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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1966–68) In 1966, Eric Clapton (guitar) joined Jack Bruce (bass, vocals, harmonica) and Ginger Baker (drums) to form Cream, the first rock supergroup. These virtuosos fused blues, rock and jazz-like improvisation into a sound that became so popular it altered modern blues from a primarily vocal style into a music dominated by the ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

The first and arguably most famous of hard rock’s much touted ‘supergroups’, Cream comprised Eric Clapton (born Eric Patrick Clapp, 30 March 1945) on guitar/vocals, Jack Bruce (born 14 May 1943) on bass/harmonica/keyboards/vocals and Ginger Baker (born Peter Edward Baker, 19 August 1939) on drums, a trio who achieved lasting fame courtesy of their technically virtuosic, ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

Bass Drum The dominant feature of every military band is its big bass drum. Throughout the history of percussion instruments, this drum has been the mainstay of time-keeping, whether it is used for a marching army or in a late-twentieth century heavy metal band. Early versions of the bass drum (it was certainly known in Asia around 3500 BC) ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

counterculture, so psychedelic and Eastern-tinged music were superseded by the vocal histrionics of Janis Joplin and Joe Cocker, as well as the blues-based hard rock of bands like Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Breaking with the pop tradition of producing catchy, radio- and jukebox-friendly three-minute songs, these acts indulged themselves and their followers with far lengthier ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Albert King’s late 1960s and early 1970s recordings for the Stax label remain cornerstones of modern blues. Tunes like ‘Born Under A Bad Sign’, ‘Crosscut Saw’ and ‘I’ll Play the Blues For You’ are also an antidote to the over-the-top playing indulged in by so many contemporary blues guitarists. For King, a six-foot-four, 250-pound man possessed of a big ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

London’s traditional jazz scene to found Blues Incorporated in 1962. Among those passing through the ranks of this loose if inspirational amalgam were subsequent members of The Rolling Stones, Cream and Led Zeppelin. In the late 1960s, Korner too made the charts as singer with CCS, whose biggest hit, a cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’ ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

Of all the guitar players of the last 40 years, none produce music as confounding yet beautiful as Allan Holdsworth (b. 1946). His blinding speed, fluid legato, impossible intervallic leaps, perplexing chord voicings and unpredictable melodies have made his style one of the most mystifying to guitarists everywhere. Allan Holdsworth was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

, 1969) Billed as ‘the supergroup of all times’, Steve Winwood (keyboards, vocals), Eric Clapton (guitar), Rick Grech (bass) and Ginger Baker (drums) were an amalgam of ex-members of Cream, Traffic and Family. Launched with a free concert in London’s Hyde Park, they broke up after a troubled US tour. Winwood then reformed a Traffic that was to ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

Born in Henderson, Tennessee, in 1918, Eddy Arnold has not only shown remarkable longevity as an artist (his career spans seven decades and he has sold more than 80 million records); he was also a pivotal figure in country music’s dramatic stylistic shift during the 1950s from rough and rural to urbane and sophisticated. Speaking Through Song A ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

of the seminal blues guitar albums, characterized by the fierce, sustained notes that Clapton created using controlled feedback. Before the album was released, Clapton left to form Cream with fellow virtuoso musicians Jack Bruce (bass) and Ginger Baker (drums). Their jazz background was the perfect foil for Clapton’s blues and the band became superstars as a result of ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

censors, for their part, marked him down as a potential revolutionary. Verdi’s long and fractious involvement in censorship was at least partly the result of these suspicions. The Cream of his Contemporaries Verdi’s Ernani was another brilliant success; he was deluged with commissions and entered what he called his anni di galera – his ‘galley years’, in which he ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

and ballroom patrons. Within months, The Brazos Valley Boys had evolved into one of the biggest and best western bands in the country, featuring at various times the cream of western-swing players of the era, including fiddlers Keith Coleman, Bob White and Curly Lewis, and steel guitarists Curley Chalker and Bobby White. Thompson’s easing toward a ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

Europe and inspired The Rolling Stones, whose version of ‘The Red Rooster’ (‘Little Red Rooster’) reached No. 1 in Britain. His material was also recorded by The Doors, Cream and Jeff Beck. Later solo albums were not as successful, and in the 1970s his health began to fail. He died in a Veterans’ Administration Hospital in 1976. Styles ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

Joe Bonamassa, born in 1977, began playing guitar at the age of four on a small instrument given to him by his father. By the age of seven, he was playing Stevie Ray Vaughan songs on a full-size guitar. Bonamassa began performing in upstate New York at the age of 10 and was discovered by the blues great ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

, dug deeper in to pyrotechnic fusion with the Eleventh House and performed crystalline acoustic jazz in the mid-1970s. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Jazz & Blues Personalities | Cream | Sixties | Jazz & Blues ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel
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