Posted 5 hours ago5 hr Sorry if the question has been asked before but i cannot recollect it.Reason being i have received an Email asking the Question and to be honest i have not got a clue.so over to you guys and thanks & in advance for Your Help.Rick.
5 hours ago5 hr That’s a difficult one ! My first guess would be The Flamingo Jazz All-nighters which then went R n B - but my second guess for a “ recognised “ All-nighter by today’s standards would be The Scene Club
5 hours ago5 hr The first allniters weren't R&B or soul related, they go back to the jazz years -- late 50's / early 60's. London January 1959 & 1960 ... Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Roburt
4 hours ago4 hr Seems jazz groups still ruled the roost @ the Flamingo at the start of 1962. But during the early part of that year, jazz acts played the niter sessions BUT the acts on had started to also include R&B songs in their repertoire. Thus jazz front men like Earl Watson & Tommy Whittle were leading jazz outfits. Also on the bill were the likes of the Birch Heckstall Smith Quartet. Main man in this jazz group was Dick Heckstall Smith. He was soon to join Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. They cut the groundbreaking album 'R&B from the Marquee'. The following year, he was a founding member of that band's breakaway unit, the Graham Bond Organisation. So he became one of the UK's fore-runners in the R&B field (despite his 5 or so earlier years as a main man on the London jazz scene).MARCH 1962 Flamingo niter ad ... Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Roburt
Sorry if the question has been asked before but i cannot recollect it.
Reason being i have received an Email asking the Question and to be honest i have not got a clue.
so over to you guys and thanks & in advance for Your Help.
Rick.