How does a jazz drummer make loadsamoney? By playing rock music would be the curt answer from Charlie Watts and Ginger Baker. Where the Rolling Stones anchorman indulges his love of bebop in off-duty line-ups, the Cream superstar and all-round wild man now fronts a group that draws on Coltranesque sheets of sound and West African polyrhythms.
Thanks to the acclaimed documentary Beware of Mr Baker,the old curmudgeon is being rediscovered all over again. “This is bloody hard work for an old bloke,” Baker growled towards the end of his opening set, sounding like a Ray Winstone character who