R&B from the Marquee

Occupation

  • Cyril Davies: Vocals (tracks 3,5,6,7,9 ), harmonica
  • Dick Heckstall -Smith: tenor saxophone
  • Keith Scott: Piano
  • Spike Heatley: double bass
  • Graham Burbidge: Drums
  • Long John Baldry: Vocals (tracks 2,11,12 )
  • Teddy Wadmore: Bass Guitar ( Track 7 )
  • Big Jim Sullivan: Backing vocals (track 7)

R & B from the Marquee is the debut album by Alexis Korner 's Blues Incorporated. It was released in November 1962 on the Decca sublabel Ace of Clubs, and is generally regarded as the first recorded in the UK blues album.

Music history

R & B from the Marquee was included in the Decca studios in London's West Hampstead on June 8, 1962 ( and not, as the title might suggest, at the Marquee Club, where the band at that time occurred regularly). For this studio session Charlie Watts was by Graham Burbidge, the drummer of the Chris Barber band replaced, and with Spike Heatley on upright bass got another musician to use, which was not a then-current line-up of Blues Incorporated. These Blues Incorporated co-founder, harmonica player and singer Cyril Davies, who later became John Mayall and Colosseum saxophonist Dick Heckstall -Smith, Keith Scott came next Korner himself on acoustic guitar on the piano as well as Long John Baldry, who once said that he had to thank for just a flu infection by Mick Jagger that he came in the next recordings Davies as another "lead vocalist " for the course. Moreover refers Korner biographer Harry Shapiro in his liner notes to the remastered 2006-spec CD reissue, along with two other musicians whose names, however, were not mentioned in the first edition of the album, as both are listen only on one track, namely the E- bass Teddy Wadmore and guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, who, however, makes its appearance here only as background singers.

According to the musical direction of Blues Incorporated can be found among the twelve tracks that you picked from a total of fifteen for the original album for release, along with six original compositions by Korner, Davies and Baldry with Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters classics I Wanna Put a Tiger in Your tank, Hoochie Coochie Man (here as Hoochie Coochie ) and I Got My Brand on You and also made ​​famous by Muddy Waters Preston Foster number I Got My Mojo Working mainly classics of the Chicago blues, the one had prescribed in differentiation from skiffle boom of the 1950s and the perceived as too arrogant London jazz scene.

As R & B from the Marquee came into the record in November 1962 came the album, so Harry Shapiro in his published first in 1996 Alexis Korner 's biography, a mixed response among the reviewers, with meetings alone in the jazz magazines of the United Kingdom found, as for music magazines such as the New Musical Express and Melody Maker Blues at this time was not an issue. And hardly to be expected as in the frequent line-up changes with Blues Incorporated, the band presented at the time of the LP release already in a heavily modified human constellation than it was in June of this year. Not only had the co-founder Cyril Davies, the project now left ( and was replaced by Graham Bond), but also the rhythm section had been occupied with Ginger Baker on drums and Jack Bruce on bass from scratch.

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