The drums always seem to be the butt of the musical joke. There are myriad jokes about drummers and how useless they are, and ...

Ginger Baker was the ornery jazz-schooled Thunder Machine behind the “total magic” of Cream’s improv-blues attack, whose signature drumming informed 60s rock and 70s Afrobeat. In 2015, four years ...

It wasn’t easy, but we’ve boiled the professor of prog’s most powerful percussive performances down to 10 key tracks ...

Maintaining the legacy of the late Cream drummer Ginger Baker remains vitally important for his son, Kofi Baker. “It’s pretty much everything at the moment for me. I was doing the Cream stuff before ...

Federal laws could help the NCAA supersede a patchwork of conflicting state laws and eliminate the threat of additional lawsuits. NCAA president Charlie Baker says the looming House settlement can be ...

Ginger Baker, who helped redefine the role of the drums in rock and became a superstar in the process, died Sunday in a hospital in southeastern England. He was 80. Ginger Baker, Superstar Rock ...

NEW YORK - MAY 30: Musician Jack Bruce poses for a portrait on May 30, 2001 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Karjean Levine/Getty Images) In 1997, I spent the day with Jack Bruce, the great Cream ...

Carmine Appice performing at a recent show. Carmine Appice is not a household name in the pop-rock business. But his drumming with Vanilla Fudge and Beck, Bogert & Appice, among others, has influenced ...

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 ...