INTO THE ROSE GARDEN

Disc One: 1. Morning Story, 2. Keep It Down, 3. Pieces Of Mind, 4. Tickets To The Waterfall, 5. Weird Of Hermiston/ Post War, 6. Band Introductions, 7. Spirit, 8. One,9. Out In The Fields.

Disc Two: 1. You Burned The Tables On Me, 2. Without A Word, 3. Smiles And Grins.

The recent death of Jack Bruce Band has seen a surge of a number of recordings come out, this is a nice recording of the Mannheim concert from early May 1975 that was never available before as far as I know on disc although present on tape for collectors. It shows the Jack Bruce Band with former Stone Mick Taylor that joined after leaving the band in   December 1974; the band assembled and soon toured Europe in spring of 1975 despite having no studio album to promote. Mick Taylor is in top form and his guitar work on songs like Keep It Down and Weird Of Hermiston/Post War is really superb. This is a great recording with all instruments very clear, too bad it is in mono, although we must say that it is clearly audible another recording below the main one that pops up in calm moments (probably due to the tape source). On the second disc the eponymous Without a Word lasts 14 minutes but it is bypassed by Smiles and Grins that clocks in at 26 minutes