Somethin' Els

Somethin' Els Artist: Jack Bruce
Label: Creative Music Prod.
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 044351100125
EAN: 0044351100125
ASIN: B000008DU5


Release Date: 1993-02-23

Somethin' Els


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Tracks:

  1. Waiting on a Word
  2. Willpower
  3. Ships in the Night
  4. Peaces of the East
  5. Close Enough for Love
  6. G.B. Dawn Blues
  7. Criminality
  8. Childsong
  9. FM

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Like riding a seesaw: plenty of ups and downs.......2004-10-13

Jack Bruce, reunited with lyricist Pete Brown, recorded "Somethin' Els" over a span of nearly six years. He does not explore anything particularly new here---but considering that Mr. Bruce does cover rock, blues, jazz-rock, and ballads---that's not a knock. Well, there is a piano solo, FM, which closes this session and foreshadows Mr. Bruce's subsequent keyboards-only album Monkjack.

This CD starts off with three superb tracks, Waiting on a Word, Willpower, and Ships in the Night, notable also because Eric Clapton adds some very fine, even restrained guitar which really shimmers on the latter track. (It's really good to hear EC playing with focus and energy on these songs.) This track is also notable for Mr. Bruce's vocal duet with the esteemed Maggie Reilly. The other musicians are all superb, somewhat eclectic folks, many of whom have crossed paths with Mr. Bruce previously.

The next four tunes, Peaces of East, Close Enough for Love, G.B. Dawn Blues, and Criminality are likely to put off casual listeners, for Mr. Bruce indulges his somewhat avant-garde tendencies, with varying degrees of success, and wasting a rare guest appearance from sax legend Dick Heckstall-Smith plus one of Clem Clempson's appearances on the worst track here, G.B. Dawn Blues.

Childsong, the wonderfully haunting penultimate track, help anchors the CD and likely will inspire repeated listens.

Listening to this recording is like riding a seesaw: you cannot have the ups without the downs. Four stars may be a tad much, but three would imply "average" to me, and I don't mind tilting the scale for creativity.

The lyrics are worth reading as a standalone exercise if, for no other reason, to marvel at the muses that cajole lyricist and poet Pete Brown. Mr. Bruce's own liner notes are the sort of cryptic, scattershot that minds like his foment even as he must be thinking of his next project.

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