Jack Bruce
Considered one of the greatest bassists in rock history, Jack Bruce (1943-2014)
got his start in Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and John Mayall's
Bluesbreakers, where he met Eric Clapton, with whom he formed the powerful Cream
trio in 1966. The musician's style, inherited from jazz, then blended with blues
and rock played at maximum power, foreshadowing hard rock. In groups with Jack
Bruce & Friends, Tony Williams Lifetime and then West, Bruce & Laing and Truce
(with Robin Trower), or solo on the albums Songs for a Tailor (1969), Harmony
Row (1971) and Out of the Storm (1974)...
