Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984) was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a 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.
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British guitarist, bandleader, journalist and broadcaster. In the late 1940s and 50s he played traditional jazz and skiffle. With Cyril Davies, he formed the first British blues club, the London Blues and Barrelhouse Club, and the electric band Blues Incorporated (1962), a band whose members at once time or another included Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Eric Burdon, Mick Jagger, Long John Baldry, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones.
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