⬇️ ALEXIS KORNER ⬇️
(Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner-b. 19 April 1928-d. 1 January 1984)
DISCOGRAPHY 1957-2021 (64CD/DVD)
Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984), born Alexis Andrew
Nicholas Koerner, was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who
has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British
Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the
1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English
blues musicians.
Alexis Korner was born in Paris to an Austrian father and Greek mother, and spent his childhood in France, Switzerland, and North Africa. He arrived in London in 1940 at the start of the Second World War. One memory of his youth was listening to a record by black pianist Jimmy Yancey during a German air raid. He said, "From then on all I wanted to do was play the blues."
(Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner-b. 19 April 1928-d. 1 January 1984)
DISCOGRAPHY 1957-2021 (64CD/DVD)
BIOGRAPHY
Alexis Korner was born in Paris to an Austrian father and Greek mother, and spent his childhood in France, Switzerland, and North Africa. He arrived in London in 1940 at the start of the Second World War. One memory of his youth was listening to a record by black pianist Jimmy Yancey during a German air raid. He said, "From then on all I wanted to do was play the blues."
After the war, he played piano and guitar, and in 1949 joined Chris
Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies. They
started playing together as a duo, formed the influential London Blues and
Barrelhouse Club in 1955, and made their first record together in 1957.
Korner brought many American blues artists, previously unknown in England,
to perform......