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1962: Band Beat
1966: Jazz Beat
1967: Rhytm & Blues
1969: Blues is where you hear it
1972: In Concert
1983: Alexis Korner's Rhytm & Blues Show
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The Party Album
Get Off My Cloud
Live In Paris
'62 R & B From The Marquee
Sky High
Testament
On The Move
A new generation of the Blues
Born in Paris on April 19th, 1928 of Austrian and Greek parents, Alexis grew up in an environment dominated by business and European High Culture form which he rebelled in his early teens by falling in love with its complete antithesis- blues and jazz- and in particular the music of boogie woogie maestro Jimmy Yancey.
Alexis Korner was an inspirational figure in the history of British 'roots' music for nearly thirty years from the earliest days of the blues scene in this country [England] to his untimely death in 1984. He was a pioneer in every sense of the word; with Cyril Davies he opened the first blues club in Britain, formed the first white blues band in the world, gave the first major public platform to the Rolling Stones, Robert Plant and Free and through his broadcasting was the first to present 'world music' to public at large before anybody had heard the expression.
But he was a musician in his own right; guitarist, vocalist and writer. He caused great music to be played, but his own admission was technically limited and it was a constant source of frustration for him not to be able to translate from head to hands as well as he would have liked. Even so, I for one think his acoustic guitar playing and vocalisation during his years remain under-rated.
Yet, whatever was going on in his head and hands, what he never lacked for was heart His commitment to the playing of music was abolute and total to the point of obsession - an enthusiasm and energy which infected countless musicians from odl school mates who he might encourage with his own amateur efforts to major stars in the throes of re-thinking their careers, like Brian Jones who wanted Alexis to join him in his first post-Stones venture, which of course sadly never materialised.
He was taken ill around October 1983 and died on New Year's Day 1984. A Rolling Stone article from 1971 was headlined 'Alexis Korner, Father Of Us All', and when he died many inside the music business felt thay had lost one of the family.
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