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The year was 1968, and guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker were sitting on top of the world. Or so it seemed. In three short years, their band, Cream, had recorded ...
Unlike others before them, Cream — Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker — brought rock and roll fire, flair and ferocity to the genre — along with a fair helping of jazz-inspired ...
“You could argue there are two kinds of musicians,” the late Jack Bruce once told Bass Player. “The first type plays one ...
JACK BRUCE. The composer, the singer, the multi-instrumentalist, the Legend. Hailed as one of the most powerful vocalists and greatest bassists of his time, his improvisational skill and utterly ...
A British Beat poet, he wrote lyrics for the band Cream and, after it broke up, continued to collaborate with Jack Bruce, the group’s lead singer and bassist. By Richard Sandomir Pete Brown ...
The Gibson EB-1 bass guitar that Jack Bruce played during Cream’s reunion shows in 2005 is set to be displayed at the Gibson ...