Jack Bruce – Halfway To The Stars – The Recordings 2001-2003
All the recordings made by Jack and his band The Cuicoland Express between 2001 and 2003
It is a fine tribute to a uniquely gifted artist
Jack Bruce – Halfway To The Stars – The Recordings 2001-2003
Format: 4CD / Blu-ray Video Clamshell Box Set By The Legendary Jack Bruce
Label: Esoteric
Release: 2026
Release date: April 24, 2026
Includes the albums ‘Shadows In The Air’, ‘More Jack Than God’ and the double album ‘Live at The Milky Way’, recorded at The Melkweg in Amsterdam in October 2001, along with the concert video ‘Live at The Canterbury Fayre’, recorded in 2002.
‘Shadows In The Air’ was Jack’s acclaimed 12th studio album and saw him reunited with Eric Clapton on re-recordings of two Cream classics, ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’ and ‘White Room’, along with other notable guests including Dr. John and Gary Moore.
‘More Jack Than God’ was his next studio album and featured new material alongside new interpretations of Cream’s ‘I Feel Free’, ‘We’re Going Wrong’ and ‘Politician’. The live recordings featured in this set reveal the magic of Jack Bruce & The Cuicoland Express on the concert stage during this era.
‘Halfway To The Stars – The Recordings 2001 – 2003’ features newly remastered versions of all of these wonderful recordings, making them available once more for the first time in many years. It is a fine tribute to a uniquely gifted artist.
Website: https://www.jackbruce.com/
Tracks:
CD 1
‘Shadows In The Air’
01. Out Into The Fields
02. 52nd Street
03. Heart Quake
04. Boston Ball Game 1967
05. This Anger’s A Liar
06. Sunshine Of Your Love
07. Directions Home (for Tony Williams & Larry Young)
08. Milonga
09. Dancing On Air
10. Windowless Rooms
11. Dark Heart
12. Mr Flesh
13. He The Richmond
14. White Room
15. Surge
CD 2
‘More Jack Than God’
01. So They Invented Race
02. Follow The Fire
03. Kelly’s Blues
04. We’re Going Wrong
05. Bizniz
06. Progress
07. I Feel Free
08. Ricin (Daylight Gathering)
09. The Night That Once Was Mine
10. Milonga Too
11. Cold Island (for Cozy Powell)
12. Uh, Oh!
13. Politician
14. Lost In The City (Jam mix)
CD 3
‘Jack Bruce & the Cuicoland Express Live at The Melkweg, Amsterdam 2001’
01. Surge
02. Out Into The Fields
03. 52nd Street
04. Heartquake
05. This Anger’s A Liar
06. Sunshine Of Your Love
07. Milonga
CD 4
‘Jack Bruce & the Cuicoland Express Live at The Melkweg, Amsterdam 2001’
01. Windowless Rooms
02. Dark Heart
03. White Room
04. We’re Going Wrong / Politician
05. 52nd Street (Encore)
CD 5 – BLU-RAY
Jack Bruce & the Cuicoland Express
‘Live at The Canterbury Fayre 24th August 2002’
01. Surge
02. Sunshine Of Your Love
03. 52nd Street
04. This Anger’s A Liar
05. Theme For An Imaginary Western
06. Milonga
07. Windowless Rooms
08. Dark Heart
09. White Room
10. Politician
