight and their playing rich and crisp, doing a mix of progressive rock and blues-rock in which there are at least four potential lead instruments beyond Bruce's voice, which is extremely powerful throughout and, indeed, more expressive on-stage than it ever seemed amid the cacophony of Cream's concerts. The repertory is drawn almost entirely from his solo catalog (though they do close with an extended version of "Sunshine of Your Love"), with a special emphasis on songs from Out of the Storm. Though Carla Bley gets a lot of the spotlight for her work on piano, organ, Mellotron, and various other keyboard instruments, Leahy gets an extended featured spot on the piano for the medley of "Tickets to Waterfalls"/"Weird of Hermiston"/"Post War." Although there are a few standard-length songs here, this was a band that mostly preferred to stretch out, a fact illustrated by the presence of only four numbers on the second CD, which runs the better part of an hour. What made it work was that they had enough to say to fill that length, even on the 23-minute "Smiles and Grins," and the otherwise familiar "Sunshine of Your Love," here flexed out to over 13 minutes. They switch gears effortlessly between vocal numbers like "One" and instrumental-driven jams such as "You Burned the Tables on Me," without skipping a beat or letting the listener go. It's difficult to imagine how RSO would have released this recording reasonably intact in its own time -- there are too many tracks here that would have taken up a full side of an LP, and while Leon Russell and a few others had made the triple-live album a reality in rock, one is hard-put to imagine RSO springing for that with Bruce, whose critical notices were fantastic but whose sales -- especially in England -- had never matched his reviews. So perhaps it's just as well that this recording was forgotten but not lost, to show up today. The mix of blues, jazz elements, and hard rock, all in a free-form jam format, now seems all the more bracing and the CD market allows it to be kept intact. It's also doubly fortunate that this show was recorded during the period in which technology had finally mastered the art of capturing the sound of various electronic keyboard devices on-stage intact -- it's a small matter, but fans of the Mellotron will probably love this release. --- Bruce Eder, allmusic.com

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01. Candlelight
02. Reach For The Night
03. Fields Of Forever
04. Hidden Cities
05. Don’t Look Now
06. Rusty Lady
07. Industrial Child
08. Drone
09. Keep It Down
10. No Surrender

Jack Bruce: vocals, bass, piano,mellotron
John Medeski: Hammond organ,mellotron (1,2,4,5,9)
Tony Remy: guitar(1,2,3,5,7)
Frank Tontoh: drums (1,2,3,5,6,9)
Derek Nash: tenor sax (1,2,3)
Russell Bennett: trumpet (1,3)
Winston Rollins: trombone (1,3)
Cindy Blackman Santana: drums(4,10)
Milos Pal: drums, djembe (1,8)
Rob Cass: percussion,backing vocals (1,3,6,10)
Phil Manzanera: guitar (1)
Malcolm Bruce: guitar (2,5,6)
Bernie Marsden: guitar (9,10)
Pearse MacIntyre: guitar (3)
Robin Trower: guitar (6)
Uli Jon Roth: guitar (4)
Aruba Red,Kyla Bruce,Chantelle Nandi,Julie Iwheta: vocals (4).

Silver Rails is Jack Bruce's first solo studio album since 2003's fine More Jack Than God. Bruce recorded the set at Abbey Road with producer Rob Cass and collaborated with a dazzling array of musicians. Notably, he brought back John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana from the Spectrum Road project -- a tribute band to the Tony Williams Lifetime -- which released its own album in 2012. He also enlisted son Malcolm Bruce and guest guitarists including Phil Manzanera, Robin Trower, Bernie Marsden, and Uli Jon Roth. Bruce wrote songs with longtime collaborators Pete Brown and Kip Hanrahan, as well as his wife, Margrit Seyffer. The music is quite diverse, making this album a distant spiritual cousin to 1969's Songs for a Tailor. There are some scathing rockers, most notably the rumbling, politically intense "Drone," illustrated only by distorted bass and drums and samples of a WWII Stuka. "Reach for the Night" is a sophisticated, multivalent pop song with R&B and even jazz overtones. The piano-driven rock of "Fields of Forever" actually recalls the spirit of "Doin' That Scrapyard Thing" from Cream's Goodbye album. "Rusty Lady" (about the death of Margaret Thatcher -- Bruce wasn't a fan) is a funky blues with Trower's silvery guitar punctuating the mix. The Caribbean rhythms and horns in "Candlelight" make it a sophisticated outlier here, Medeski's organ careening around a bubbling bassline, stuttering drum kit, brass, and Manzanera's dancing single lines and vamps. The complex melody in "Hidden Cities" walks a line between metal and prog, while the next cut, "Don't Look Now," commences as a lithe, weary ballad before gradually cracking itself open and transforming into a midtempo rocker. Marsden's stinging fills punch through Bruce's bassline in the strutting modern blues that is "Keep It Down." The set closes with the thundering rock and roll of "No Surrender," the most raucous tune on the set. Bruce's voice is a tad grainy, but his pitch and phrasing remain intact. Silver Rails is chancy and engaging, despite some inconsistent moments, and stands as a bright testament to an exceptional musician who, for over 50 years, has pushed at the margins of every genre he's taken on. ---Thom Jurek, Rovi

