Ginger Baker's Air Force (studio album) by Ginger Baker's Air Force
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (4 out of 8 tracks have been rated).
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All 8 charts that this album appears in:
Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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2025 | ![]() | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 83/100 | 1 |
2024 | Steppenwolf666 | 1970 2ND 100 | 23/100 | - |
2024 | ![]() | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 34/100 | 3 |
2021 | Steppenwolf666 | My most wanted vinyl albums pt 9 | 31/100 | - |
2019 | panapsal | 100 exclusive jazz-rock albums of all time | 90/100 | - |
2019 | Steppenwolf666 | Pokora's masterpieces of music (GB & Irish artists) | 8/100 | - |
2017 | ![]() | Top 69 Music Albums of 1970 | 58/69 | 1 |
2017 | ![]() | Greatest Fusion albums | 27/100 | - |
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 5 |
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60/100 ![]() | 07/11/2021 22:07 | TonySayers61 | ![]() | 64/100 |
90/100 ![]() | 05/07/2021 23:14 | ![]() | ![]() | 74/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 10/06/2020 00:23 | Moondance | ![]() | 72/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 07/27/2019 23:08 | TodFitz | ![]() | 63/100 |
90/100 ![]() | 05/01/2019 13:06 | jonty445 | ![]() | 90/100 |
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The line-up of musicians on this record is incredible. The one who might be easy to miss, even for knowledgeable people, is Phil Seamen. He was a legendary drummer in the energetic English jazz scene of the fifties and sixties, and he was a teacher and guru to Ginger Baker. You can find an interview where Baker calls Seamen his biggest influence, and calls him "God." So having Seamen in this band and doing extended jams together in these performances must have been a HUGE deal to Baker.
Typically stupid for Robert Christgau, who is an idiot but a famous one, to grumble in his "D+" review (!) about how much time is devoted to drum "solos" (duets and trios, more like) on this album. It's like complaining that Coltrane plays too much saxophone. If you don't like drums to take the spotlight, be advised that this is a drummer's album with special drummer guests. Really, Christgau wasn't the problem, it's whatever idiot editor at the Village Voice decided to give him a platform, that's who should have been taken out and shot. Anyway...
The vocals aren't great on a lot it. I don't know Cake, the group Jeanette Jacobs was in, but I don't think she was a very good singer...? She was Chris Wood's wife, though, and he's great, so she's in the band. Graham Bond's wife got in the band later, too, it was like that. Except Denny Laine's rather good little folk ditty, this album gets better when the singing stops and the jamming starts. The African stuff is very interesting--both Baker and Graham Bond were putting African music into their stuff at this time; there were African musicians doing stuff in London, Osibisa and whatnot, but not many white musicians embracing it as deeply as Baker at the time. It's a live album, the sound is so-so and it's a bit of a mess, but it's fantastic. They basically just set up grooves and go for it, it's their version of head-banging music, and it gets better as you turn it up.
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