LONDON — John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died.
Aided only by drummer Keef Hartley, Mayall played all the other instruments for his 1967 album, ''Blues Alone.''
Mayall and Clapton shared a passion for Chicago blues, and the guitarist later remembered that Mayall had ''the most incredible collection of records I had ever seen.''
Mick Taylor, who succeeded Green as a Bluesbreaker in the late 1960s, valued the wide latitude which Mayall allowed his soloists.
In 2008, Mayall announced that he was permanently retiring the Bluesbreaker name, and in 2013 he was leading the John Mayall Band.

John Mayall, tireless and influential British blues pioneer, dies at 90