Jack Bruce, former Cream man, dies aged 71
Source: Guardian
Jack Bruce, best known as one third of Cream, has died of liver disease. In a statement issued by his family on Saturday, his family said: ““It is with great sadness that we, Jack’s family, announce the passing of our beloved Jack: husband, father, granddad, and all round legend. The world of music will be a poorer place without him but he lives on in his music and forever in our hearts.”
Bruce played bass, sang and was the principal songwriter in Cream, but even leaving aside that group, in which he played with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, his CV reads like a comprehensive guide to the British blues boom, with spells in Alexis Korner’s Blues Inc, the Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Manfred Mann.
Following the demise of Cream in 1968, Bruce worked mainly as a solo artist or as part of small groups. Cream reunited briefly in 2005 for a short series of shows, but soon split again. The animus between Baker and Bruce, which had made Cream so combustible in the 60s, and had caused Bruce to leave the Graham Bond Organization even before then, appeared to make any further Cream activity unworkable. The irony was that both had achieved their greatest commercial success together: not only were Cream hugely successful, but the album the two released with guitarist Gary Moore as BBM in 1994 saw them make a rare return to the top 10, it being as near to Cream as fans thought they would ever see.
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losing a lot of great musicians lately 
. . .musical teeth playing Jack Bruce's riffs.
Sail On, Jack Bruce.
...before I learned of Jack's passing, I had a setlist in the works called "Night Of The Long Jams"...5 songs in 60 minutes. One segment is Robin's "Daydream" followed by Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Dream." When I heard the news about Jack I took out one of the songs and substituted Cream's "Spoonful" from "Wheels Of Fire," which is my all-time favorite Cream (and Jack Bruce) performance. I'll now be opening the show with that.
I put the show together a week in advance or I'd be playing it tonight. I'm on in 20 minutes so there'd be no time to do that, sadly.
DAMN they were great. LOVED Cream. Came of age on that stuff.
This guitar took the top off of my head as an impressionable youth.
Not actually a genre that I sought out when growing up but was exposed to it as it was played prolifically on Top 40 stations (with groups like Cream, the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin etc.). I never made it a point back then, to determine who sung what songs of the genre but I got to *know* the songs... 
One of my favorites -
R.I.P. and hope that modern rock can somehow recapture the spirit of that earlier generation.
