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Ginger Baker & Friends Live @ The Jazz Cafe (Music)
UVP-GB-001
Tags:GINGER BAKER, Greatest Jazz Drummer, Cream, Blind Faith, Jazz, Music
About this item:
In August 2009, legendary rock drummer
Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Organisation, Cream, Blind faith, Airforce,
Baker-Gurvitz Army et al) miraculously reached his 70th Birthday. In
October he also published his long awaited autobiography Hellraiser
(publ: John Blake), a book that for various reasons has taken him over
twenty-years to complete. To coincide with these two momentous events a gig with special friends was held at Londons Jazz Cafe on 4th
November 2009.
This CD & DVD commemorates this historic & prestigious event
& invites you to share the music & atmosphere of the venue.
Ginger demonstrates his musical fluidity & prowess with a range of
numbers spanning the back
catalogue of his phenomenal career. introduced by Gingers granddaughter
Zara, He is helped by his special friends; guitarist/singer Chris Goss
(Masters of Reality), bassist extraordinaire Jonas Hellborg (PIL / Bill
Laswell etc) percussionist Abass Nii Dodoo (African percussion / various
artists), world renowned saxophonist Peter King, along with Gingers
daughter Leda Baker (Rubella Ballet & various artists) on
guitar/backing vocals. For the last two numbers Ginger is joined by his
surprise guest & very special friend Steve Winwood in a moving
reconciliation that sees them play two show-stopping Blind Faith numbers
and re winds timeto when they last played together in Ginger Bakers
Airforce in 1970.
The night is kept very intimate as Ginger includes the audience
throughout the night, taking them on a journey through his musical
discovery with tracks A la mute, Ants in the kitchen, Bemsha
swing, Rabbit run, Footprints, Sweet Wine, Iko Beiya and
finally Gingers special guest Steve Winwood who leads everyone through
a chorus of Happy Birthday before launching into his classic song
Cant find my way home & I had to cry today.
Paradoxically, they have found their way home, back to their musical
heyday & a balmy day in Hyde Park in June 1969 is readily evoked.
Happy Birthday Ginger.
