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    Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, jazz, and boogie woogie usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival.

  2. Nov 25, 2017 · Robert Fontenot. Updated on 11/25/17. The style of hard R&B that came to be known as "jump blues" had its origin in the economic belt-tightening that came during World War II. Swing bands, forced to downsize to a rhythm section and one or two soloists, began to compensate for their smaller scale by playing harder, faster, wilder versions of the ...

  3. A: Jump blues music is an up-tempo style of blues that emerged in the late 1930s. It is characterized by its energetic rhythm and prominent bass line, often played by a pianist. Jump blues is sometimes called boogie woogie, and it has been cited as a precursor to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

  4. Jump Blues refers to an uptempo, jazz-tinged style of blues that first came to prominence in the mid- to late '40s.

  5. This music, sometimes called jump blues, set a pattern that became the dominant Black popular music form during and for some time after World War II. Among its leading practitioners were Jordan, Amos Milburn, Roy Milton, Jimmy Liggins, Joe Liggins, Floyd Dixon, Wynonie Harris, Big Joe Turner

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