Rhythm-and-blues

Rhythm and blues is a music genre with influences from jazz, gospel and blues that originated in the African American culture in the 1940s of the 20th century. Rhythm and blues in turn led partly to the emergence of rock and roll and soulinfluenced rock groups, and also European. In a broader sense, the term rhythm and blues also used as name for Afro-American pop music in General. ==Name[ Edit] == The term was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1948 by the American music magazine Billboard[1] [2]  and a year later entered by that same magazine to replace race music("rasmuziek"): a term used in the music flow from the years twenty, thirty and forty of the 20th century, was conceived by the black community that offensive in the United States. ==History[ Edit] == In the 1940s were different forms of danceable blues popular, including jump blues and Chicago blues. Jump blues was a swinging style that with a combo (small jazz ensemble) was played. The singing style was exuberant and rough, with high volume and a cracking voice. Popular performers were Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Sister Rosetta and Roy Brown.

Chicago blues was played with electric guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, electric piano or organ and drums. [3]  important names were Washboard Sam, Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley.

Also singer-guitarist John Lee Hooker was one of the founders of rhythm-and-blues. From the older delta blues and talking blues, he developed a highly individual style.

Many jazz musicians played rhythm and blues, such as the swing bands of Jay McShann, Tiny Bradshaw and Johnny Otis. Count Basie had a weekly rhythm and blues-live broadcast from Harlem. The icon of the bebop, Tadd Dameron, Bull Moose Jackson and made music for two years was his pianist, after he had committed himself to the bebop. Most of the rhythm and blues-musicians were jazz musicians and many musicians on Charles Mingus' jazz recordings were rhythm-and-blues professionals.

Overlapping with other genres developed rhythm and blues regional specializations. A strong current along the blues side came from New Orleans and was based on a smooth piano playing, launched by Professor Longhair. Other artists that a Louisiana-touch gave to the rhythm and blues included Clarence ' Frogman ' Henry, Frankie Ford and Irma Thomas.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fats Domino and Jimmy Preston were trailblazers of the rock and rollin the 1950s, a style that, among other things, the rhythm and blues was born. Other black rock-and-rollzangers were Chuck Berry and Little Richard. In the early sixties made Chubby Checker twist the hucklebuck and the popular, two dance styles that close aanleunden at rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 1950s and 1960s rhythm and blues took influences from gospel with artists such as Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, James Brown and Aretha Franklin.Used to have this style to denote the black performers themselves the name soul.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some European groups In the 1960s were influenced by rhythm-and-blues. The Rolling Stones called themselves to the song Rollin' Stone of Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker and admired them and they recorded the rhythm and Harlem Shuffle - Bob and Earlbluesduo. Other examples are The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things,Small Faces, The Animals, The Spencer Davis Group and The Who.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1969 replaced the name Billboard Hot Rhythm and Blues Singles by Best Selling Soul Singles. After 1970 was rhythm and blues in the strict sense over its peak, but the name persisted in the broader sense of pop music with Afro American roots in General. R & B style, a style of music that emerged after the Disco era in the 1980s, is also called the contemporary r & b called.'''