Ginger Baker is probably best known as the drummer with British rock band Cream and also Blind Faith. Despite being hailed as The Greatest Rock Drummer he actually dislikes the title preferring the title "jazz drummer". To tie Ginger Baker down to one style however would be ludicrous as the man has mastered many styles and genres seems equally at home playing any type of music.

Following his tenure with a number of jazz bands in the late fifties and early sixties his career really took off commercially when he joined the Graham Bond Organisation. From here he formed Cream along with fellow Bond Organisation bassist Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton guitarist with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Cream were an instant hit particularly in America were they sealed their reputation with extensive touring and the release of the albums Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Fire. Following the split with Cream Ginger formed Blind Faith along with Eric Clapton Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. Once again the band enjoyed huge commercial success and played one massively attended open air gig in London's Hyde Park in June 1969. Following this gig the band released their only studio album the self titled Blind Faith before embarking on a successful American tour.

Ginger's next musical stop was his own band Ginger Baker's Airforce who released two albums of part studio part live recordings.

The band also performed in front of the cameras for German television and the extended performance has rarely been seen in full since it was taped in late 1970. This in studio perfromance which took place at almost the end of the bands creative life captures the third and  final incarnation of Airforce following the departure of Steve Winwood, Ric Grech and Chris Wood who had returned to Traffic by this time and Denny Laine and Trevor Burton who had returned to their own band Balls.

The line up for this performance consists of Ginger Baker: drums, Graham Bond: vocals, Hammond, Saxes, Ken Craddock: organ/guitar/ vocals, Steve Gregory: tenor sax/flute, Bud Beadle: saxes, Colin Gibson: bass
Aliki Ashman: vocals, Diane Stewart: vocals, Speedy Acquaye: congas. This studio date was the only date played by the band in October 1970 although this line up would return to Germany later in December for two more concerts. These would be the final concerts in Germany however for the Airforce before the band split. The performance captured by the cameras that October day in 1970 features amongst others the Cream track Sunshine Of Your Love both as part of an extended jam which included Early In The Morning a featured track from the first Airforce album and also later in the set as a stand alone performance and 12 Gates Of The City a Graham Bond composition which featured on the second Airforce album.

The total running time of this performance is over fifty minutes and for transmission on the 20^th October 1970 the decision was made to edit the performance and therefore the great majority of this historic and rare television appearance has remained in the vaults.

Ginger Baker remains a hugely influential artist and as such commands a massive fan base most of whom will be interested in this rarely seen archive performance.