Word: korner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hothouse Latin rhythms of his homeland and in the high-flying horns of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Lee Konitz. Adapting them, molding them and memorably melding all these elements has got D'Rivera three solid Columbia albums, of which the most recent, Live at Keystone Korner, is selling nicely, thanks. He has also become a musician whose talents are much in demand for session work, as well as a concert performer whose travels, starting last month at Mikell's in New York City, are keeping him hopping from Manhattan to Helsinki to Fort Worth. Home...
...guitarist named Alexis Korner reigned as rhythm-and-blues king of the London club scene. Not only did his gigs at the Ealing Club provide a backdrop for crucial get-togethers attended by various future Stones, but Korner himself unknowingly forwarded musical history by releasing a certain singer and drummer from his group, freeing them to link up with two young guitarists named Richards and Jones. "If things were as they should be, Alexis would be right at the top," Charlie Watts said some years later. "It was a lot different then. People used to come up on the stand...