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Sep 20, 2016 · Photo by Walter Larrimore, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives. Hear “Rhythm & Blues,” a Smithsonian Folkways playlist. One important stylistic prototype in the development of R&B was jump blues, pioneered by Louis Jordan, with his group Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. Originally from Arkansas, Jordan was a former member of Chick Webb’s ...
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...
- 1940s–1950s, U.S.
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Oct 18, 2023 · The tradition of R&B vocal groups that rose to fame in the 1960s continued in the 1970s, as bands like The Jackson 5 and The Commodores brought tight harmonies and infectious grooves to the ...
Rhythm and blues is a form of Black dance music that has its origins in the post-World War II era (1939–1945); the term itself is attributed to Jerry Wexler, a writer for Billboard, who coined it in 1949 for the magazine’s Black music chart to replace the term “Race Music” (a term in use since 1920). Rhythm and blues performers ...
Oct 18, 2023 · Their energetic shuffle rhythms, honking saxophones, and shouted blues vocals all profoundly influenced the early development of classic R&B. Classic R&B Era (1940s-1960s) 1940s
May 11, 2010 · And the connective tissue between jazz and rock 'n' roll is the post-WWII rhythm and blues performed by artists such as Louis Jordan, Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris and many others, most of whom came ...
Dec 15, 2023 · The Evolution of R&B Music: How “Rhythm and Blues” Has Changed Over Time. Rhythm and blues, commonly known as R&B music, has its roots in African American music traditions like the blues, jazz, gospel, and soul. Over the decades, R&B has evolved into an expansive musical genre that has heavily influenced pop, rock, hip-hop, and dance music ...
