Too bad Jack passed away earlier this week, a big loss. May he rest in peace.
Anyway what we have here is his first solo album, recorded in 1968 (when Cream was still in existance) but shelved for two years until it's first release in 1970. This is the original UK pressing on Polydor from 1970.  
The cover is in VG+ condition, it has a sticker mark on the front, see picture for details.
The record is in NEAR MINT condition.

 

ORIGINAL 1970 first pressing that was actually recorded in 1968 while CREAM were together = the Lp was not released until two years later in 1970.
The crew involved is of course Jack Bruce, dynamic bassist vocalist with Cream together with a tight unit, including the legendary guitarist John McLaughlin and both Heckstall-Smith and Hiesman of Colloseum...
"Things We Like" was recorded a few months ahead of Cream's demise in August 1968, though not released till 1970, when Jack Bruce's solo career was well underway. Since then it's become hard to find, yet hasn't been accorded the kind of mythic status that other Britjazz albums of the era seemed to have had bestowed on them. It would be trite to suggest that jazz snobbery might be in effect here...or would it? Maybe the fact that Jack wasn't tempted to enjoy the poverty and critical hostility that was the lot of the British jazzer on a permanent basis caught the attention of the Jazz Police. Who knows..?
Bruce wrote these tunes when he was 12; he must have spent a huge amount of his childhood devouring industrial sized quantities of post bop jazz. These are vivacious, maybe even brash compositions, but they don't sound like the work of a 12 year old (particularly the stalking, episodic "HCKHH Blues" or the hectic, tumbling "Over the Cliff"). To play them, Bruce returned to the double bass and enlisted former Graham Bond colleagues Dick Heckstall-Smith and John McLaughlin, plus drummer Jon Hiseman of Colosseum. Like Bruce, all these musicians had grown up on a diet of R'n'B and rock as well as jazz, and were casually breaking down the doors between them.
Heckstall-Smith's raspy tenor (and occasional soprano)is the dominant voice, stuffed with equal amounts of blues honk and post bop technique. Occasional Roland Kirk inspired dual saxophone action livens things up too. Mclaughlin is on fiery form, with his scrabbly, distorted Hendrix-plays-bebop runs at an early but satisfying stage.
Meanwhile Bruce and Hiseman power things along at a fair old lick. What they sometimes lack in sophistication they make up for in drive and splashy energy. Bruce's love of Mingus makes itself felt in his solo spots, while his tangy melodies recall the warped Texas blues of Ornette Coleman.
Things We Like is definitely a forgotten gem, and digging it out of the vaults and into your collection is what we hope to do...
Jack Bruce: Upright bass John McLaughlin: Guitar Dick Heckstall-Smith: Saxes Jon Hiseman: Drums All compositions written and arranged by Jack Bruce. Produced by Jack Bruce. Recorded August 1968 Over the Cliff Statues Sam Enchanted Dick  (Medley: Sam's Sack Rill's Thrills) Born to be Blue HCKHH Blues Ballad for Arthur Things We Like
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