They also received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award.
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So anytime there's melody, that's what Omarion considers rhythm and blues.
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Hip-hop, folk, dance, rhythm and blues, gospel: they're all here.
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Little Walter and B.B. King frequently topped the rhythm-and-blues chart.
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Berry greatly overhauled it with his unique twists on rhythm and blues.
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Sharpton compared Buttigieg to the rhythm and blues star James Brown, while Scarborough evoked Sinatra.
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In the 1990s, the Cafe replaced Mikell's, a beloved jazz and rhythm-and-blues club.
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It got a shove from the rise of rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues.
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Aiming to market himself beyond black audiences, he mixed country songs into his rhythm and blues sets.
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East, whose real name is Michael Cameron Anderson, is a rhythm-and-blues/pop musician from Alabama.
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His mother, Jewell Hunter Derouen, was the sister of the rhythm-and-blues singer Ivory Joe Hunter.
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A stream of gifted Jamaican musicians cycled through mento to calypso, jazz, rhythm and blues, and ska.
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Mr. Mouzon had early experience in rhythm and blues and pop, including a stint with Chubby Checker.
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Foxx won an Oscar in 2005 for his portrayal of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles in 'Ray.
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Postmodern Jukebox presents a rhythm and blues '50s style cover of "MMMBop" that you never knew you were missing.
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He was part of a generation of musicians who helped lay the foundation for modern-day rhythm and blues.
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When her Columbia contract expired in 1966, Ms. Franklin signed with Atlantic Records, which specialized in rhythm and blues.
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Mr. Downing recalled that his black friends preferred rhythm and blues, while his white classmates listened to Jimi Hendrix.
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Age-defiance has long been a part of the music that young white musicians fashioned from black rhythm and blues.
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However, it was born from black musicians and the genres they had already created, like jazz and rhythm and blues.
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It shot to the top of the Billboard magazine rhythm and blues singles chart, where it remained for six weeks.
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Mr. Domino was a master at fusing music genres like rhythm and blues, jazz, boogie-woogie, gospel and even country.
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Holly presented the archetype of a performer who melded country, rock, and rhythm and blues, and gave an early inspiration.
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At 9, inspired by the rhythm-and-blues and swing records she often played, he asked her for a trombone.
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Back to Black is rhythm and blues through and through — a solid tribute to '60s Motown with a sharp edge.
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That kind of beach music, Chicago rhythm and blues — a nice, swinging, Yacht Rock tune that was about optimism and hope.
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Black feminist and queer texts (Thomas Glave's Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh), rhythm and blues from the 1990s, and mycelium.
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SHINee, founded in 2008 with a rhythm and blues sound, remained unusual because its five members stayed together for so long.
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The Beatles were an O.K. provincial rhythm-and-blues group, then they were masters, and they departed having made only masterpieces.
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At its core, its rhythm and blues married with pop production—a combination Carey became the archetype for nearly three decades ago.
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Otis Clay, a rhythm-and-blues singer who was also known for his charitable work in Chicago, died there on Jan. 8.
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For the most part, I listen to old-school rhythm and blues, but I like some of the young hip-hop artists.
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Edward, a graduate of the University of London, prefers rhythm and blues and dreams of writing a series of popular history books.
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At first, Lake Street Dive was a jazz band, but its repertoire now also has elements of pop and rhythm and blues.
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"Back in the days of the rhythm-and-blues groups, the high voice was the big thing," Mr. Williams explained years later.
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It charted No. 1 on the rhythm and blues charts, which was where most black recording artists such as Berry could be found.
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The song became a hit and was even nominated for a Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues Performance by a duo or group.
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More recently some black Americans griped when Elvis Presley filched classic rhythm-and-blues riffs and sold them back to white, mainstream society.
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Guests made their way across town to Cipriani 42nd Street, where they found cherry blossom centerpieces and a rollicking rhythm-and-blues band.
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John Mayall recorded "Parchman Farm," Mr. Allison's ironic adaptation of a prison blues; so did the English rhythm-and-blues singer Georgie Fame.
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Crime occurred in Philly, about eight years before a song you addressed to your lady reached No. 1 on Billboard's rhythm-and-blues chart.
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Mr. Harrison, who is 65 and a bass guitarist, is currently touring with Lee Roy Parnell, a rhythm and blues singer and guitar player.
