The first stone and roll consisted of rhythm and blues songs like "Rocket 88" and "Shake, Rattle and Roll" making an appearance in the popular music charts as well as R & B charts. "Whole Lotta Shakin 'Goin' On", the first hits by Jerry Lee Lewis R & B cover song that made number one on pop, R & B and country and western charts.
Musicians attention is little difference between jazz and rhythm and blues, and often recorded in both genres. Numerous swing bands (for example, Jay McShann's, Tiny Bradshaw and Johnny Otis's) also recorded rhythm and blues. Count Basie had a weekly live rhythm and blues broadcast from Harlem. Even a bebop icon like arranger tadd Dameron also arranged for Bull Moose Jackson and spent two years as Jackson's pianist after bebop establish itself in.
Most of the studio musicians in the R & B and jazz musicians. And it worked in another direction. Many recordings of jazz musician Charlie Mingus breakthrough is a veteran R & B. Lionel Hampton's big band from the early 1940s, which produced the classic recording "Flying Home" (tenor sax solo by Illinois Jacquet) was the breeding ground for many of bebop legend of the 1950s. Eddie "Cleanhead" is a mix of Vinson one person, a bebop saxophonist and blues Shouter.
In the first manifestation, rhythm and blues is the forerunner of rockabilly and rock and roll. This is very influenced by jazz and jump music as well as black gospel music, and influenced jazz in return (hard bop was the product of the influence of rhythm and blues, blues, and gospel music on bebop) and African tribal beat.
1950s is the decade for the main rhythm and blues classics. Overlap with other genres such as jazz and rock and roll, R & B also developed regional variations. Strong, distinct style straddling the border with the blues out of New Orleans and based on the rolling piano style first popularized by Professor longhair. In the 50's, Fats Domino hit the national charts with "Blueberry Hill, and" Is not that a Shame ". Other artists who popularized this Louisiana flavor of R & B included Clarence" frogman "Henry, Frankie Ford, Irma Thomas, The Neville Brothers and Dr John.
It was not until 1980 that the term R & B back to normal usage. During that time, James Brown's soul music and Sly & the Family Stone had adapted elements from psychedelic music and other styles through the work of players like George Clinton. Funk also became a major part of disco, a kind of electronic pop dance music. In the early 1980s, however, funk and soul had become sultry and sexually-charged with the work of Prince and others. At that time, the modern style of contemporary R & B came to be a major part of American popular music.
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Rhythm and Blues - New Jack Swing
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A fusion of hip-hop and R & B, new jack swing significantly differentiated using tapping chorus or bridge and use the drum machines like the Roland TR-leading 808. Guy's Teddy Riley and his group are credited with being the inventor of genre; Other notable figures include Bobby Brown, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Jodeci, and Boyz II Men. A female alternative, New Jill Swing, had been championed by acts such as Janet Jackson, Shanice, TLC, and PDT.
Rhythm and blues - Neo soul
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Neo soul combines hip-hop influenced R & B voice with soul classics from the 1970s. characterized by a true neo soul feel the ground, accented by soul-styled harmonies, and accompanied by hip hop beats the alternative. Generally have much smaller mainstream sound than general R & B. Some artists from this genre include Tony! Toni! Tone! Stone, Angie, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill and Jill Scott. The most famous of this genre for inclusion into the list of Alicia Keys, although some question its inclusion, because they felt his version of neo soul has been "dumbed down" for mass consumption.
Rhythm and blues - Hip-hop soul
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Basically, the new jack swing for the 1990s, hip-hop soul took the style further towards a pure hip-hop sound, usually accompanied by pictures, gangsta rap-esque brave. Among the most prominent figure is Montell Jordan, BLACKstreet, Groove Theory, and the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige. Note that although the use of "soul" term "in the name of this genre, is actually a subgenre of R & B, not a soul music (a genre that died in the early 1980s.)
Rhythm and blues - Quiet storm
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Quiet storm is a broad category of R & B and jazz-based music that mellow, relaxed and often romantic. Its name comes from an innovative radio program that originated at WHUR at Howard University in the mid-1970s, after Smokey Robinson's 1975 hit single and album Quiet Storm. Unlike contemporary R & B, quiet storm shows a little influence from hip-hop, and generally played for the urban adult contemporary crowd. Genres achieve great mainstream success during the 1980s with artists such as Luther Vandross, Anita Baker and Sade. Among other famous musicians quiet storm Lionel Richie, Gerald Levert, Joe and Brian McKnight.
