Live at Manchester Free Trade Hall '75 explained

Live at Manchester Free Trade Hall '75
Type:	live
Artist:	Jack Bruce
Cover:	Jack_Bruce_The_Jack_Bruce_Band_Live_'75.jpg
Released:	20 May 2003
Recorded:	June 1975
Venue:	Manchester Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Genre:	Jazz rock, progressive rock, blues rock
Length:	111:01
Label:	Polydor
Producer:	Mark Powell
Prev Title:	Shadows in the Air
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	More Jack than God
Next Year:	2003

Live at Manchester Free Trade Hall '75 is a live album by the Jack Bruce Band released in 2003. It was compiled from a rough mix of a recording of a performance at Manchester Free Trade Hall in June 1975, the only surviving remnant of an abandoned live album project. Bruce's bass guitar is not very prominent in the mix.

Track listing

All songs by Pete Brown and Jack Bruce, except where indicated

Disc one

1. "Can You Follow?" – 1:45
2. "Morning Story" – 7:56
3. "Keep It Down" – 5:45
4. "Pieces of Mind" – 5:56
5. "Tickets to Waterfalls/Weird of Hermiston/Post War" – 25:08
6. "Spirit" (Tony Williams) – 10:44

Disc two

1. "One/You Burned the Tables on Me" – 17:01
2. "Smiles and Grins" – 24:39
3. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Brown, Bruce, Eric Clapton) – 12:07

Personnel

Musicians

• Jack Bruce – vocals, bass guitar, piano
• Carla Bley – clavinet, Mellotron, organ, electric piano, synthesizer
• Bruce Gary – drums
• Ronnie Leahy – piano, electric piano, synthesizer
• Mick Taylor – guitar

Production

• Joe Black – project coordinator
• Paschal Byrne – digital editing, remastering
• Mark Powell – liner notes, producer, research
• Margrit Seyffer – reissue
• Phil Smee – CD package design