Traffic were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. They began as a psychedelic rock group and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as keyboards (such as the Mellotron and harpsichord ), sitar , and various reed instruments , and by incorporating ...
Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) [1] was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the progressive rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood with whom he co-wrote the majority of the band's material.
Jim Capaldi (2 de agosto de 1944 – 28 de enero de 2005) [1] fue un músico y compositor inglés con una extensa carrera de más de cuarenta años. Fue uno de los fundadores de la banda de rock Traffic en 1967 con Steve Winwood , con quien compuso la mayor parte del material de la banda.
El grupo se formó a fines de los 60 y estuvo dirigido por Steve Winwood, con Jim Capaldi (1944 - 2005), Chris Wood (1944 - 1983) y Dave Mason (n. 1946). Winwood se unió a la banda después de dejar de lado al grupo con el que tocaba hasta entonces: The Spencer Davis Group . Los cuatro componentes del grupo se encontraron en ocasiones de jam ...
Label. Island Records. Songwriter (s) Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi. Producer (s) Jimmy Miller. " Roamin' Thru' the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen " (album title: " Forty Thousand Headmen "), written by Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi, was first recorded by Traffic in 1967 or 1968.
28 de ene. de 2005 · January 28, 2005. Drummer Jim Capaldi, who co-founded the late-Sixties psychedelic blues band Traffic with then eighteen-year-old Steve Winwood, died early today of stomach cancer at a London ...
Primeros pasos. A la edad de 14 años Winwood comienza a tocar en Spencer Davis Group hasta abril de 1967, para luego ser cofundador de Traffic junto a Jim Capaldi y Dave Mason y posteriormente formar parte del super-grupo Blind Faith junto a Eric Clapton y Ginger Baker.