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Jack Bruce, composer, singer, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, was born to musical parents in the shipbuilding city of Glasgow, Scotland on May 14, 1943.
His parents traveled extensively in Canada and the USA. Jack attended 14 different schools finishing his formal education at Bellahouston Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, to which he won a scholarship for cello and composition. He left the Academy and his homeland at the age of 17 because of poverty and discouraged by his professors' lack of interest in his ideas.

Jack traveled to Italy and then England, playing double-bass in dance bands and jazz groups, and joined his first important band in 1962 in London: Alexis Korner's Blues Inc., with whom Charlie Watts, later to join the Rolling Stones, was drummer. Jack left Alexis in 1963 to form a group with organist Graham Bond, guitarist John McLaughlin and drummer Ginger Baker. This group became the seminal Graham Bond Organisation, after John left,...