| Título | Sello | Año | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Bootleg Him!" - Alexis Korner | Castle | 1972 | |
 | Músicos | ||
| Alexis Korner Peter Thorup - Robert Plant - Ginger Baker - Jack Bruce Charlie Watts - Graham Bond - Dick Heckstall-Smith Cyril Davies - Dave Holand - Alan Skidmore Andy Fraser - Paul Rodgers - Danny Thompson Terry Cox - John Surman - Chris McGregor Victor Brox - Lol Coshill - Annette Brox John Marshall - Chris Pyne - Johnny Parker Roy Babbington - Steve Miller - Ray Warleigh Harld Beckett - Henry Lowther - Peter Fensome Mike Pyne - Brian Smith - Nigel Stanger Malcolm Griffiths - Keith Scott - Dave Stevens Jack Brooks - Larry Power - Herbie Goins Colin Hodgkinson | |||
| Temas | |||
| 1.She Fooled me 2.I'm a Hoochie Coochie Man 3.Yellow Dog Blues 4.I wonder who 5.Dee 6.Oh Lord, don't let them drop that atomic bomb on me 7.Rockin' 8.Honesty 9.I got a woman 10.Mighty-Mighty Spade & Whitey 11.Corina-Corina 12.Operator 13.The love you save 14.Jesus is just alright 15.Tha's all 16.Evil Hearted Woman 17.Clay House Inn. 18.Love is gonna go 19.Sunrise 20.Hellhound on my trail | |||
| Comentario | |||
| Vamos con un recopilatorio con lo mejor de éste pionero del blues blanco (con permiso de John Mayall). Está lo mejor de él. Y ojo a la lista de colaboradores. ----------------------------- Alexis Korner:Blues guitarist and vocalist - a father figure for U.K. r&b. Played piano and guitar with Chris Barber's band in the early 50's: a jazz band with strong blues elements. He left Barber and joined forces with blues harpist Cyril Davies. They opened up the London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in Tottenham Court Road in '57. Ran the pub for three years and then they (re)joined Chris Barber's band as a blues duo within the band. In '62 they launched Blues Incorporated, their own r&b band. A turbulently changing outfit which included Art Wood on vocals (later formed the Artwoods), Ron Wood (Art's brother who became a member of the Faces and then the Rolling Stones), Dick Heckstall-Smith on sax (on to the Graham Bond Organisation and Colosseum), Spike Heatley and Jack Bruce on bass (later famous in the Cream) and Charlie Watts (the future Rolling Stone) on drums. Plus guests like the two future Stones Mick Jagger and Brian Jones - and vocalist Long John Baldry (later in Steampacket and Bluesology). In Nov. '62 harpist Cyril Davies left Alexis Korner and Blues Incorporated, forming Cyril Davies R & B All Stars. The last edition of Blues Incorporated was dissolved in '66 and Alexis founded Free At Last with Hughie Flint (ex-John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) on drums and (first) Cliff Barton (from Blues Incorporated) and (then) Binky McKenzie on bass. A loose mixture of jazz and blues. Group lasted a year and Alexis then worked with the New Church, Snape and as a solo act. Alexis toured in '68 with Danish group the Beefeaters. Afterwards the group's guitarist/vocalist Peter Thorup and Alexis began working together. On one hand as a duo ('68 - '72). On the other hand as leaders of the commercially successful C.C.S.: a "rock big band" with lots of brass. Worked in the late 70's with Rocket 88 (Bob Hall, Ian Stewart a.o.) and as a duo with bassist Colin Hodgkinson (Back Door, Rocket 88). Unarguably THE seminal "outside" figure in the Stones' early start. Half Austrian, half Greco-Turkish, Korner's family moved to England during the war, and in the 1940s he got into jazz, folk and R&B, learning boogie-woogie piano and then switching to guitar. His musical scene in the '40s was that of folk and folk-blues, such as Woody Guthrie and Big Bill Broonzy. In the '50s he joined Chris Barber, and along with other figures such as Cyril Davies pioneered a blues movement in England in the late '50s and early '60s that mixed blues (Muddy Waters, Broonzy) with influences such as traditional jazz, folk-blues and skiffle. Mick and Keith met Brian (and Ian Stewart) through visiting Korner in his clubs in the spring of 1962, which is how the Stones got their start. Charlie Watts, meanwhile, who at that time was not yet the Stones' drummer, was a permanent drummer with Korner's new band, called Blues Incorporated. Korner's London blues scene was also the start of many, if not most, of Britain's great blues-influenced rock bands and musicians of the 1960s, including Eric Clapton, Long John Baldry, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, future members of Cream and the Small Faces, and even Ron Wood's older brother Arthur Wood. Korner's own success never really expanded, however, beyond being recognized as the seminal influential figure that he was for all these artists, and particularly the Stones. As much as the Stones appreciated Korner, however, Mick, Keith and Brian felt their sound and tastes were decidely different. They saw in Korner a "jazzed-up" or "folked-down" approach to blues and R&B, that mixed in acoustic folk-blues of the Big Bill Broonzy sort along with its Muddy Waters, and eschewed rock & roll as such (e.g. Chuck Berry). The Stones wanted to develop a more electrified, rhythmically faster and more energetic brand of blues and R&B. ----------------------------- It was like watching a lot of white people trying to play the blues. And we were much different. We used to laugh and call them a bunch of jazzers. It just wasn't our kind of blues... Seeing Alexis didn't really give me confidence. It meant there was somewhere to play. At the time it was nice. - Mick Jagger ----------------------------- They had THEIR approach from the jazz angle, you know, Big Joe Williams, and the country stuff like Broonzy and Leadbelly and you know... They were kind of... they were rather half-folkies, half-jazz people. - Keith Richards ----------------------------- Nevertheless most of the Stones collaborated occasionally with Korner over the years. After being sacked from the Stones, Brian was considering joining a band of Korner's before his death, having renewed his friendship with him. In the 1970s, Keith collaborated on an album of his. And, most significantly, Charlie and Ian Stewart formed a new band with Korner, along with Jack Bruce, called Rocket 88, which gigged and released records in the early 1980s. Korner died of lung cancer on January 1st, 1984. Charlie and Ian took part in a concert held for his memory later that year. | |||
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