• Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, jazz, and boogie woogie usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the...
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    has also used the term "R&B" as a synonym for jump blues. However, AllMusic separates it from jump blues because of R&B's stronger gospel influences. Lawrence...
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    Yesterday". A well-known big band blues tune is Glenn Miller's "In the Mood". In the 1940s, the jump blues style developed. Jump blues grew up from the boogie-woogie...
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  • and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, jump blues, as well as country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records...
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  • traditionally-styled jump blues and rockabilly; San Francisco's Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, who showcased vocal jazz and blues influences; and...
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  • West Coast blues is a type of blues music influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated...
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    signed to a recording contract immediately. He recorded the song in a jump blues style with a swing beat. It was released in 1948 and reached number 13...
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  • Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. They come from different eras and include...
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    Setzer Orchestra (sometimes known by its initials BSO) is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1990 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer. In 1998, for...
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  • sports The Jump (talk show), basketball talk show (2016–2021) Jump blues, a musical genre Jump Incorporated, an Australian rock band Jump Records, a record...
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    The backing arrangement for the piece is fairly typical for R&B and jump blues at the time. However, Watson's groundbreaking performance on the electric...
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    Louis Jordan (category Jump blues musicians)
    became known as an innovative popularizer of jump blues, a swinging, up-tempo, dance-oriented hybrid of jazz, blues and boogie-woogie. Typically performed by...
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    Roomful of Blues is an American jump blues and swing revival big band based in Rhode Island. With a recording career that spans over 50 years, they have...
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    terms hipster or hepcat, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jump blues and jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s...
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    an action Sheehan had often urged. In January 2000, Ben Wilson of the jump blues band Big Dave & the Ultrasonics was chosen, and has since become a central...
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  • List of jump blues musicians List of Piedmont blues musicians List of soul-blues musicians List of Texas blues musicians List of West Coast blues musicians...
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  • directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz...
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    influences on rockabilly include western swing, boogie-woogie, jump blues, and electric blues. Defining features of the rockabilly sound included strong rhythms...
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    much easier to navigate through the dance floor while dancing. Jazz and Jump Blues singers helped popularize the style in the 1930s and 40s. Cab Calloway...
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  • Desert blues Detroit blues Electric blues Gospel blues Hill country blues Hokum blues Honky Tonk Blues Jump blues Kansas City blues Louisiana blues Memphis...
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  • II era Swing began to decline in popularity, and after war, bebop and jump blues gained popularity. Swing blended with other genres to create new musical...
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    David Johansen (category Jump blues musicians)
    pseudonym Buster Poindexter, accompanied by The Uptown Horns, performing jump blues, traditional pop, swing, and novelty songs. He also appeared as part of...
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  • The following is a list of jump blues musicians. Alberta Adams Sil Austin LaVern Baker Big Maybelle Big Three Trio Calvin Boze Tiny Bradshaw Jackie Brenston...
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  • Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens (category Blues songs)
    "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" is a jump blues song, written by Alex Kramer and Joan Whitney. Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five recorded the song...
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    1940s. An early 1940s style known as "jumping the blues" or jump blues used small combos, uptempo music and blues chord progressions, drawing on boogie-woogie...
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    1950s such as jazz (especially swing and bebop), traditional 1950s blues, jump blues, country, and rockabilly. In some popular music bands, keyboard instruments...
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  • Rocket 88 (category Blues songs)
    was not particularly original; "they had simply borrowed from another jump blues about an automobile, Jimmy Liggins’ 'Cadillac Boogie'". The song was a...
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    Louis Prima (category Jump blues musicians)
    entertainer, and bandleader. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece...
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    Texas, in the late 1930s. Pachucos are associated with zoot suit fashion, jump blues, jazz and swing music, a distinct dialect known as caló, and self-empowerment...
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    Switzerland 1998. The group is known for a versatile mix of rock and roll, jump blues, swing, country, roots rock and surf music elements. Hillbilly Moon Explosion...
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