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Co-founding Cream bassist Jack Bruce, last seen as part of the muscular fusion group Spectrum Road, is set to release a solo album this year — his first since 2003’s More Jack than God.
“I’m definitely making an album this year, a studio album — which I haven’t done in a long time,” Bruce tells Penny Henderson in the attached video. “The record company wants it for October, but it might take longer than that. Sometimes I work very quickly — in the old days, we used to make an album in about four days. (Laughs.)”
Spectrum Road featured Bruce, organist John Medeski, drummer Cindy Blackman and guitarist Vernon Reid, of Living Colour fame. The band, which took its name from a track on the 1969 debut album by Tony Williams’ Lifetime, produced an album that would be named one of Something Else! Reviews’ top 2012 releases.
[SOMETHING ELSE! INTERVIEW: Vernon Reid takes us into the genesis of Spectrum Road, explaining how jazz has been a part of his musical vocabulary since long before Living Colour]
Bruce has issued 13 stand-alone solo projects, dating back to 1969’s Songs for a Tailor. Cream, which also featured guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker, issued four albums between 1966-69. The trio reunited in May 2005 for a series of shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
As for his forthcoming new solo album, the cancer survivor says it won’t deviate too much from what fans have come to expect from Jack Bruce.
“It’s going to be a modern record, but based on me,” he says. “I can’t suddenly become somebody else. I’ve done the best me there is! (Laughs.) It will be modern takes on what I do.”
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