Jack Bruce live in concert.
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Jack Bruce

11
critic concert reviews
jazz

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

75
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Critic Consensus

Based on 11 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Jack Bruce is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. Jack Bruce concert reviews describe live shows and performances as show-stopping, powerful, mellow, and impassioned.

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Smiles And Grins: Broadcast Sessions, 1970-2001 (29 March 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
jazz
Origin
East Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom (5/14/1943)
Bio
Jack Bruce (born John Symon Asher Bruce on 14 May 1943 in Bishopbriggs, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died 25 October 2014 in Suffolk, England) was a Scottish musician and composer, known as a founder member of the seminal British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, in the mid-to-late 1960s.
Has Performed With
Robin Trower, Joe Bonamassa

Critic Concert Reviews

Jazzwise (UK)

November 17, 2016
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A thunder of Afro-Jazz drums roared across the stage during the climactic highlight of a remarkable all-star show, dedicated to the memory of the late Jack Bruce.

Birmingham Live (UK)

March 29, 2012
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With Paul Woolliscroft on slick rhythm accompaniment, they cantered through a brief set of cover instrumentals enigmatically wrapped within elaborate interpretations.

The Guardian (UK)

January 26, 2012
80
%
Celtic Connections, long a catalyst for unlikely collaborations, surpassed itself with this union of Cream demi-god Jack Bruce and virtuoso folk trio Lau.

The Guardian (UK)

June 7, 2011
60
%
This was billed as the London guitar festival's celebration of 60 years of British blues, but Jack Bruce hasn't been playing for quite that long.

Music-News.com (UK)

June 5, 2011
80
%
As part of the London Guitar Festival sponsored by the International Guitar Foundation this was following a gig by Eric Bibb at the same venue (sublime by all accounts) and a one-off in the capital by Jack Bruce this year.

Music-News.com (UK)

August 7, 2009
100
%
Similarly Robin Trower started out with Procul Harum and then forged a career as a superb and completely individual guitarist with the Robin Trower Band.

Elmore Magazine (USA)

January 21, 2017
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“We both loved Monk,” said Pete Brown, in a rare moment of quiet at the beginning of the soundcheck.

Past critic reviews published in

Live in Limbo (Canada), Evening Standard (UK), Manchester Evening News (UK), Berkeley B-Side (USA), Hot Press Magazine (Ireland) and more

Image Credit

Christian Sahm [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons