A report on Rhythm and blues, Jazz, Jump blues and African-American music
The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.
- Rhythm and bluesIt was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
- Jump bluesSome of the most popular music types today, such as rock and roll, country, rock, funk, jazz, blues, rhythm, and rhythm and blues were created and influenced by African-American artists.
- African-American musicBlues and jazz were part of the same musical world, with many musicians straddling both genres.
- Jump bluesThe mid-1950s saw the emergence of hard bop, which introduced influences from rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues to small groups and particularly to saxophone and piano.
- JazzFeaturing a choked, screaming tenor sax performance by Illinois Jacquet, the song was a hit in the "race" category.
- Jump bluesIt replaced the term "race music", which originally came from within the black community, but was deemed offensive in the postwar world.
- Rhythm and bluesHe has used the term "R&B" as a synonym for jump blues.
- Rhythm and bluesAfrican-American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 19th century when the habanera (Cuban contradanza) gained international popularity.
- JazzThe term "rock and roll" had a strong sexual connotation in jump blues and R&B, but when DJ Alan Freed referred to rock and roll on mainstream radio in the mid 50s, "the sexual component had been dialled down enough that it simply became an acceptable term for dancing".
- African-American musicAn early 1940s style known as "jumping the blues" or jump blues used small combos, uptempo music and blues chord progressions, drawing on boogie-woogie from the 1930s.
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Blues
1 linksMusic genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by African-Americans from roots in African-American work songs and spirituals.
Music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by African-Americans from roots in African-American work songs and spirituals.
The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common.
Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to in print since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition.
In the 1940s, the jump blues style developed.
Rock and roll
1 linksGenre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, gospel, as well as country music.
In the same period, particularly on the West Coast and in the Midwest, the development of jump blues, with its guitar riffs, prominent beats and shouted lyrics, prefigured many later developments.