Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher Jack Bruce was a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter known primarily for his contributions to the British supergroup Cream, which also included guitaristsinger Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker. In March 2011 Rolling Stone readers selected him as the eighth greatest bass guitarist of all time. Most musicians would have a very hard time distinguishing themselves if they wound up in a band with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, the magazine said at the time, but Jack Bruce was so gifted on the bass that he did it with ease.

Bruce was born onMay 1943 in Bishopbriggs, Lanarkshire, to Betty and Charlie Bruce, musical parents who moved frequently, resulting in the young Bruce attendingdifferent schools, ending up at Bellahouston Academy. He began playing the jazz bass in his teens and won a scholarship to study cello and musical composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama while playing in Jim McHargs Scotsville Jazzband to support himself. The academy disapproved of its students playing jazz. They found out, Bruce told Musician correspondent Jim Macnie, and said you either stop, or leave college. So I left college.

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