{"id":490948,"date":"2019-10-06T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=895483"},"modified":"2019-10-06T12:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T18:03:47","slug":"steve-winwood-remembers-ginger-baker-i-was-lucky-to-play-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/steve-winwood-remembers-ginger-baker-i-was-lucky-to-play-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Winwood Remembers Ginger Baker: \u2018I Was Lucky to Play With Him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Steve Winwood<\/a> remembered his former Blind Faith band mate Ginger Baker<\/a> Sunday, hours after the Cream drummer\u2019s death<\/a> at the age of 80.<\/p>\n

\u201cA very sad loss, and my condolences to his family and friends,\u201d Winwood wrote in a statement<\/a>. \u201cA loss also for his contribution to music. He was well-grounded in jazz from very early on, and later managed to combine this with African and rock music to create his own inimitable style of playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blind Faith formed following the break-up of Cream<\/a> and Winwood\u2019s brief split from Traffic; after one year together and one classic LP, Blind Faith also fractured, with Baker, Winwood and bassist Ric Grech laying the foundation for the jazz-rock outfit Ginger Baker\u2019s Air Force, with Winwood contributing to that band\u2019s debut album.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky to play with him in Ginger Baker\u2019s Air Force, and to meet and work with such luminaries as Phil Seamen, Harold McNair and Graham Bond. And also in Blind Faith with Eric Clapton and Rick Grech,\u201d Winwood continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough his appointment was very unorthodox (he showed up on the doorstep and said, \u2018Here I am\u2019) \u2013 he made a great contribution to the Blind Faith album which has withstood the test of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winwood added, \u201cBeneath his somewhat abrasive exterior, there was a very sensitive human being with a heart of gold. He\u2019ll be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following Baker\u2019s death Sunday, artists like Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson and Flea have paid tribute<\/a> to the legendary drummer, as did the family of late Cream bassist Jack Bruce.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Winwood remembered his former Blind Faith band mate Ginger Baker Sunday, hours after the Cream drummer\u2019s death at the age of 80. \u201cA very sad loss, and my condolences to his family and friends,\u201d Winwood wrote in a statement. \u201cA loss also for his contribution to music. He was well-grounded in jazz from very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 20:55:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}