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Things We Like
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work
Things We Like is Jack Bruce's only instrumental album. He recorded it in August 1968, while he was still playing with Cream, but it did not come out until late 1970, a year after Songs for a Tailor. It thus became his second solo album to appear, but the first to be recorded. Bruce is said to have written most of the pieces as early as 1955, when he was twelve.
Unlike his rock and blues records, this is a jazz album, drawing on the bebop of the 1950s and the free jazz of the 1960s. Bruce plays mostly double bass, an instrument he rarely recorded. He works with the saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith and the guitarist John McLaughlin, with whom he had previously played in Graham Bond's band. HCKHH Blues had already been recorded live in 1963 by the Graham Bond Quartet. The record did not chart on release.
Listening
Track list
- 1Over the Cliff2:53Apple Music ↗
- 2Statues7:32Apple Music ↗
- 3Sam Enchanted Dick: Sam's Sack / Rill's Thrills7:26Apple Music ↗
- 4Born to Be Blue4:24Apple Music ↗
- 5HCKHH Blues8:55Apple Music ↗
- 6Ballad for Arthur7:40Apple Music ↗
- 7Things We Like3:33Apple Music ↗
- 8Ageing Jack Bruce, Three, from Scotland, England5:20Apple Music ↗
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