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...
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British rhythm and blues (or R&B) was a musical movement that developed in the United Kingdom between the late 1950s and the early 1960s, and reached...
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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...
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NRBQ (redirect from New Rhythm and Blues Quartet)
(guitar) and Joey Spampinato (bass). Originally the "New Rhythm and Blues Quintet", the group was formed circa 1965. Adams disbanded it for a time, and the...
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Look up rhythm and blues in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rhythm and blues (R&B) is a popular music genre. Rhythm and blues or R&B may also refer to:...
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Red Hot Rhythm and Blues is the seventeenth studio album by American R&B singer Diana Ross, released on May 8, 1987, by RCA Records and EMI Records. It...
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1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, and jump blues, as...
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National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame is an independent organization whose mission is to educate and to celebrate, preserve, promote, and present rhythm and blues...
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and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and...
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This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in rhythm and blues for the year 2025. On January 3, Brenton Wood died at...
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Rhythm, Country and Blues (a.k.a. Rhythm Country and Blues) is an album featuring duets between R&B and country music artists on classic songs. It was...
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1950s in music (redirect from 1950s rhythm and blues)
and roll. Rock & Roll began to dominate popular music starting in the mid-1950s with origins in a variety of genres including blues, rhythm & blues,...
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Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra (also known as Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra) is a rhythm and blues band led by boogie-woogie and former...
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recognizable as blues or rhythm and blues tunes, but he relied heavily upon fast-picking techniques derived from traditional American country and bluegrass...
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Fireside, 2005. ISBN 978-0743201209 Bobbie Smith interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' February 2009 Some comments from Bobbie Smith for Soul Express...
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Rhythm & Blues is an American sitcom television series, created by Jordan Moffet, that aired on NBC for five weeks from September 24 to October 22, 1992...
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developed in African-American communities, the Jewish influence in rhythm and blues, particularly in terms of the music's presentation to a wider audience...
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and Mick Taylor. While some bands focused on blues artists, particularly those of Chicago electric blues, others adopted a wider interest in rhythm and...
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called "rhythm and blues" (R & B). As the music became more popular, more people wanted to perform it. General patterns that existed in the blues were formalized...
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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...
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Blues & Rhythm is a British music magazine dealing with all aspects of blues and gospel music. Founded in July 1984 it is - along with its American counterpart...
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Ike Turner (redirect from Ike; and Turner, Tina Turner)
various blues musicians such as B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, and Bobby "Blue" Bland. In 1954, Turner relocated to East St. Louis where his Kings of Rhythm became...
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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (redirect from Rhythm and blues chart)
various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, rock and roll, soul, and funk, it is today dominated by contemporary R&B and hip hop. Since its inception...
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the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing...
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The Blues Brothers (formally, The Fabulous Blues Brothers' Show Band and Revue) are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians...
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Grammy-nominated album Here And Now. The Kings of Rhythm backed Turner on his Grammy-winning album Risin' with the Blues (2006). After Turner died in...
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Cissy Houston (redirect from Cissy Houston and John Russel Houston)
session vocalist for several secular musicians in the rhythm and blues, soul, rock and roll, pop and rock genres. After initially joining her nieces' group...
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Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blues Song. Beyoncé has won it a record five times, while Babyface, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers and Alicia Keys have three...
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late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from British and American rock and roll, rhythm and blues, skiffle, traditional pop, and music hall...
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also folk Busty and the Bass Chantal Chamandy Chapter 24 The Dears Cindy Daniel Maïa Davies Céline Dion Sara Diamond – also rhythm and blues George Donoso...
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