Peter Cetera in Bass Player

[JimK]

Originally Posted by dougjwray

To answer your question, Jack Bruce had just spent some time in the Tony Williams Lifetime. And, in 1968, he recorded an album called "Things We Like" with John McLaughlin, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Jon Hiseman. On this album, he plays only upright bass, and the music is straight ahead, uncompromising jazz.

As for Chicago... even on the very first album, they were too cheesy for me. For the rock band with horns thing, I preferred Blood Sweat and Tears. Chicago just were too midwestern for me, or something... like "lite" blues-rock and psychedelia.
But, to each his own.

I guess if you think Things We Like is "straight ahead"...then you would find Chicago's debut as "cheesy".


(FWIW, I love that Bruce album...no compromising & almost a '60s New Thing/out vibe...in other words, not straight ahead, IMO.
Love Chicago's debut...one of the best debuts, any genre, IMO).

[dougjwray]

Originally Posted by JimK

I guess if you think Things We Like is "straight ahead"...then you would find Chicago's debut as "cheesy".


(FWIW, I love that Bruce album...no compromising & almost a '60s New Thing/out vibe...in other words, not straight ahead, IMO.
Love Chicago's debut...one of the best debuts, any genre, IMO).

Jim, you're absolutely right-- going by the customary categorizations, it's not straight ahead, or even post-bop, but closer to "free jazz" or "new thing." Jack's talked about his Ornette Coleman influence.