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Chris Barber’s Memories, Part 5

After the first Newport and Monterey jazz festivals took place in America, Harold Pendleton and I thought, ‘This is great - we should be doing this.’ The difficulty for us was finding somewhere big enough where they would allow you to do it.
The first National Jazz & Blues Festival was held at Twickenham, the seat [...]

The Graham Bond Organization

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 [...]