Steve, you know I don't like to be pedantic (but I wish some mudelf would change the spelling in this thread head!) but it's Ken Colyer (one L) the true founder of the British skiffle craze. Most British trad jazz players of that era started with either Ken or the George Webb band or escaped from the big dance bands. Most of the 60s British blues artists, even the Rolling Stones, played with or were influenced by Alexis Korner.

RtS
(when I were a lad...)