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Ginger Baker - Wikipedia. Peter Edward " Ginger " Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer. [1] . His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music. [2]
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- Cream, “White Room” (1968) Baker’s signature style is all over his playing on this Jack Bruce classic. He lays down a heavy groove during the verses, spelling out the backbeat with the bass drum, snare drum, and hi-hat, but he throws in little ornaments — quick micro-rolls on the snare, tumbling tom fills — that give the part a loping, intensely funky swagger.
- Cream, “Spoonful (Live)” (1968) Cream shone brightest onstage, where the three virtuosos had room to really dig into their material. Willie Dixon’s blues staple “Spoonful,” made famous by Howlin’ Wolf, was an ideal launchpad for the group, and on this nearly 17-minute version from San Francisco’s Winterland, you can hear Baker guiding the band from a sparse half-time shuffle to an incendiary hard-rock churn and back.
- Blind Faith, “Do What You Like” (1969) Baker and Clapton carried that exploratory spirit into their next band, Blind Faith, and the 15-minute, Baker-penned finale from their lone, self-titled LP showed how comfortable they were letting the moment guide them.
- Ginger Baker’s Air Force, “Aiko Biaye” (1970) After Cream and Blind Faith, Baker burrowed deeper into his singular blend of influences, and the first album by his group Air Force — a raw, celebratory set touching on African music, raucous funk, and driving psychedelic rock — plays like an extended glimpse into his musical mind.
Aug 21, 2023 · The late drummer Ginger Baker (unfiltered) on Led Zep’s John Bonham, his disdain for heavy metal, Cream’s birth and death, heroin, feuds with Jack Bruce, RRHOF, more.
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1 day ago · Of course, Baker wasn’t Bonham’s only influence as a drummer. Bev Bevan, the drummer famed most for his work with ELO, remembered the Led Zeppelin drummer’s fascination with musicians across the pond. “I’m not sure John was a fan of British drummers, though he must have been influenced by Tony Meehan and Brian Bennett and Clem Cattini ...
Nov 1, 2019 · He introduced Ginger Baker to something that would change the latter’s art and which would, in turn, have a profound impact in the world of music—African drummers and their rhythms. After an...
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Mar 2, 2016 · Counting down the very best tracks featuring Ginger Baker, of Cream, Blind Faith and Air Force fame.
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Oct 6, 2019 · Although the film presents a series of Baker hosannas offered by such modern-day drum masters as Stewart Copeland of The Police, a dyspeptic Baker is shown virtually immobile in a lounge chair,...
