Ginger Baker – Why? (2014)

Ginger Baker is a true music pioneer, known as the pioneering and innovative drummers of the 60s supergroup Cream (alongside Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce) and as one of the most colorful personalities of the last fifty years of music history. Inspired by African rhythms, such as Tony Allen, with whom he has recorded with Fela Kuti in the 70's, and the drumming of jazz heroes like Art Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones, put Ginger's unique percussion style the foundation for a totally new sound in rock. Now, over two years after the documentary'' Beware Of Mr. Baker'' the Jury Prize at SXSW and won Baker also for a younger generation again made ​​to the pop star who published Peter Edward Baker, who because of his red hair nicknamed'' '' ginger (ginger) carries his new album'' Why?'' the first in over 16 years. The eight pieces of the Baker and his quartet Jazz'' Confusion'' in Peter Gabriel's Real World has?'' Recorded studio for'' Why, reflect his influences from American jazz contrary to Afrobeat. In addition to the saxophone legend Pee Wee Ellis, who was already James Brown or Van Morrison as a musician and arranger to the side, also the bassist Alec Dankworth and percussionist Abass Dodoo be heard on this album. Together, they earn a seamless, intoxicating fusion of jazz and African rhythms. A guarantee that this intense music will captivate old and new Ginger Baker fans who know him for his Rockstar times with Cream and Blind Faith and the more than 100,000 Facebook fans, the'' Mr. Baker'' also because of the already mentioned documentary as one of the best drummers know that England has ever produced.

Tracklist:

1. Ginger Spice
2. Twelve And More Blues
3. Cyril Davis
4. Footprints
5. Ain Temouchant
6. St. Thomas
7. Aiko Biaye
8. Why?