Ginger Baker, the drummer of the British rock group Cream, which featured Jack Bruce in voice and bass , and Eric Clapton on the guitar , has died at the age of 80, his family reported this Sunday on his Twitter account .
"We are very sad to announce that Ginger died peacefully in the hospital this morning, thank you all for your kind words in recent weeks," says the message.
Ginger Baker is one of the three great British drums that marked the rock of the 60s, with Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones and Mitch Mitchell , in Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Born in Lewisham, a neighborhood in southwestern London, in 1939, this musician, who was going for a cyclist, debuted in the middle of a British jazz to the rhythm of blues rhythm.
In 1962, he replaced, in the group of Alexis Corner, pioneer of the British blues, certain Charlie Watts, who was leaving the formation to join the Rolling Stones.
Then, Ginger Baker touched the sky as a member of Cream, one of the most famous trios in rock history. In Cream, he distinguished himself by his endless solos and his style, based on lush cymbal games.
After the breakup of Cream , in 1968 , he was part of another mythical and ephemeral group, Blind Faith, before founding the Ginger Baker Air Force.
At the head of this formation where organist Stevie Winwood appears, he plays a psychedelic rock with rhythmic blues accents, with incursions into folk music, the inclusion of native songs and African percussions.
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