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 ...

Like many musicians and fans who came of age in the 1960s, drum dynamo Kofi Baker had an epiphany the first time he heard the pioneering blues-rock-and-beyond power trio Cream perform. Kofi, whose San ...

Rock legend Ginger Baker died Sunday, October 6th at the age of 80. Just a month prior, his official Twitter shared news that Baker checked in to a hospital due to an unknown illness. Baker was best ...

There are lots of firsts and superlatives in the career of Ginger Baker, the drummer and bandleader who died Sunday morning at age 80. His death was announced by his family on social media; they had ...

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 ...

The late Ginger Baker could be just as explosive when not playing the drums as he was when battering out thundering polyrhythms and launching into the extended solos that made him a legend as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNITED KINGDOM (CNN) -- Ginger Baker, notorious hell-raiser and celebrated drummer in the supergroup Cream, has died at the age of 80 at a hospital in the United Kingdom. "Dad passed away peacefully," ...

(CNN) — Ginger Baker, notorious hellraiser and celebrated drummer in the supergroup Cream, has died at the age of 80 at a hospital in the United Kingdom. "Dad passed away peacefully," his daughter ...

Cream was among the most successful acts of its time, selling more than 10 million records. But by 1968 Baker and Bruce had worn each other out and even Clapton had tired of their deafening, marathon ...