How's Tricks

How's Tricks
Studio album by Jack Bruce
Released	1977
Recorded	October - December 1976, Manor Studios
Genre	Prog rock, jazz rock
Length	42:18 (initial release), 52:00 (2003 reissue)
Label	RSO
Producer	Bill Halverson
Jack Bruce chronology
Out of the Storm (1974) How's Tricks (1977) I've Always Wanted to Do This (1980)

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How's Tricks is a 1977 album by the Jack Bruce Band.^[2] It was Bruce's fifth album as a solo/bandleader.

The album peaked at No. 153 on the Billboard album chart in May 1977. It would be Bruce's last album released under Robert Stigwood's management (and, consequently, his last for the RSO Records label); although the Jack Bruce Band would remain under contract with Stigwood for another year, the band's 1978 album Jet Set Jewel was rejected by Stigwood and RSO as not commercially viable, with the band subsequently dropped from the label. Bruce's leaving Stigwood/RSO ended a fifteen-year affiliation that began in 1963 when Bruce joined the Graham Bond Organisation.

Track listing

Tracks 1-10 comprise the album's original 1977 release; tracks 11-12 are bonus tracks included on Universal/Polydor's 2003 reissue.

1. "Without a Word" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 5:26
2. "Johnny B'77" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 3:23
3. "Times" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown, Hughie Burns) - 4:49
4. "Baby Jane" (Hughie Burns) - 2:37
5. "Lost Inside a Song" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown, Hughie Burns) - 4:04
6. "How's Tricks" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 4:12
7. "Madhouse" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 3:45
8. "Waiting for the Call" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 5:48
9. "Outsiders" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 2;57
10. "Something to Live For" (Tony Hymas, Pete Brown) - 5:19
11. "Without a Word" (alternate version) (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 5:50
12. "Something to Live For" (alternate version) (Tony Hymas, Pete Brown) - 3:52

Personnel

• Jack Bruce: Bass, harmonica, lead vocals
• Hughie Burns: Guitars, lead vocal on "Baby Jane"
• Tony Hymas: Keyboards, vibraphone, vocals
• Simon Phillips: Drums, glockenspiel, vocals

References

External links

• How's Tricks at AllMusic