Ginger Baker's latest musical adventure may have come together accidentally, but the music the former Cream drummer and his colleagues play must have been gestating in his imagination over the past 60 years or so.
Long before world music became a marketing term, Baker was investigating African rhythms with his mentor, Phil Seamen. His early jazz listening will surely have included the encore, Sonny Rollins's St Thomas, and however much his subsequent lifestyle has ravaged mind and body, Baker's experiences in Blues Incorporated produced a pretty accurate musical impression of that band's harmonica master, Cyril Davies.
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