Jack Bruce Composing Himself The Authorised Biography eBook Harry Shapiro Eric Clapton
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When Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who would enjoy continued commercial success. After all, it was Jack Bruce who had the looks, and who co-wrote and sang all the band's major hits, including 'Sunshine Of Your Love', 'I Feel Free', and 'White Room'. But he was a singular talent who wanted to be a pioneer, not just a pop star, and he was never happy resting on his reputation.
Cream split in their prime but their influence endured, and when they reformed in 2005 tickets were selling for nearly £2,000 on e-bay. In the 40 years since Cream split Bruce has continued his musical adventures with the likes of John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Carla Bley, and Mick Taylor, never quite achieving the success and recognition he deserves. It has been an often troubled life – heroin addiction, management rip-offs, family tragedy, and a failed liver transplant, all of which he speaks about frankly in this book, telling a story that is sometimes funny, sometimes bleak, and always honest.
Jack Bruce Composing Himself The Authorised Biography eBook Harry Shapiro Eric Clapton
319 pages total,11 pages of photos from throughout Bruce's life and career,Foreword by Eric Clapton,9 page introduction,3 extensive appendices,including discography,live performances,short overview of Bruce's choice of bass guitars,and an index.This book sets the bar very high for anyone else who might want to write about Jack Bruce and his music/personal life. This book covers areas such as Bruce's innovative use of the bass guitar,a composer (40 years and counting) of both vocal and instrumental pieces of music in several areas (rock,jazz,classical etc.) for his own distinctive voice and others,many of which will stand the test of time,an (relatively unknown) accomplished classical player (cello,piano) of some depth,and a man with many of the problems that his chosen life,and life in general,exposed him to.
The author has interviewed Jack Bruce,starting in 1978 (for a Graham Bond piece) and,for this book,has interviewed many people,including Bruce's family,friends,and fellow musicians,which brings Bruce's life in to clear perspective. Starting with Bruce's birth and upbringing,and on through his early years,the first couple of chapters looks at how his upbringing gave foundation to the man who came to be known as quick-tempered,and sometimes a bit sour. At an early age Bruce learned to look after himself and become fairly self-sufficient-traits that he would display all through his life. As a teen he discovered music,something which he found he was gifted at,and attended various music schools,sometimes only long enough to learn what he thought was pertinent.
The book continues with Bruce's formative gigs playing with various musicians and styles of music. At an early age (late teens) he learned to fend for himself while on the road with other musicians,many of them older than he. That,together with his broadening life experiences,and his upbringing,made Jack Bruce into the man and musician the public came to know. Of course much is written about his early years in London,with Graham Bond,Manfred Mann and other groups,and his meeting up and forming a group called CREAM,with Clapton and Baker. An interesting thing is that Bruce was invited to join CROSBY,STILLS,and NASH-but only as a bass player,not as another vocalist also. It was during this time that Bruce recorded his jazz/rock album, "Things We Like",which to this day is still a great sounding recording,and "Songs For A Tailor",probably his best known album,by critical standards and popularity.
Bruce's tenure with Tony Williams' LIFETIME band is looked at in depth,which is important because of the (for the times) innovative music the group played. The personalities of the group come into focus and how the members of the group affected Bruce's life and his playing. Bruce's many solo releases are also given their due,as are the different players used on each album. Many people have varying feelings about this period of Bruce's career,and like/dislike this period of album releases fervently-and it's all discussed here. The period with WEST,BRUCE,and LAING,and how that group came into being is very informative-how Felix Pappalardi was sick from heroin,and quit the group MOUNTAIN,with drummer Laing and guitarist Leslie West wanting to carry on with Paul Rodgers (of FREE) and bassist Overend Watts (MOTT THE HOOPLE),in a new configuration of their group,but wound up using Jack Bruce instead.
This book pulls no punches with Bruce's drug usage. It goes into some detail about Bruce's usage and it's affects on both him and his music. Bruce's admission that something was missing from his life,and he found it through heroin is both riveting and harrowing when he talks about this period of his life. Likewise Bruce's dealings with the record business and how he was shafted by mangers and the industry itself is brought into sharp focus,and how this affected him personally. The remainder of the book goes into his life,and his solo albums and bands,starting in the 80's,his liver transplant (due to a condition known as "anaethesia awareness",he was awake for the operation),and up through his reunion with Clapton and Baker in the CREAM concerts in 2005.
For Jack Bruce fans,or anyone wishing to read an accurate,in-depth look at a true musician's musician-this is the book to read. Not only is it about Jack Bruce,but it's also about an era-the musicians,the music,the times themselves-that will never be repeated. This book can sit on the shelf alongside other biographies of musicians (Thelonius Monk for example)whose life and music were bound together for better or worse.
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Jack Bruce Composing Himself The Authorised Biography eBook Harry Shapiro Eric Clapton Reviews
This is a very well done biography of one of the world's most accomplished musicians. As a long-time fan I thought I knew a lot about his work but this book really surprised me. Jack is a more colorful character than his reputation implies, and his personal stories provide welcome relief from the descriptions of his many tours and recordings with an incredibly impressive array of otherwise well-known musical collaborators. Bruce's long, often remarkably combative relationship with drummer Ginger Baker, in particular, is both astonishing and amusing. I was also surprised to learn of the many personal struggles Jack's endured, including an impoverished childhood and later years of alcohol and heroin addiction, coupled with seemingly consistent bad luck and poor representation/management, culminating in numerous career setbacks along the way. The details of his bands, projects, and decades-long songwriting partnership with Pete Brown have prompted me to seek out specific albums and songs for closer listening. Based on my experience, be warned that if you read this book you will likely soon be buying several Jack Bruce recordings that you previously overlooked. I began with Jack's largely unheralded 3rd solo album, Harmony Row (1971), and found it a revelation. Quite understandably, as stated in the book, it remains Jack's favorite of all his solo works.
