Let's Start; Black Man's Cry; Ye Ye De Smell; Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die); Ginger Baker and Tony Allen drum solo (live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1978). Fela Ransome-Kuti: voice; Tunde ...

In late July 1971, on an unseasonably cold London day, a 12-piece band from Lagos, Nigeria arrived at Abbey Road Studios for two recording sessions. The band was called the Africa ‘70, and they were ...

Although best known for his early work drumming for the Eric Clapton-led bands Cream and Blind Faith, Ginger Baker was a born explorer who earned the kind of success that, paired with his skills and ...

A previously unreleased drum solo featuring Afrobeat legend Tony Allen and Cream’s Ginger Baker has been unearthed for a 50th anniversary reissue of Fela Kuti’s Live!, arriving November 19th via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The World’s Greatest Drummer is lying flat out on a bed in a West London hotel room when the man from Classic Rock is ushered into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The year was 1968, and ...

LONDON (AP) — Ginger Baker, the volatile and propulsive drummer for Cream and other bands who wielded blues power and jazz finesse and helped shatter boundaries of time, tempo and style in popular ...