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New Orleans, United States. New Orleans rhythm and blues is a style of rhythm and blues that originated in New Orleans. It was a direct precursor to rock and roll and strongly influenced ska. Instrumentation typically includes drums, bass, piano, horns, electric guitar, and vocals. The style is characterized by syncopated "second line" rhythms ...
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New Orleans is generally credited as the birthplace of jazz...
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Walter "Wolfman" Washington. Danny White (New Orleans...
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ISBN 978-0-472-12431-2. The New Orleans Rhythm Kings ( NORK)...
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Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is...
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Louisiana blues is a genre of blues music that developed in the period after World War II in the state of Louisiana. It is generally divided into two major subgenres, with the jazz-influenced New Orleans blues based on the musical traditions of that city and the slower tempo swamp blues incorporating influences from zydeco and Cajun music from around Baton Rouge.
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The drum set was born perfectly in sync with the blossoming of jazz, and New Orleans drummers were at the forefront in defining what it means to play this new, distinctively American instrument. “Everybody would come down here to record and say, ‘The beat, the beat, the beat,'” said rhythm-and-blues legend Earl King.
