British guitarist, bandleader, journalist and broadcaster. In the late
1940s and 50s he played traditional jazz and skiffle. With Cyril Davies he formed the first British blues club, the London Blues and
Barrelhouse Club, and the electric band Blues Incorporated (1962), a
band whose members at once time or another included Keith Richards, Eric Clapton,
Eric Burdon, Mick Jagger, Long John Baldry, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones.