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| | ALEXIS KORNER. Ronnie Scott's Club. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Later, however, Korner was to be the catalyst of a new and vital movement in the history of British jazz - rhythm and blues - when traditionalists and modernists joined hands, initially at the Marquee, in Wardour St, in London`s West End. |
 | | One of Korner`s musical associates at this time was saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith, and in his autobiography, The Safest Place in the World (Quartet, 1989), he recalls: `Under cover of music-making, ideological struggle - wordless as arm wrestling, but no less intense for that - filled the little Fulham cellar (the Troubadour, Old Brompton Road). |
 | | Categories, though, were unimportant to Korner: he saw music as a seamless garment, and in his uniquely influential subsequent career as a journalist, broadcaster and musician, he was as likely to champion the music of Bessie Smith as that of Ornette Coleman, George Russell as that of Elmore James. |
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