Jack Bruce - Songs for a Tailor
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Artist: Jack BruceEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-04-14
Music Label: Universal I.S.
Soundtracks:
- Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune
- Theme For An Imaginary Western
- Tickets To Waterfalls
- Weird Of Hermiston
- Rope Ladder To The Moon
- The Ministry Of Bag
- He The Richmond
- Boston Ball Game, 1967
- To Isengard
- The Clearout
- The Ministry Of Bag
- Weird Of Hermiston
- The Clearout
- The Ministry Of Bag
Music reviews of Songs for a Tailor
Music Review: Essential Jack Bruce along with "Harmony Row" and ""More Jack Than God"
Rating: 5 Stars
After the break up of Cream Jack Bruce dove right into his second solo album (his first was an instrumental album that was released after this one). "Songs for a Tailor" features a couple of tracks written for Cream (but unrecorded or rejected)along with a strong group of new originals that Bruce wrote with his lyricist Pete Brown.
"Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune" shows Bruce's love of jazz with its unusual time signature and interesting horn arrangement. It features exceptional guitar playing by George Harrison. "Theme From an Imaginary Western" with its dominating sound of piano sounds unlike anything that Cream recorded. Although it sounds a bit like The Band, the music was actually written BEFORE The Band had recorded their first album back in 1963. "Tickets to Waterfalls" features nice piano and bass playing by Bruce along with a terrific vocal. "Weird of Hermiston" with its opening descending piano riff sounds nothing what you might expect from the title. This song was originally written for Cream (and there is a demo of it on the Cream box set "Those Were The Days").
The strangest song is the closer "The Clearout" (which was also written by Bruce/Brown for Cream to record and, again, there is a Cream demo on the box set). One could easily imagine Cream releasing this inspite of the subdued guitar work of the usually impressive Chris Spedding--one could imagine both Spedding if allowed to (and Clapton still in his prime)tearing this song up with a killer solo. The band includes Spedding, Bruce (who plays bas, piano, guitar, organ on the album) drummer Jon Hiseman and some nice sax playing by Dick Heckstall.
The reissue includes extensive liner notes about Bruce's career, the recording of the album and comments from Bruce and his lyricist Pete Brown. We also get full musician credits for the album. The bonus tracks are largely made up of alternate mixes and a demo. The best outtake here is the alternate mix of "Ministry of Bag" with tasty guitar work by Chris Spedding that left off the final version from the original album.
The album sounds terrific--the remastering engineer Paschal Byrne and co-ordinating producer Mark Powell have avoided the temptation to compress the heck out of the recording and make it louder to make it sound "more contemporary". As a result the dynamic range is very good throughout the album and these two have also been very respectful of the outtakes as well assembling them carefully with an eye towards providing fans with sometime a bit different. I'd highly recommend this which, along with "Harmony Row" and Bruce's 2003 return "More Jack Than God" represents Bruce in peak form as a songwriter/singer/player.
Description of Songs for a Tailor
Remastered reissue of the ex-Cream bassist's 1969 solo album debut. Includes four previously unreleased bonus tracks, 'Ministry Of Bag' (Demo), 'Weird Of Hermiston' (Alternate Mix), 'The Clearout' (Alternate Mix), & 'Ministry Of Bag' (Alternate Mix). 14 tracks in all. Includes enhanced packaging. Polydor. 2003.Classic Rock CDs
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