Rocket 88
Rocket 88 was an English boogie band and supergroup founded in 1978 , named after the song of the same name by Pete Johnson .
history
Alexis Korner , Jack Bruce (Cream), Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones), Bob Hall and Ian Stewart (Rolling Stones) got together in 1978 to make boogie music in the style of the early 1950s . Several concerts were played, one of which was recorded in the Rotation Club in Hanover in 1979 with the Rolling Stones' mobile recording studio and released in 1981 as an album called Rocket 88 . After the deaths of Ian Stewart and Alexis Korner, the project dissolved in the mid-1980s. Another distinctive feature of their sound was a brass section, which consisted of changing line-ups. In 2011 a tribute album by pianist Ben Waters was released for Ian Stewart, who died in 1985, on which Bring It On Home to Me , recorded in 1984 at the Montreux Jazz Festival , also contains a track from Rocket 88.
literature
- Harry Shapiro: Alexis Korner: The Biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile of the band on allmusic.com
- ↑ Text on the album cover of Rocket 88 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Entry on alexis-korner.net ( memento of the original from October 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ben Waters: Boogie 4 Stu. A Tribute to Ian Stewart . With Charlie Watts , Jools Holland , Dave Green , PJ Harvey , Bill Wyman , Ron Wood , Keith Richards , Mick Jagger et al. CD, Eagle Records 2011. EAGCD441 GAS 0000441 EAG.
