By Nick Warburton
The Ealing Jazz Club (or the Ealing Club as it was more commonly known) was one of London’s most historically important music venues during the 1960s. Situated below the ABC bakery, opposite Ealing Broadway station, in the leafy West London suburb of Ealing, the club became renowned as London’s first significant R&B venue when blues enthusiasts Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies’s band Blues Incorporated debuted in March 1962.
A virtual who’s who of famous British R&B enthusiasts appeared on the club’s tiny stage over the next three years, including The Who, Manfred Mann, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, The Birds (with Ron Wood), The Tridents (with Jeff Beck), Wainwright’s Gentlemen (with Ian Gillan), the Soul Messengers (with Mitch Mitchell) and many, many more.
Nick Warburton has attempted to document all of the artists that played at the club between 1964-1965 would welcome any additions/corrections. More details can be found here:
http://thestrangebrew.co.uk/articles/the-ealing-club
