Songs for a Tailor

by Jack Bruce

Songs for a Tailor cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 August 1969
  • Label: Polydor
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 31:21
  • Community rating: 3.64/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The debut solo outing from the former Cream bassist allowed him to explore an eccentric fusion of classical, jazz, and rock influences unrestricted by a power trio format. Featuring idiosyncratic horn arrangements and introspective songwriting penned alongside lyricist Pete Brown, it stands as a complex, highly personal artistic statement.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, progressive, improvisation, melodic, complex

Tracklist

  1. Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune (3:38)
  2. Theme For An Imaginary Western (3:26)
  3. Tickets To Waterfalls (2:58)
  4. Weird Of Hermiston (2:20)
  5. Rope Ladder To The Moon (2:51)
  6. The Ministry Of Bag (2:46)
  7. He The Richmond (3:33)
  8. Boston Ball Game, 1967 (1:45)
  9. To Isengard (5:24)
  10. The Clearout (2:35)

Credits

  • Jack Bruce - primary artist, composed by, arranged by, vocals, piano, bass, vocals, piano, organ, bass, vocals, cello, guitar, piano, bass, vocals, guitar, bass
  • Ink Studios - artwork
  • Ralph - other [artwork got together by]
  • Pete Brown - words by
  • Jon Hiseman - drums
  • Art Themen - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Dick Heckstall-Smith - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Harry Beckett - trumpet

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