Alexis Korner
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Audio interviews
Interview by Karl Dallas, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1975
The Father of British Blues talks about splitting from skiffle in the late '50s; working with such luminaries as Chris Barber and Cyril Davies; his band Blues Incorporated which, at various times, included Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts; meeting Brian Jones and wet-nursing the early Rolling Stones; and talks at length about where the Stones go post Mick-Taylor.
File format: mp3; file size: 36.6mb, interview length: 39' 36" sound quality: ****
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Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 28 July 1956
ALEXIS KORNER tells Max Jones ...
Mr. Korner and his weird front line...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 May 1962
TOGETHER, THEY MAKE THE BEST TWISTING NOISE I'VE HEARD ...
Freddy Cannon Raves over OUR R & B music!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 8 December 1962
STRICTLY NON-working hours for Freddy Cannon whenever he visits Britain are spent, whenever possible, at London's Marquee jazz club, watching Alexis Korner at work. As ...
The Wildest Men in the World...
Overview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 15 December 1962
THE STORY OF THE BRITISH RHYTHM AND BLUES RIOT-RAISERS... ...
Cyril Davies: The Soul-Beat Revival...
Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 April 1963
MR. CYRIL DAVIS, purveyor of R&B is currently the white hope of Pye's new R&B campaign. With his new single, the scintillating, exciting 'Country Line ...
Back to Square 1 With 'R&B' Korner
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 19 March 1966
ALEXIS KORNER, once regarded as the founding father of British R&B, is to be seen weekly on TV's Five O'Clock Club. He also works with ...
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 6 August 1966
IT WAS AN historic evening at London's Marquee on Monday night when Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated made their first appearance there for nearly four years. ...
Family, Alexis Korner: College of Commerce, Manchester
Live Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 14 December 1968
MANCHESTER'S College of Commerce was packed out on December 4 for Family and Alexis Korner — along with a light show, two scantily-clad maidens, who ...
The Rolling Stones et al: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 July 1969
CHRIS WELCH SAYS: 'Somehow the magic worked' ...
The Rolling Stones: Free Concerts — The Aftermath
Report by Mark Williams, uncredited writer, International Times, 1 August 1969
FREE CONCERTS constitute a threat to the established promotional ethos. An opportunity for music to be played without the encroachments of contractual stipulations, of advertising ...
The Nice: Tear Gas, Stones and Broken Heads...
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 18 October 1969
A NICE WEEKEND BY RICHARD WILLIAMS! ...
Alexis Korner Couldn't Afford Jagger As Radio Vocalist So Mick Started Stones!
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 2 October 1970
Blues pioneer thinks Union out of date ...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 13 March 1971
ALEXIS KORNER — guitarist, singer, blues fancier and scholar, and bandleader with a remarkable record as a nurseryman of young jazz talent — sat for ...
Alexis Korner, Father of Us All
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 8 July 1971
The man who has influenced a universe of British musicians and movements ...
A Conversation With Alexis Korner
Interview by John Pidgeon, unpublished, 15 November 1971
This is a straight transcription of John Pidgeon's interview with Alexis Korner from November 1971 ...
Alexis Korner: Kornering The Market
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 15 July 1972
ALEXIS KORNER has been for so long at the heart of rhythm and blues in Britain, and touched off so many groups who have gone ...
Rock Routes: The London R&B Scene
Retrospective by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, February 1973
AT A TIME when most receptive organs — eyes, ears, pockets — were turned to Liverpool and its Merseybeat, another (and as it turned out ...
Audio transcript of interview by Karl Dallas, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1975
This is a transcript of Karl's interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Alexis Korner: Why Alexis Won't Join The Stones
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 15 February 1975
ALEXIS KORNER laughed, his suntanned face creasing up into laughter lines, his body rocking very gently back and forth. "Oh," he said. "No way." ...
Dick Heckstall-Smith: He Didn't Make A Million...
Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 28 January 1978
Although he paid a lot of dues — with Korner, Bond, Mayall, Colosseum and a handful of Rolling Stones — veteran R 'n' B tenorman ...
Interview by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 21 April 1978
IT IS WHOLLY fitting that the guest-list for Alexis Korner's 50th birthday party this week at Pinewood Studios should have read like a Who's Who ...
Alexis Korner: Man of the Blues
Obituary by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 2 January 1984
THE DEATH of Alexis Korner at the age of 55 from cancer marks the closing of a chapter in British music. Korner's role as one ...
Alexis Korner: Blues For Mr Korner
Obituary by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 14 January 1984
BOB FISHER, who worked with Alexis Komer on a TV history of rock, pays tribute to the man who was the chief architect of British ...
Alexis Korner: Bootleg Him (1973)
Sleeve notes by Kit Aiken, Castle, 1999
It’s hard to overstate Alexis Korner’s contribution to the development of British popular music. His position as a tirelessly driven champion of The Blues in ...
Sleeve notes by Kit Aiken, Castle, 1999
THE Körners were an Austrian Jewish family who escaped war-torn Europe to settle in London. Youngest son Alexis, having spent much time away from his ...
Blues Incorporated: How British R&B Trashed Trad
Retrospective by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, 24 September 2009
ALEXIS KORNER'S Parisian birthplace, Austro-Greek parentage, noble features and languid growl endowed him with an aura of exoticism unreflected in his musical partner Cyril "Squirrel" ...
see also Dick Heckstall-Smith
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