The man who truly drove Cream musician Jack Bruce is often overlooked by most music listeners. Bruce wrote the bulk of the material, played bass, cello, piano, sang most of the lead vocals and wrote most of the band's original material. While Clapton's guitar was a key element of that band, according to Clapton himself, "Jack's band" (even though Ginger Baker founded the band).
Bruce was one of the seminal bass players of the 60's (perhaps only matched by John Entwistle in terms of his approach to the instrument and Paul McCartney for sheer melodic invention)and if he had done nothing else he would be remembered for his ability to swing between jazz and rock effortlessly while creating a whole new vocabulary for the instrument.
Bruce's career has had its ups (Graham Bond Organisation,Cream, West, Bruce and Laing, BLT) and downs (a lot of his later solo career)and throughout it all he has cut a blazing, brilliant career that many record labels didn't know what to do with in terms of marketing.
"Jack Bruce Composing Himself" gives us insight into Bruce's talent, his ego as well as his flaws as a person. Bruce struggled with drug addiction, fidelity (a problem a lot of touring musicians face). The author Harry Shapiro had access to Bruce and his collaborators allowing him a unique insight into the musician and both the difficulties he faced as well as Bruce's ability to overcome many of those difficulties.
One of the few books out there that highlights this remarkable and talented musician "Jack Bruce Composing Himself" provides plenty of behind-the-scenes stories behind the recording of his classic albums and tours as well as providing us unique insight into Bruce himself.
Recommended.
319 pages total,11 pages of photos from throughout Bruce's life and career,Foreword by Eric Clapton,9 page introduction,3 extensive appendices,including discography,live performances,short overview of Bruce's choice of bass guitars,and an index.
This book sets the bar very high for anyone else who might want to write about Jack Bruce and his music/personal life. This book covers areas such as Bruce's innovative use of the bass guitar,a composer (40 years and counting) of both vocal and instrumental pieces of music in several areas (rock,jazz,classical etc.) for his own distinctive voice and others,many of which will stand the test of time,an (relatively unknown) accomplished classical player (cello,piano) of some depth,and a man with many of the problems that his chosen life,and life in general,exposed him to.
The author has interviewed Jack Bruce,starting in 1978 (for a Graham Bond piece) and,for this book,has interviewed many people,including Bruce's family,friends,and fellow musicians,which brings Bruce's life in to clear perspective. Starting with Bruce's birth and upbringing,and on through his early years,the first couple of chapters looks at how his upbringing gave foundation to the man who came to be known as quick-tempered,and sometimes a bit sour. At an early age Bruce learned to look after himself and become fairly self-sufficient-traits that he would display all through his life. As a teen he discovered music,something which he found he was gifted at,and attended various music schools,sometimes only long enough to learn what he thought was pertinent.
The book continues with Bruce's formative gigs playing with various musicians and styles of music. At an early age (late teens) he learned to fend for himself while on the road with other musicians,many of them older than he. That,together with his broadening life experiences,and his upbringing,made Jack Bruce into the man and musician the public came to know. Of course much is written about his early years in London,with Graham Bond,Manfred Mann and other groups,and his meeting up and forming a group called CREAM,with Clapton and Baker. An interesting thing is that Bruce was invited to join CROSBY,STILLS,and NASH-but only as a bass player,not as another vocalist also. It was during this time that Bruce recorded his jazz/rock album, "Things We Like",which to this day is still a great sounding recording,and "Songs For A Tailor",probably his best known album,by critical standards and popularity.
Bruce's tenure with Tony Williams' LIFETIME band is looked at in depth,which is important because of the (for the times) innovative music the group played. The personalities of the group come into focus and how the members of the group affected Bruce's life and his playing. Bruce's many solo releases are also given their due,as are the different players used on each album. Many people have varying feelings about this period of Bruce's career,and like/dislike this period of album releases fervently-and it's all discussed here. The period with WEST,BRUCE,and LAING,and how that group came into being is very informative-how Felix Pappalardi was sick from heroin,and quit the group MOUNTAIN,with drummer Laing and guitarist Leslie West wanting to carry on with Paul Rodgers (of FREE) and bassist Overend Watts (MOTT THE HOOPLE),in a new configuration of their group,but wound up using Jack Bruce instead.
This book pulls no punches with Bruce's drug usage. It goes into some detail about Bruce's usage and it's affects on both him and his music. Bruce's admission that something was missing from his life,and he found it through heroin is both riveting and harrowing when he talks about this period of his life. Likewise Bruce's dealings with the record business and how he was shafted by mangers and the industry itself is brought into sharp focus,and how this affected him personally. The remainder of the book goes into his life,and his solo albums and bands,starting in the 80's,his liver transplant (due to a condition known as "anaethesia awareness",he was awake for the operation),and up through his reunion with Clapton and Baker in the CREAM concerts in 2005.
For Jack Bruce fans,or anyone wishing to read an accurate,in-depth look at a true musician's musician-this is the book to read. Not only is it about Jack Bruce,but it's also about an era-the musicians,the music,the times themselves-that will never be repeated. This book can sit on the shelf alongside other biographies of musicians (Thelonius Monk for example)whose life and music were bound together for better or worse.
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