Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

Korner also played on B. Dick Heckstall-Smith (2004) The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and blues Clear Books. In 1978 for Korner's 50th birthday an all-star concert was held featuring many of his above-mentioned friends as well as Eric Clapton Paul Jones Chris Farlowe Zoot Money and others which was later released as The Party Album and as a video.

Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "a Founding Father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.