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CD One

1.You Burned the Tables on Me
2.Smiles & Grins
3.Folk Song
4.A Letter of Thanks
5.We're Going Wrong
6.Have You Ever Loved a Woman?
7.Powerhouse Sod
8.You Sure Look Good to Me

BBC Radio One "In Concert"
BBC Paris Theatre, 18.09.1971

9.Jack's Gone
10.Clearway
11.Powerhouse Sod
with John Surman, Jon Hiseman. BBC Radio Three "Jazz in Britain" Recorded 10.08.1971, broadcast 31.08.1971, 23.02.1972

- Previously unreleased session
CD Two

1.Can You Follow?
2.Morning Story
3.Keep It Down
4.Peaces of Mind
5.One
6.Spirit
7.Without a Word (previously unreleased)
8.Smiles and Grins

BBC TV "Old Grey Whistle Test" concert.
Recorded at the BBC TV Centre on 6 June 1975.

9.Fifteen Minutes Past Three
10.Ten to Four
with John Surman and Jon Hiseman

BBC Radio Three "Jazz in Britain" session.
Recorded 26 June 1978 and broadcast on 4 September 1978.

-Previously unreleased session
CD Three

1.Madhouse
2.Without a Word
3.Time
4.Baby Jane
5.Born Under a Bad Sign
6.Lost Inside a Song
7.Something to Live For
8.How's Tricks
9.Spirit
10.Out Into the Fields
11.You Burned the Tables on Me

BBC Radio One "In Concert". Recorded at the BBC Paris Theatre on 14 April 1977.

12.Twenty Past Four
with John Surman and Jon Hiseman BBC Radio Three "Jazz in Britain" session. Recorded 26 June 1978 and broadcast on 4 September 1978.

-Previously unreleased session

Jack Bruce - bass guitar, double bass, piano, vocals
Chris Spedding – guitar
Hughie Burns – guitar
Mick Taylor – guitar
Ronnie Leahy – keyboards
Tony Hymas – keyboards
Carla Bley – keyboards, mellotron
Graham Bond – keyboards, saxophone
Art Themen – saxophone
John Surman – saxophone
John Mashall – drums
John Surman – drums, percussion
Jon Hiseman - drums, percussion
Simon Phillips - drums, percussion

There was a time, a long, long time ago, when rock musicians were allowed to be more than just rock musicians. Many forget in fact that the first generation of such artists sprang from backgrounds that took in blues, jazz, classical and even the avant garde. London's early '60s venues rattled to the sounds of trad jazz and chicago blues as well as folk, rock 'n' roll and skiffle. Jack Bruce was most definitely a product of this era. it was only by the end of the decade that he was cornered into behemoth blues rockdom with the supergroup Cream. When the acrimony and work rate saw the band splinter, Eric Clapton turned to heroin and southern rock. and Ginger Baker decided to explore African polyrhythms. But Bruce was somewhat more eclectic. He somehow balanced a career that saw him forge his own songwriter's career (with Pete Brown as his trusted lyricist) and also return to his jazzier roots. This handsome box set draws together some of the peaks of these years that saw him plow a very musicianly furrow.

Four outfits accompany Bruce on these recordings of live and studio sessions. Each one, apart from his trio work with John Surman and John Hiseman, mixes players from all backgrounds. The 1971 set includes old boss and black magick aficcianado, Graham Bond, on keyboards as well as future session legend, Chris Spedding, on guitar and John Marshall (Soft Machine) on drums. It's a fine mixture of blues standards, Cream classics and solo numbers from Jack's first solo masterpiece, Songs For A Tailor.

