Jack Bruce

Jack Bruce, Former Cream Frontman is the headline of a small NY Times piece.  Jack Bruce, who formed influential British rock band Cream in the 1960s with guitarist Eric Clapton, has died aged 71, his family said on Saturday. Bruce co-wrote some of Cream's biggest hits including "Sunshine of Your Love" and "I Feel Free" before the band broke up after only two years in 1968. Bruce, who was born in Glasgow, began playing bass as a teenager and dropped out of music school because he was not allowed to play jazz.

Jack Bruce, former Cream man is the headline in the obit in the Guardian. Bruce played bass, sang and was the principal songwriter in Cream, but even leaving aside that group, in which he played with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, his CV reads like a comprehensive guide to the British blues boom, with spells in Alexis Korner’s Blues Inc, the Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Manfred Mann.
  Embedded, it has video of Cream playing White Room live in 1968. That led me to finding a film made about the end of the group in 1968.

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  Jack Bruce: five songs that chart his journey through the 60s to Cream
  Here are five performances tracing the late Jack Bruce's journey from 19-year-old upright bass player to part of rock's first supergroup