"Blind Faith" was the first album done by Clapton and Baker following the break-up of Cream.
I had it bass ackwards. It has been a few years, but it is my kind of music. I like it just as much today as I did then.
One of the "Jewels" of my record collection (yes I still have records) is a Japanese pressing of the Album with the original (non-airbrushed) "R Rated" cover on extra heavy virgin vinyl. (I also have one with the original cover for "Electric Ladyland".)
Each of the three members of the band "Cream" came from a different musical background.
I'll make this easy.
One played Jazz.
One played Blues.
One played Rock.
Put the correct band member with their previous gig.
I don't think it's all that cut and dry. Jack Bruce started off as a big band double bassist and then played in a few blues bands once he switched over to electric bass. So I guess he would be one with the jazz background. He met Clapton when both of them played for John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Bruce played with Manfred Mann prior to joining Cream.
Ginger Baker was a member of the Graham Bond Organization, but then so was Jack Bruce. The Graham Bond Organization was a huge English blues band. Baker is real big into jazz and fusion today, but I don't know his background prior to Graham Bond and I'm not sure if he was still with them or not prior to joining cream.
As for Clapton, his interest has been in the blues since before he began playing his first guitar. As for the Yardbirds, even though they had the Pop hit For Your Love, they were a blues band. Hell The Yardbirds is where Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page got their big breaks as well. Clapton played for John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers prior to Cream. It was his work with the Bluesbreakers that made him world famous.
Good answer - and not as clear cut, but what I had in mind was, despite any other gigs, Jack Bruce was the only one who had previously played in a Rock band, Baker was known as a Jazz drummer (there is an apocryphal story which I have not been able to verify where he one-upped Mr. Mouth Buddy Rich), and of course Clapton is known as a Blues player.
However the synergy of Cream, whatever disagreements they had, was something special.