JACK BRUCE & HIS BIG BLUES BAND
Territory: Europe (except UK)
Period: Mars/April & June-August, 2012
Line-up: Jack Bruce (bass, keyboards, vocals), Tony Remy (guitar), Frank Tontoh (drums), Paddy Milner (keyboards), Nicholas Cohen (bass), Paul Newton (trumpet), Winston Rollins (trombone), Derek Nash (saxophone).
Website: www.jackbruce.com
Jack Bruce, composer, bassist, singer and multi-instrumentalist was born in the industrial, Scottish city of Glasgow to working class parents. his love of music was stimulated by his mother (Scots folk music) and father (jazz). At age sixteen he won a scholarship in cello and composition to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama of which he now holds an Honorary Doctorate of Music. There is also the ‘Jack Bruce Zone’ at the RSAMD which features a wall sculpture depicting his life story.
He left home at seventeen to seek fame and fortune and travelled around Europe playing with many jazz bands before settling in London. There he played with Alexis Korner’s Blues Inc., The Graham Bond Organization, John Mayall and Manfred Mann before forming the world’s first super group, Cream with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker. He composed most of Cream’s hits, including I Feel Free, Sunshine of Your Love, White Room and many others during the band’s meteoric career. After the demise of Cream he began his dream of pursuing his personal goal of forging his own musical language and playing with many of the finest musicians in the world in his own bands.
In 1993 Jack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Cream, and the band had a tremendously successful reunion in 2005. The following year, Jack was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Grammy for his work with Cream.
He continues to be prolific musically and records and plays concerts all over the globe.
In 2009 Jack released the ‘Seven Moons’ CD and live DVD with guitar god, Robin Trower as well as the six CD box set entitled ‘Can You Follow?’ which traces Jack’s career from the age of nineteen up until (almost) the present day. He was awarded the degree Doctor of Letters from Glasgow Caledonian University.
2010 saw the release of Jack’s authorized biography, ‘Composing Himself’ and to come this year as well as touring, the amazing double album ‘Jack Bruce and the Cuicoland Express Live at the Milky Way’ and the long awaited release of the seminal documentary film about Jack by Tony Palmer, ‘Rope Ladder to the Moon.’
Jack Bruce – Live at the Milky Way
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