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Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born August 19, 1939, Lewisham, South London) is an English drummer who gained fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organization (GBO) and Cream from 1966 until 1968. He later joined Cream bandmate Eric Clapton along with Ric Grech and Steve Winwood in the 1969 group Blind Faith. In the early 1970s, Baker toured and recorded with a fusion rock group, Ginger Baker's Air Force.

Baker's drumming attracted attention for its flamboyance, showmanship, and his pioneering use of two bass drums instead of the conventional single 'kick' drum. He is also noted for using a variety of other percussion instruments and for his application of African rhythms to much of his drumming. Evidence of this African influence can be appreciated in Ginger Baker's work in association with Fela Ransome-Kuti where he sat in for Fela's drummer Tony Allen in recording sessions published in 1971 by the Regal Zonophone / Pathe Marconi Label under the record title "Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 with Ginger Baker Live!"
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Cream backstage at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
While at times performing in a grandiloquent manner similar to that of Keith Moon of The Who, Baker was also capable of the more restrained playing he had heard with British jazz groups during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Baker also performed lengthy improvisational drum solos, his most famous of all being the thirteen-minute drum solo from "Toad", heard on Cream's double album Wheels of Fire.

Since 1986, Baker has released several albums of ethnic fusion and jazz percussion, and has toured with various jazz, classical music, and rock ensembles, including a reunited Cream. He has collaborated often with Bill Laswell. As well as bands carrying his own name, such as Ginger Baker's Air Force, Baker Gurvitz Army (1974-1976), Ginger Baker's Energy (1976), and the Ginger Baker Trio, which included jazz bassist Charlie Haden and Bill Frisell on guitar (recordings released in 1994 and 1996), Baker has also at various times been a member of Hawkwind (1980), Atomic Rooster (1980), Public Image Ltd (1986) and Masters of Reality (1990). In 1994 Baker joined BBM (Bruce-Baker-Moore),a short-lived power trio formed along with Jack Bruce and guitarist Gary Moore.

Discography

Cream Discography

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Cream in 2005

Solo Discography

Other

Gear

Baker's kit is DW but used to be Ludwig back in the 60's and 70's; all cymbals are Zildjian. The rivet Ride cymbal and the HiHats were used on the last Cream shows in '68.

Drums 10"x 8" 12" x 8" 13" x 10" 14" x 12" Toms (all on stands) 20"x 14" & 22" x 14" Bass Drums 13" Craviotto DW Snare 14" Leedy Snare (Spare) DW 5000 Bass Drum Pedals 4 DW cymbal stands 1 DW HiHat Stand 1 DW Snare Stand Zildjian Ginger Baker 7a sticks

Cymbals: 16" K Crash 14" Hi Hats 8" Splash 8" EFX #1 Splash 10" EFX #1 Splash 8" Splash 13" Hat 23" Rivet Ride 18" China 18" Medium Crash

2 Cowbells

DW heads were used for the Albert shows, but now Ginger will be using Remo heads.

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Ginger Baker - Jack Bruce - Eric Clapton
Pete Brown - Felix Pappalardi - Martin Sharp
Gail Collins - Janet Godfrey - George Harrison - Mike Taylor
Discography
Fresh Cream - Disraeli Gears - Wheels of Fire - Goodbye
Live Cream - Live Cream Volume II - BBC Sessions - Royal Albert Hall 2005
Heavy Cream - - The Very Best of Cream - Those Were the Days - - Cream Gold
Songwriters covered by Cream
William Bell - James Bracken - Howlin' Wolf - Tony Colton - Willie Dixon - Skip James
Robert Johnson - Booker T. Jones - Blind Joe Reynolds - Ray Smith - T-Bone Walker - Muddy Waters
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The G.B.O.
(Baker/Bruce)		The Bluesbreakers
(Bruce/Clapton)		The Powerhouse
(Bruce/Clapton)		Blind Faith
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drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums or cow bell.

The term percussionist means a player on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to a person who plays classical or Latin percussion.
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Graham John Clifton Bond (28 October, 1937 in Romford, East London, England – 8 May, 1974 at Finsbury Park station, Finsbury Park, North London, England) was an English musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s.
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Cream were a classic 1960s British rock band, comprised of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Celebrated as the first great power trio and supergroup of rock, their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, pop and psychedelic rock.
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Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed "Slowhand", is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st century,[1]
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Richard Roman Grech, (November 1, 1946 – March 17, 1990) was an English musician.

Born in Bordeaux, France in 1946, Grech was a versatile, accomplished, and sought after British rock musician.
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Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born May 12, 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham, England) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to his solo career, was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Go and Blind Faith.
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Blind Faith were an English blues supergroup which consisted of Eric Clapton (The Yardbirds, Cream), Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Organisation, Cream), Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic) and Ric Grech (Family).
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Jazz fusion (or "jazz-rock fusion" or "fusion") is a musical genre that merges elements of jazz with other styles of music, particularly pop, rock, folk, reggae, funk, metal, country, R&B, hip hop, electronic music and world music.
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Ginger Baker's Air Force was a jazz-rock fusion band comprised of Ginger Baker on drums, Steve Winwood on organ and vocals, Ric Grech on violin and bass, Jeanette Jacobs on vocals, Denny Laine on guitar and vocals, Remi Kabaka on drums, Chris Wood on tenor sax and flute, Graham
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percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context and/or with musical intent.
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, October 15 1938 - August 2 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.
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Live! is a re-issued album recorded in 1971 and 1978 by Fela Kuti's band, Africa 70, with the addition of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker.
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Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. Moon became known for an innovative and dramatic style of drumming, often eschewing basic back beats for a fluid, extremely busy technique focused on fast, cascading rolls across
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The Who are an English rock band that first formed in 1964, and grew to be considered one of the greatest[1] and most influential[2] bands in the world.
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Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in and around New Orleans.

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Released December 9, 1966
Recorded July - October 1966 at Rayrik Studios in London, Ryemuse Studios in London
Genre Rock
Length 5:11
Label Polydor
Writer(s) Ginger Baker
Producer(s) Robert Stigwood


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Wheels of Fire
(1968) Goodbye
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Wheels of Fire is the name of the double album recorded by Cream. The release was largely successful, scoring the band a #3 peak in the UK and a #1 in the US.
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Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to the 21st century.
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Cream were a classic 1960s British rock band, comprised of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Celebrated as the first great power trio and supergroup of rock, their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, pop and psychedelic rock.
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Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner. He is married to Ethiopian singer Gigi.
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Ginger Baker's Air Force was a jazz-rock fusion band comprised of Ginger Baker on drums, Steve Winwood on organ and vocals, Ric Grech on violin and bass, Jeanette Jacobs on vocals, Denny Laine on guitar and vocals, Remi Kabaka on drums, Chris Wood on tenor sax and flute, Graham
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