OUT OF THE STORM
Jack Bruce
•Jazz Rock/Fusion
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| 35 ratings | 2 reviews | 19% 5 stars
Good, but non-essential |
Studio Album, released in 1974 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Pieces of Mind (5:39) - Jack Bruce / vocals, bass, piano, Fender Rhodes, clavinet, organ, harmonium, harmonica, composer & co-producer
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SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams
This album is another of Bruce's more progressive releases. And while none of the music is mind blowingly progessive, each track has enough inventiveness and originality to keep this prog listener satisfied.
Bruce's bass playing is at it's best here, and surprisingly for this, the first release of this album (sadly, without bonus tracks), the mix is quite good. The bass, which leads most of the songs here, is full and punchy. Guitarist Steve Hunter, who I will admit I know nothing about, does a fine job of keeping up with Bruce's twists and turns. And the drummers do an excellent job as well.
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog Folk
Opening surprisingly of the near-falsetto Bruce voice over a harmonium in Pieces Of Mind, the usual JB solo sonics return, with a generally "too-busy" bass line. The slow following Golden Days feature some female vocals to enhance Bruce's ambitious project, but the whole thing sounds forced to me. Bruce goes one further with the next Running Through Our Hands song, and he clearly overstretches himself, despite an interesting starting idea and lyrics from his wife. The A-side unravels uneventfully with the album-shortest Keep On Wondering, which has indeed got us so (wondering) but we've got an "iffy" harmonica break in the middle.
The Cream-esque Keep It Down gives you a breath of fresh air with some good Hunter guitars. The would-be title track returns to the weirdness of the A-side, while the longer One is one of better songs, but the album-wide competition is relatively weak. The album closes with its main highlight album-lengthiest Timeslip (an obvious call to his Cream days), but it's clearly the manic mainly instrumental second half that drives it home, especially that Hunter delivers a killer guitar solo? too bad it ends in a fade-out, though.
It's a little sad that the person I consider mainly responsible for 50% of Cream's greatness was never able to confirm this out of the trio's gatefold, and that the more he tried (too hard, IMHO), the sadder it got? But then again, the same observation applies for both Ginger and Eric as well. Despite some valiant tries during the 70's (including a collab with Ex-Procol Harum man Robin Trower), it seems that Jack was more a man of the 60's, rather than the following decades.
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