By 1974 his restless search for a new band had turned up a stellar cast including Mick Taylor who had recently left the Stones due to his own creative frustrations. Here again the template is just as varied, with Carla Bley (on some questionably dated synth noises) as well as Bruce Gary and Ronnie Leahy. This outfit's flexibility is awesome. turning in knotty numbers including an impromptu version of Tony Williams' Spirit.

By 1976 the fusion monster was out of the box, and Bruce was rubbing shoulders with Simon Phillips (drums) and Tony Hymas (keyboards). Bruce uses the opportunity to air some totally new material while still referencing his past with a great version of Born Under A Bad Sign. By this point the ability of musicians to explore was being hampered by an industry more concerned with fiscal returns and niche marketing. A round peg in a square world, Bruce's days as a legend were now numbered. More's the pity.

Standing alone in all this are the two sessions completed for Radio 3's Jazz In Britain with Surman and Hiseman. While Hiseman crossed the jazz rock boundaries himself with Coliseum, Surman's out and out jazz chops certainly allow no room for blues cliches. Bruce's bass is wonderfully rich and at home here, with his fretless explorations on the latter session in 1978 proving that he could so easily have become a bona fide pillar of British jazz. It's interesting to compare their 1971 version of Powerhouse Sod - a staple of Bruce's live sets for years- compared with the live version from the same year. The first is a fabulously intuitive piece of free blowing, while the second is a fuzzed out monster. listeners can take their pick as to which one is preferable.

It seemed that Jack's very musical erudition would prove to be his undoing. Like Jeff Beck, his restlessness and commitment overrode the commercial gains to be won by the more mainstream Clapton. As a bass player it was always going to be difficult to gather the same plaudits as a hotshot guitarist, yet this excellent collection proves what a versatile player and utterly distinctive singer Bruce really is. It also proves that for a brief spell in the '70s, it was still possible to explore multiple genres without fear of losing or confusing an audience yet to be hung up on styles and fashion. --- Chris Jones, bbc.co.uk

Jack Bruce, basista i wokalista grupy Cream nie żyje. Muzyk zmarł w wieku 71 lat. Powodem śmierci była choroba wątroby. Poza nim grupę Cream tworzyli Eric Clapton i Ginger Baker. W latach 60. wylansowali takie przeboje jak "Sunshine for your Love" czy "White Room". Jack Bruce urodził się w Szkocji w 1943 roku. Zanim założył Cream, fascynował się jazzem. Grał na basie w grupach Alexis Koner's Blues Incorporation, Graham Bond Organization czy Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

Odrzucił ofertę koncertowania z Marvinem Gaye i zamiast tego dołączyłdo grupy Johna Mayalla. Tam poznał Erica Claptona, z którym w 1966 roku założył Cream. Skład tria uzupełnił Ginger Baker. Grupa funkcjonowała jako tzw. "power trio" - bez lidera, z wszystkimi muzykami piszącymi utwory.

W latach 1966-1969 Cream wydał cztery płyty, po czym muzycy kontynuowali kariery solowe. Pierwsza solowa płyta Bruce'a ukazała się w 1969 roku, ostatnia w marcu tego roku. Poza twórczością solową, Bruce grał w zespołach Johna McLaughlina i Ringo Starra, a także współpracował z Lou Reedem i Frankiem Zappą. ---muzyka.onet.pl

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1. Waiting on a Word (Bruce/Brown)
2. Ships in the Night (Bruce/Brown)
3. Theme for an Imaginary Western (Bruce/Brown)
4. Sitting On Top of the World (Burnett) (unreleased)
5. Life On Earth (Bruce)
6. NSU (Bruce)
7. Folksong (Bruce/Brown)
8. The Wind Cries Mary (Hendrix)
9. Politician (Bruce/Brown) (unreleased)
10. Rope Ladder to the Moon (Bruce/Brown)
11. Childsong (Bruce/Brown/Hymas)
12. Time Repairs (Bruce/Brown)
13. Third Degree (Boyd/Dixon)
14. Colotomix II (Bruce/Nauseef)

