Ginger Baker - Do What You Like (2CD) (1998) {Polygram Chronicles}

Ginger Baker - Do What You Like (2CD) (1998) {Polygram Chronicles}
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Genre: classic rock, jazz, Afrobeat, blues rock

Do What You Like is a 1998 compilation by drummer Ginger Baker that combined three of his albums: 1970's Ginger Baker’s Air Force, 1970's Ginger Baker’s Air Force 2, and 1972's Stratavarious, plus a non-LP track and a song previously unreleased.

For a change, the late 1960s yielded up a supergroup that lived up to its hype and then some. Ginger Baker's Air Force was recorded live at Royal Albert Hall in January of 1970 – in fact, this may be the best-sounding live album ever to come out of that notoriously difficult venue – at a show that must have been a wonder to watch, as the ten-piece band blazed away in sheets of sound, projected delicate flute parts behind multi-layered African percussion, or built their songs up Bolero-like, out of rhythms from a single instrument into huge jazz-cum-R&B crescendos. Considering that this was only their second gig, the group sounds astonishingly tight, which greatly reduces the level of self-indulgence that one would expect to find on an album where five of the eight tracks run in excess of ten minutes. There aren't too many wasted notes or phrases in the 78 minutes of music included here, and Steve Winwood's organ, Baker, Phil Seamen, and Remi Kabaka's drums, and the sax playing by Chris Wood, Graham Bond (on alto), and Harold McNair, all stand out, especially the sax trio's interwoven playing on "Don't Care." Additionally, Denny Laine plays louder, flashier, more virtuoso-level guitar than he ever got to turn in with the Moody Blues, bending notes in exquisite fashion in the opening of Air Force's rendition of the Cream standard "Toad," crunching away on rhythm elsewhere, and indulging in some more introspective blues for "Man of Constant Sorrow." The original CD reissue, which sounded pretty good, was deleted in the early '90s, but this album has been remastered again and repackaged as part of the Ginger Baker retrospective Do What You Like on Polygram's Chronicles series. It's a must-own for jazz-rock, Afro-fusion, blues-rock, or percussion fans.

DISC 1 - LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
(Ginger Baker's Air Force)
1. Da Da Man
2. Early In The Morning
3. Don't Care
4. Toad
5. Aiko Biaye
6. Man Of Constant Sorrow
7. Do What You Like
8. Doin' It

DISC 2 - IN THE STUDIO
(non-LP single)
01. Man Of Constant Sorrow
(Ginger Baker's Air Force 2)
02. Let Me Ride
03. Sweet Wine
04. Do U No Hu Yor Phrenz R?
05. We Free Kings
06. I Don't Want To Go On Without You
07. Toady
08. 12 Gates Of The City
(Ginger Baker's Air Force 2 outtake, previously unreleased)
09. Sunshine Of Your Love
(Stratavarious)
10. Ariwo
11. Tiwa (It's Our Own)
12. Something Nice
13. Ju Ju
14. Blood Brothers
15. Coda

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