Jeff Berlin - Jack Songs (2022)

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Jeff Berlin - Jack Songs (2022) 96-24
Country: USA
Genre: Progressive Rock,Jazz fusion
Format: FLAC (*tracks)
Quality: Lossless [96kHz/24 bit]
Time: 57:53
Full Size: 1.18 GB

Bass icon Jeff Berlin has released a new tribute album to legendary Jack Bruce titled "Jack Songs". Jack Bruce, best known for his work with classic rock group Cream as well as his critically acclaimed solo work passed away in 2014. Jeff Berlin, who has been called "the greatest bass player in the world", was a personal friend of Jack's and wanted to record his songs in remembrance of how Jack helped Jeff to find his own musical path.

Says Jeff, "Recording the music of Jack Bruce has been the most emotional recording project of my career. Jack was the greatest bass influence I ever had. In the center of his music were these strange and wonderful bass lines weaving in and out of the key, reaching for resolutions and finding them, again, and again. Jack's playing was a living evolving improvisation.

Jack was the Alpha and Omega for me. I never would have become the bass player I became if I didn't hear his unfettered improvisations and innovations, his creating a completely original bass tone, and his playing every gig as if it was his last. When he died, I immediately set out to honor him by reviewing his music to choose some of my favorite songs of his and recording them via my own musical vision. As was his legacy of musical brilliance, I wanted this record to be brilliant to honor his spirit. He really means this much to me.

'Jack Songs' isn't a cover CD, not in the literal sense. Except for a couple of tunes from his Cream period (arranged in ways that should surprise people) most of the songs on this CD come from other periods in Jack's musical life after Cream. Jack's solo career represented a multitude of musical styles. This recording will be a new revamp of some of those songs, some of the best music that I heard from one of the greatest musicians of the last fifty years.I arranged the music so that each song on 'Jack Songs' would end up as an individual work comprised of various parts of other songs in them.

For over 40 years, Jeff Berlin has stood as one of the most innovative electric bassists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Known for his one-of-a-kind tone, jaw dropping technique and highly advanced harmonic approaches to the bass, Jeff has been one of the major figures in firmly establishing the electric bass as a solo instrument well deserving of its own distinct place in modern music.

Jeff's recording and performance credits include a who's who of jazz and rock. They include: Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Larry Coryell, Pat Martino, John McLaughlin, Anderson Wakeman Bruford Howe, Frank Zappa, Patrick Moraz and many more.





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01. Creamed (05:48)

02. Theme from an Imaginary Western (05:48)
03. A Letter of Thanks (04:43)
04. L'angelo Misterioso (05:55)
05. Rope Ladder to the Moon (04:40)
06. One Without a Word (06:01)
07. Smiles Story and Morning Grins (07:40)
08. Folk Song (05:39)
09. Traintime Time (06:01)
10. Fuimus (We Have Been) (05:38)

Jeff Berlin: Bass, Keyboards
Bruce Guttridge: Drums
John McCracken: Guitars
Pat Coil: Organ

Featured Guest Performers:

Sammy Hagar, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Gregg Bissonette, Bill Frisell, Gary Husband, Bruce Guttridge, Eric Johnson, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Alex Ligertwood, Scott Henderson, Marcus Miller, Ron Carter, Tony Levin, Michael League, Nathan East, Mark King, Billy Sheehan and Johnny Hiland.