Jazz Articles about Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner: Kornerstoned: The Alexis Korner Anthology 1954-1983

by Chris May
June 12, 2006

There's a stack of mighty fine jazz and blues music here, just about all of which has stood the passage of time well. But it has to be said that the other chief pleasure of Kornerstoned is historical, and of a train-spotting nature.

Korner, known as the Godfather of British Blues during his lifetime (1928-84), was a prodigious spotter of young talent, and many of the best known British R&B and jazz players of the '60s and '70s passed through ...