How's Tricks

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{{Infobox album

| name = How's Tricks

| type = studio

| artist = Jack Bruce

| cover = Jack_Bruce_How´s_Tricks.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1977

| recorded = October–December 1976, Manor Studios

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rock, jazz-rock, blues-rock

| length = 42:18 (initial release),
52:00 (2003 reissue)

| label = RSO

| producer = Bill Halverson

| prev_title = Out of the Storm

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Jet Set Jewel

| next_year = 1978

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/hows-tricks-r2822 |title=How's Tricks - Jack Bruce | AllMusic |first=Joe |last=Viglione |work=allmusic.com |accessdate=3 December 2011}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=2 |page=21}}

|rev3 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide

|rev3score = {{rating|1|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=166}}

|rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev4score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=92}}

}}

How's Tricks is the fifth studio album by Scottish musician Jack Bruce, released in 1977 through RSO Records.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|title=The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica|first=PETER|last=KRAMPERT|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=9781619115774 |via=Google Books}} It is credited to "The Jack Bruce Band".

The album peaked at No. 153 on the Billboard album chart in May 1977.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jack-bruce/chart-history/tlp/|title=Jack Bruce|magazine=Billboard}} It would be Bruce's last album released under Robert Stigwood's management (and, consequently, his last for RSO); 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.