r&b and soul also, and electric folk, & some folk, and folk-rock... not really any jazz then, for this ppint., not 'cept the original, can't really tell if it's jazz, r&b or blues as it hadn't differentiated yet...
(went to the marquee once, instead of buying vinyl - came out with ears ringing, still ringing two days later... :-( - and some permanent damage done to the ppint.ish hearing then . .)
ppint:- Yeah, looking back they were good times with alot of the now world famous groups just starting up and performing in local clubs in London. I was an R&B/soul freak though, and didn't see any open-air free concerts apart from "Stones in the Park" (from a distance). I'd go to the Marqee though, to see the American Blues singers and their English counterparts, Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart, etc. I also saw Solomn Burke at the 100 club.
c'broek: *envy*, *envy*, *envy* :-); yr hmbl srppnt. was there in london at the time, but could barely afford a single a week, or maybe an lp a month, if no singles that month...
- did you get to any of the era's open-air free concerts - parliament hill fields, iirc, and the promoter was blackhill enterprises, so mostly bands & singers associated with emi's harvest label - but also fleetwood mac, and at least one other blue horizon or liberty act - ?
I've just realised its 50 years (plus a week or so) since I went to see the fantastic Stax/Volt Tour at the London Finsbury Park Astoria, where I was living at the time. I play the record and I still feel the excitement coming through. Sam and Dave knocked us out, but Otis raised the roof off the building. Uploading some scans of the program soon.