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Steve Winwood was on site at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden for the 2004 Jammy Awards. Winwood was the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award. Chris Robinson presented the award. In his brief acceptance speech, Winwood exclaimed, "It's nice to know I've been jamming for the past forty years!" Winwood and his band performed the event's final set, offering up favorites from every decade in his career, including "Gimme Some Lovin'," "Dear Mr. Fantasy", "Back in the High Life", and "Different Light".

It began under the radar, just a few rock-star friends looking for kicks.

They gathered to jam at Eric Clapton's house in Surrey on a February afternoon in 1969, and judging from tapes made shortly afterward, the union that came to be called Blind Faith was magic. Steve Winwood, stuck too long in Traffic, was there. So was Clapton and his longtime compatriot in the curdled power-trio Cream, drummer Ginger Baker. In a few weeks, bassist Rick Grech, of the hot UK act the Family, would be invited in.