Blues-rock legends Jack Bruce, bassist for the ground-breaking 1960s-era band Cream, and guitarist Robin Trower, a long-ago member of British rockers Procol Harum and a successful solo artist, have once again teamed up and will be releasing their first live recording together. Titled Seven Moons Live, the album is scheduled for release on October 13, 2009 by Ruf Records. Drummer Gary Husband, a veteran of Gary Moore's band, rounds out the power trio.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jack Bruce (with Cream) has over four decades of experience playing nearly every style of music imaginable, from earthy British blues with John Mayall and Alexis Korner to blues-rock with Cream and West, Bruce & Laing; from jazz and jazz-fusion with Tony Williams Lifetime and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra; to pop with Manfred Mann and Donovan.
Bruce has also enjoyed a significant solo career, and through the years his Jack Bruce & Friends band can boast of members like former Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell, jazz-fusion percussionist Billy Cobham, jazz guitarist Larry Coryell, and former Humble Pie fretburner Clem Clempson. In other words, the man has mad skills and everybody who is anybody has chosen to play with him.
Phenomenal guitarist Robin Trower needs no introduction. He first came to prominence during the early-1960s with the British R&B band the Paramounts. When his former Paramounts bandmate Gary Brooker needed musicians to round out the Procol Harum line-up, he called Trower, who would subsequently record five smash hit albums with the band between 1967 and 1972, before leaving to launch his solo career.
During the 1970s, Trower recorded ground-breaking and acclaimed psychedelic blues-rock albums like Bridge of Sighs, Long Misty Days, and In City Dreams, all of which would hit the Billboard magazine Top 40 album chart. During the 1980s, Trower largely dropped the Hendrix-inspired psychedelic edge to his music and turned his skills towards even more of a bluesy sound, and in the decades since has become one of the blues-rock genre's favorite instrumentalists. Trower released his latest album, and the first on which he takes up the microphone, earlier in 2009 with What Lies Beneath.
Jack Bruce and Robin Trower first joined forces in 1980, recording a pair of critically-acclaimed albums, including 1981's B.L.T. which would scrape the bottom of the Billboard Top 40 album chart. The two would get back together in 2008 to record Seven Moons, a well-received collection of original blues-rock tunes penned by the pair, featuring Bruce's mournful vocals and fluid bass lines, and Trower's shimmering fretwork.
Seven Moons Live was recorded in February 2009 in front of a raucous, enthusiastic audience in Nijmegen, Holland. The twelve-track album features eight songs from the pair's 2008 studio album, the song "Carmen" from the 1981 B.L.T. disc, and new versions of three classic Cream songs - "Sunshine of Your Love," "White Room," and "Politician" - all originally written by Bruce back during the late-1960s. Music Video Distributors will also be releasing a DVD of the performance.
Seven Moons Live Track Listing
1. Seven Moons
2. Lives of Clay
3. Distant Places of the Heart
4. Sunshine of Your Love
5. Carmen
6. So Far to Yesterday
7. Perfect Place
8. Bad Case of Celebrity
9. The Last Door
10. Come to Me
11. White Room
12. Politician