- Jack Bruce - vocals, bass, piano, keyboards, cello
- Maggie Reilly - vocals
- Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Clem Clempson, David Torn, Miroslav Tadic & Peter Weihe - guitars
- Bernie Worrell - Hammond B3 organ
- David Liebman - soprano saxophone
- François Garny - Bass
- Ginger Baker, Simon Phillips, Trilok Gurtu, Stuart Elliot & Mark Nauseef – drums

Unlike previous Jack Bruce compilations such as At His Best, Willpower, and The Collection, The Jack Bruce Collector's Edition is not drawn from Bruce's Polydor/ATCO/RSO recordings of the late '60s and '70s. Rather, it chronicles his recordings for the German CMP label in the 1980s and early '90s. This is still the Jack Bruce familiar to Cream fans, with fellow Cream members Eric Clapton sitting in on guitar on "Waiting on a Word" and "Ships in the Night" (from 1993's Somethin' Els) and Ginger Baker on drums on the Cream favorites "Sitting on Top of the World" and "NSU" (from the 1994 live album Cities of the Heart), and also including a re-recording of the Cream song "Politician." And it is the Jack Bruce of his early solo albums, with new versions of "Theme from an Imaginary Western" and "Rope Ladder to the Moon." But it is also the adventurous, jazzy singer/songwriter of 1995's Monkjack, from which the tracks "Folksong," "Time Repairs," and "Third Degree" are borrowed. So, while this collection does not contain a career-spanning set of Bruce's greatest hits, it does cover what for many fans may be a lost decade in the artist's catalog, demonstrating that during that period he was both reexamining his earlier work and creating significant new music. ---William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com

October 25, 2014. Jack Bruce, the singer and bassist for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Cream, has passed away, his family confirmed the musician's passing on his Facebook page. He was 71. "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," the Bruce family wrote. Bruce's publicist added, "He died today at his home in Suffolk surrounded by his family." No other details were revealed but the Press Association reports that the bassist suffered from liver disease.

As one-third of one of rock's greatest trios, along with guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker, Bruce was the voice and songwriter behind classic tracks like "White Room," "SWLABR," and "Sunshine of Your Love," which Bruce co-wrote with Clapton. Considered to be the first rock "supergroup," Cream pumped out four studio albums in three years – three of which landed on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time – before going their separate ways.

The band reunited briefly in 1993 for their Rock Hall induction, then again in for a triumphant series of 2005 concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall and New York's Madison Square Garden. In 2006, Bruce and his Cream mates received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Bruce also occasionally served as a member of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band and collaborated on the title track of Frank Zappa's Apostrophe.

Following Cream's breakup in 1968, Bruce kickstarted a long solo career with 1969's Songs of a Tailor. He would release over a dozen solo LPs over the next 45 years, including his latest album titled Silver Rails in March 2014. "I quite like to just enjoy my life. I'm thrilled to make this album. I put my heart and soul into it, and I'm very pleased with the way it came out," Bruce told Rolling Stone of his new album in April.

Cream also landed on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Artists, and in an ode to the trio written by Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd bassist writes, "Then there's Jack Bruce — probably the most musically gifted bass player who's ever been." ---Daniel Kreps, rollingstone.com

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01. As You Said
02. Rope Ladder To The Moon			play
03. He The Richmond
04. The First Time I Met The Blues
05. Deserted Cities Of The Heart
06. White Room
07. Born Under A Bad Sign
08. Tickets To Waterfalls
09. Theme To An Imaginary Western
10. Sitting On Top Of The World			play
11. Politician
12. Spoonful (w/Eric Clapton)
13. Sunshine Of Your Love (w/Eric Clapton)

Personnel: Jack Bruce :: Anton Fig :: Pat Thrall.
Guest Musician: Eric Clapton.

Recorded Live at The Bottom Line, New York, USA - October 10, 1988.

IMO, the best Solo band I ever heard w/Bruce. No flash gtr crap and such, Pat Thrall keeps it real, Ha. Bad Sign is way Hot, dig Jacks scat/solo bit, Is he having a "Jack Attack" or what. "As You Said is awesome too..but hey, the whole show/set is great... "Spoonful w/Eric is nice, you can feel it brew as Eric gets reaquainted w/his surroundings, doesn't really overplay, just plays really well..its really good. This is also the 1st time that Jack & Eric played together in public since CREAM. Enjoy, Its a really great performance by all. ---vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.com

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