Ginger Baker, one of our greatest drummers, is dead. They say he died last Sunday, at the age of 80. On the drums he was my teacher in spirit, a sensei from afar. My habit these days is to go out to ...

Ginger Baker, the prodigiously talented and volcanically temperamental rock drummer who helped form Cream, rock 'n' roll’s first supergroup, and inspired awe and imitation in a generation of drummers, ...