Bruce Mack : Keyboards

Bruce Mack

Bruce Mack

Brook­lyn born, Musi­cian, Com­poser, Band­leader and Music Edu­ca­tor, Bruce Mack lives in West Orange, New Jer­sey.
Pri­mary instru­ments are elec­tronic key­boards, i.e.; syn­the­sizer, clavinet, organ, etc, var­i­ous per­cus­sion and voice.

A band­leader for nearly 20 years, B. Mack has led bands fea­tur­ing artists such as Guru of GangStarr, Atiba Wil­son, Mark Peter­son, Me’Shell Nde­geO­cello, Mar­que Gilmore, Tru, Jorge Sylvester, David Fiuczyn­ski, Brian Hard­grove, Val-Inc, Damon Mendes, Andrew Lamb and has part­nered with guitarist/composer-Marvin Sewell for var­i­ous col­lab­o­ra­tions since 1995.  Mack has per­formed with Gene Williams, Ver­non Reid, Maya Azu­cena, Cooper-Moore, Dean Bow­man, Mar­cus M. Miller, Men­ace, Edric DuBose, Vision Quest, and the Black Rock Coali­tion Orches­tra and is a reg­u­lar record­ing and tour­ing mem­ber of Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber.

Mack has com­posed music for Thirteen/WNET New York MTV, Naked Angels The­atre, Risa Jaroslow Dance Com­pany and film­mak­ers Gor­don Skin­ner and Jeff Giles. As pres­i­dent of the Black Rock Coali­tion for over 10 years, he co-produced 2 CDs for the BRC titled ‘Blacker Than That’ and ‘The Bronze Bucka­roo Rides Again’. Fol­low­ing the lead of the organization’s founder, gui­tarist Ver­non Reid, Mack made many con­tri­bu­tions to the orga­ni­za­tion such as pow­er­ful trib­utes to Jimmy Cas­tor, Jimi Hen­drix, and the con­nec­tions of African-American and Latin music in Amer­ica at venues such as Brook­lyn Acad­emy of Music’s Majes­tic The­atre, Town Hall, CBGBs, and the now defunct Wetlands.

Mack came unto the national music scene in 1985–86 lead­ing the band PBR Street­Gang with the release of indie-single ‘Chem­i­cal Pol­lu­tion’, co-produced with friend and band-mate Ken Edmonds. It was released on the inde­pen­dent label Attic Sounds, which they both founded and ran with a cou­ple of friends. The record did very well on the col­lege cir­cuit and received tremen­dous sup­port from the newly formed Black Rock Coali­tion (BRC). The sound was very Punk-Funk-Alternative-Rock-R&B. Other record­ings by PBR were fea­tured on the BRC’s ‘His­tory Of Our Future’ on Rhino Records and another release on Attic Sounds ‘PBR Street­gang Live in Philly’. In 1995, an indie label in Detroit (Zahmbee-Karlt Records) released a com­pi­la­tion CD titled ‘Detroit Under­ground’ that fea­tured “6:30?. Although pre­sented as a Bruce Mack solo project…it fea­tures all of PBR Streetgang.

Mack has led other excel­lent bands such as Rebels Be Phuncky, The Bruce Mack Expe­ri­ence and cur­rently Tricky Dilemma.

Dur­ing the past 10 years Mr. Mack has been a teach­ing model and instruc­tor for orga­ni­za­tions such as ArtsCon­nec­tion, Henry Street Set­tle­ment, Uni­ver­sity Set­tle­ment, Hud­son Reper­tory Dance The­ater (New Jer­sey) and  The Door – a multi-faceted youth ser­vices agency in New York City. And has also been the res­i­dent teach­ing artist at P.S. 3 in the West Vil­lage, NY.