11 September, 2009 – 11:59 am
Listen to Ronnie Jones performing ‘I Need Your Loving’ with the Nightimers here:
Ronnie Jones was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1937, but a career in the US Air Force brought him over to the UK in 1961. He was discovered by Alexis Korner, although Jones himself credits Georgie Fame with giving him his first taste [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Bands at the Marquee, Music
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Also tagged Bill Evans, Billy Cobham, Blue Jays, Blues Incorporated, Flamingo, Georgie Fame, Hair, I Need Your Loving, John McLaughlin, Long John Baldry, Mick Jagger, Nightimers, Q-Set, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Jones, Steve Lukather, Toto
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27 February, 2009 – 10:27 am
The Marquee gradually got bigger, as live music of that nature became more popular, and then we wanted to do more blues and so on, not just traditional jazz, so we brought some American blues artists over to Britain, because we thought that the way to get hold of this music better was to have [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Bands at the Marquee, Music
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Also tagged Blues Incorporated, Chicago blues, Chris Barber, Cyril Davies, Guild Of Variety Artists, Harold Pendleton, Marquee, Muddy Waters, Musicians Union, Traditional jazz
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5 January, 2009 – 3:02 pm
Listen to the Graham Bond Organization play their 1964 single ‘Long Tall Shorty’:
Along with Alexis Korner and John Mayall, vocalist and keyboard player Graham Bond is considered to be one of the godfathers of early British R&B. An innovative performer, he mixed jazz influences with R&B and is credited as one of the first musicians [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Bands at the Marquee, Carnaby Street, Music
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Also tagged Blues Incorporated, Cream, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Eric Clapton, Flamingo Club, Ginger Baker, Graham Bond, Jack Bruce, John Mayall, John McLaughlin
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31 December, 2008 – 11:39 am
Listen to the Cyril Davies R&B All-Stars’ first single, ‘Country Line Special’/’Chicago Calling’:
Critics have hailed the Cyril Davies R&B All-Stars as the best British blues band of the early Sixties after the Rolling Stones. The line-up was largely poached from Screaming Lord Sutch’s Savages in 1962 by Leadbelly-inspired harp player/singer Davies after he left Blues [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Bands at the Marquee, Music
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Also tagged Billy J. Kramer, Blues Incorporated, Cyril Davies, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Jimmy Page, Marquee, R&B All Stars, Rod Stewart, Screaming Lord Sutch
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