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Decca. Songwriter (s) Fleecie Moore (credited) Producer (s) Milt Gabler. " Caldonia " is a jump blues song, first recorded in 1945 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. Although credited to Fleecie Moore, his wife at the time, Jordan is the actual songwriter. [2] The song was a hit for Jordan as well as several other musicians.
T-Bone Walker. Aaron Thibeaux " T-Bone " Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds. [1] [2] In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of "The 100 Greatest ...
Wynonie Harris (August 24, 1915 [2] – June 14, 1969) was an American blues shouter best remembered as a singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics. He had fifteen Top 10 hits between 1946 and 1952. Harris is attributed by many music scholars to be one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
Mitch Woods (born April 3, 1951, Brooklyn, New York [2]) is an American modern day boogie-woogie, [1] jump blues and jazz pianist and singer. [1] Since the early 1980s he has been touring and recording with his band, the Rocket 88s. [3] Woods calls his music, "rock-a-boogie," and with his backing band has retrospectively provided a 1940s and ...
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. [1] [2] It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, and jump blues, [3 ...
Jump Blues. Jump blues is a loud rowdy simplified blues influenced form of jazz that became popular in the 40s after the hard times of the 30s drove many big bands out of business. Patrons of noisy dance halls and clubs needed small groups that could match the volume of the departed big dance bands to fuel their entertainment.
Many of these blues elements, such as the call-and-response format, can be traced back to the music of Africa. The use of melisma and a wavy, nasal intonation also suggests a connection between the music of West and Central Africa and the blues. The belief that blues is historically derived from the West African music including from Mali is ...
