Jack Bruce - The Second Disc

In a White Room: Cream’s ‘Wheels of Fire’ Spins Back Into Print As Box Set

May 13, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

Cream’s penultimate album – the 1968 studio/live set Wheels of Fire – will be expanded this summer, offering four unique mixes of the studio disc on two CDs, an expanded concert offering on another two, and a selection of rare and unreleased cuts on a fifth CD. The Wheels of Fire (Super Deluxe Edition) will also be matched by Wheels of Fire: In the Studio, a triple LP set that, true to its name, features the studio material from the 5CD collection. (Wheels of Fire: Live At The Fillmore and Winterland, a triple album collecting the…

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Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce

Picture On The Wall: John Mayall’s Early Years Collected on 35-CD Box Set, “The First Generation: 1965-1974”

November 11, 2020 by Sam Stone | 5 Comments

JohnMayall FirstGeneration 1965 1974 pl min

In the pantheon of British blues music, few have had as much influence as John Mayall. As the leader of The Bluesbreakers in the ’60s and ’70s (and through to today), he’s sought out and nurtured talented musicians who’d go on to become as legendary as Mayall himself. Indeed, the roster of future legends that passed through the ranks of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers is immense. John McVie, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Paul Butterfield, Aynsley Dunbar, Mick Taylor, Keef Hartley, and Jack Bruce all made sizable contributions to the band’s direction, with Mayall…

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Aynsley Dunbar, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, John Mayall, John McVie, Keef Hartley, Mick Taylor, Paul Butterfield, Peter Green

Cream’s Long ‘Goodbye’ Compiled For New Box Set

December 10, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

The fourth and final core album by Cream, 1969’s Goodbye (sometimes referred to as Goodbye Cream), followed the structure of the previous year’s Wheels of Fire. Whereas that album featured one disc of live recordings and one disc of studio tracks, the taut Goodbye had one live side and one studio side. Despite its short running time of just six songs, Goodbye packed considerable power from the triumvirate of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker. It reached the top of the Albums Chart in the U.K. and an impressive No. 2…

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Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce

Off The Handle: Rory Gallagher Rarities Collection “Blues” Arrives From UMC

June 3, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

Eric Clapton once described Rory Gallagher as “the man who got me back into the blues.” Though he never reached the same “household name” fame as Clapton or other contemporaries, Irish guitar legend Gallagher led a movement back to blues roots that began with his band Taste and continued on throughout his solo career from 1971 to 1994. To commemorate 50 years since Gallagher began his recording, UMC has released a new collection that mines the vaults of the celebrated singer and instrumentalist in search of his most bluesy fare. Appropriately titled…

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Albert King, Jack Bruce, Lonnie Donegan, Muddy Waters, Rory Gallagher

And On The Third Day: Jack Bruce Joins Gary Burton, Michael Gibbs On Live “Festival ’69” Concerts

October 9, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Later this month, Cherry Red’s Turtle Records is turning back the clock almost 50 years for the first official release of two 1969 concerts from longtime friends and collaborators Michael Gibbs and Gary Burton. Festival ’69, due September 28, is a 3-CD set of performances from Gibbs at Lancaster University (February 1969) and Burton with Gibbs at Whitla Hall in Belfast (November 20, 1969) primarily featuring Gibbs’ own compositions. Students of Herb Pomeroy, trombonist Gibbs and vibraphonist Burton met while attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Burton’s early fusion records on…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 24

February 24, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! George Harrison, The Vinyl Collection (Apple/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) George Harrison – The Vinyl Collection includes newly-remastered editions of 13 albums, from Wonderwall Music (1968) to the posthumously released Brainwashed (2002). Each album has been remastered at Capitol Studios from the original tapes and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl. The albums are all packaged in replica sleeves, and the entire set comes in one sturdy slipcase.While all of the LPs will be available individually, the box set will also contain exclusive 12-inch…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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David Bowie, George Harrison, Harry Belafonte, Herb Alpert, Jack Bruce, Meredith Willson, Roy Orbison

Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Featuring songs that “offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book,” Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day Renaissance man’s entire recorded discography, from 1977’s My Aim is True to 2013’s Wise Up Ghost, his collaboration album with hip-hop group The Roots. In addition, two…

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CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Charlie Rich, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jack Bruce, Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Sweet, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rod Stewart, Susanna Hoffs, The Kinks, a-ha

Release Round-Up: Week of April 28

April 28, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Dusty Springfield, Faithful (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Faithful assembles for the first time on one CD all of the masters produced by Jeff Barry (“Chapel of Love,” “Leader of the Pack,” “Sugar, Sugar”) for Dusty Springfield in 1971. From his home base at New York’s Century Sound, Barry produced thirteen songs for Dusty – twelve intended for album release and one for a non-LP single. Four songs were released on two 45s, but when Dusty departed Atlantic Records, the remaining tracks were left on the shelf, and thought…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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