All the bands knew one another and we would hang out together. It was like a big pool of musicians. We would all assemble in these different places and there would be jams going on. We would go to clubs like the Cromwellian club in the Cromwell Road and Scotch of St James, which was [...]
Tag Archives: Jack Bruce
The Graham Bond Organization
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 [...]
Cyril Davies R&B All-Stars
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 [...]
Dick Charlesworth
22 December, 2008 – 4:56 pm
Clarinettist and bandleader Dick Charlesworth was one of the leading stars of the British jazz boom of the late Fifties and early Sixties. A civil servant, he formed his first band in 1957 and only quit his day job when, after winning the South London Jazz Band Contest the following year and performing for the [...]