Blues Incorporated

Blues Incorporated was a British blues band in the 1960s. It was the first European blue band to play electrically amplified. The influence of the band around frontman Alexis Korner is often underestimated, but it shaped the music of the 60s with much and was a breeding ground for bands like the Rolling Stones, Animals, John Mayall 's Blues Breaker or Free.

Foundation and History

The band was founded in 1961 by Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies in London. The Blue fans Korner and Davies had worked together earlier and opened a private music venue, the London Blues and Barrelhouse Club. First, the group played in Ealing Rhythm & Blues Club, which was in the basement of a teashop, directly on the London Underground station Ealing Broadway. As of May 1962, the band performed regularly at the Marquee Club - the first time in front of 127 guests. But just four months later there were - according to the SPIEGEL - counted more than 1000 visitors at each Blues Sunday. Although the rehearsed in June 1962 and in November it published debut album of Blues Incorporated is titled R & B from the Marquee, but was included in the Decca studios in London's West Hampstead.

As the Hammondspieler Korner and Graham Bond saxophonist brought to Davies left the band. Blues Incorporated had initially alongside original compositions classic Blue numbers of Muddy Waters, Jimmy Witherspoon, Leroy Carr, Ma Rainey or Willie Dixon in the repertoire, but also later took pieces of Ray Charles, WC Handy, Charles Mingus and Herbie Hancock. Stylistically between jazz, rock and rhythm and blues, blues incorported was a hotbed for musicians careers in the field of rock and jazz music. Especially in the early years of the occupation changed frequently; This was facilitated by the fact that the band concentrated on live performances and invited a circle of musicians around the band sessions. The last appointments with the later changing to folk jazz group Pentangle rhythm section Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, however, were quite resistant.

1967 sparked Korner on the band, but resigned in August 1968 to once again under this name for the BBC.

Importance

Among the bands that emerged from Blues Incorporated, including the Animals, the Graham Bond Organization, the group of Manfred Mann and especially the Rolling Stones. Korner's band was both a blues revival in Europe as well as the formation of a based on the blues British variant of rock music.

Discography

Singles

Albums