Musicology

Surman, Bruce & Hiseman - Surman, Bruce & Hiseman 1971

Jack Bruce joined drummer Jon Hiseman and saxophonist John Surman to record a session for BBC Radio Three’s Jazz in Britain series on the 10th August 1971. This session featured a number of specially recorded works, including Jack’s “Gone”, “Clearway” and the earliest recording of a piece that would feature as part of Jack’s live set both with his own band and with West, Bruce and Laing - the excellent “Powerhouse Sod”. In 1978 Jack Bruce reunited with Jon Hiseman and John Surman to record a new session for BBC Radio Three in June 1978 for the programme ‘At the Third Stroke’, part of the Jazz in Britain series. Three improvisational works were recorded, “Fifteen Minutes Past Three”, “Ten to Four” and “Twenty Past Four”, and the session was an interesting musical exercise.

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