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Jack Bruce: Royal Court, London

Karl Dallas, The Times, 3 November 1970

WHEN JACK BRUCE played bass guitar with Cream, he extended what had until then been the instrument's limited range into nearly equal status with Eric Clapton's brilliant blues-based guitar. In the new band, Lifetime, which played in the Royal Court's "Come Together" programme on Sunday, he has a similar dialogue with a musician who is easily Clapton's equal, though his idiom is quite different.

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