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Jesse Engel is playing an instrument that's somewhere between a clavichord and a Hammond organ—18th-century classical crossed with 20th-century rhythm and blues.
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Left: Franklin holds her Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues performance of the song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on March 23, 1972, in New York.
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But prior to and during my coming-of-age, rhythm and blues, like its parent genre, soul, was my go-to for sounds of love.
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"Hamilton" tells the story of U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton in a musical blending, hip-hop and rap, rhythm and blues, ballads and Broadway showstoppers.
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"The Wiz" did — its rhythm-and-blues-infused score was just right for NE-YO, Mary J. Blige and other recording artists in that cast.
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The band melds rhythm and blues, rock and hip-hop into a strong, meaty sound, emphasizing repertoire from various pockets of the city's music scene.
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In my search, I found that you can find America on every horse ranch, and every rodeo, it is rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
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More important, Rosetta subtly instructs her in the dynamics of her particular kind of musicianship: gospel singing infused with the soulful power of rhythm and blues.
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In the 1950s, American popular rhythm and blues music spread overseas to Jamaica, and the sounds had a massive impact on the culture of the island.
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Like other white performers of their generation, they recorded what critics called blander (but often better-selling) covers of rhythm-and-blues hits by black artists.
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Reggie Lavong, a velvet-voiced radio personality who played rhythm and blues and more in the 260s on WWRL-AM in New York, died on Sept.
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In 1962 Mr. Baker joined Blues Incorporated, one of the earliest British rhythm-and-blues bands, beginning his contentious but musically rewarding association with Mr. Bruce.
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Jonathan Toubin has established himself as the city's most reliable jockey for stripped-down rhythm and blues and rock and roll of a mid-century vintage.
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Though Springfield's childhood had been soundtracked by fuming rows, there was also a deep appreciation of music: classical, jazz, and, Springfield's favorite, American rhythm and blues.
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Mack Rice, whose biggest hit as a singer and songwriter was the enduring rhythm-and-blues classic "Mustang Sally," died on Monday at his home in Detroit.
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I can really move — Where on Saturday night, you're at a juke joint, having a good time with rhythm and blues music, guitar and drum and bass.
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"It takes a lot of people by surprise — an accordion used in music that sounds like blues, soul, rhythm and blues, even rap these days," he said.
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Ms. Raitt, 66, has long had a knack for conveying the voice of experience, as a bottleneck guitar hero and a singer-songwriter steeped in rhythm and blues.
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With a lineup of lively air personalities playing the rhythm-and-blues hits of the day, it quickly became one of the top-rated stations in the market.
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Soul music, emerging from the turbulent and transformative midpoint of the 20th century, fused the white light of gospel music with the earthy impetus of rhythm and blues.
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Mr. Gooding, the father of the Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr., rose to fame as the lead singer of the rhythm-and-blues group the Main Ingredient.
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Both Mr. Carrier and Mr. Ardoin are descendants of zydeco accordion legends, and both mix up their sets, adding rhythm and blues and soul numbers to zydeco classics.
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Fats Domino, the New Orleans rhythm-and-blues singer whose boogie-woogie piano made him one of the biggest stars of early rock 'n' roll, died at 89.
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It was music to dance to—an up-tempo fusion of horns, Rastafarian drumming, American jazz and rhythm and blues—that also engaged with the issues of the day.
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It was like all these rare rock and roll records, a lot of rhythm and blues, rock-a-billy, surf, and all the late 20143s and early 60s stuff.
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Hamilton is an unconventional take on the life of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States, blending, hip-hop and rap, rhythm and blues and ballads.
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One of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Berry wove together beguiling narratives, fusing rhythm and blues with country and western — and transfixing the nation.
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In this concert at City Winery, he and the band will play tunes from their new album, "Press Play," whose influences include rhythm and blues, gospel and the Everly Brothers.
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At the time, rhythm and blues was being eclipsed by smoother sounds from Motown and elsewhere, and the '60s rock culture would soon prize the electric guitar over the saxophone.
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Ms. Franklin recorded steadily through the 1970s and continued to have rhythm-and-blues hits like "Angel," a No. 1 R&B single in 13 written by her sister Carolyn.
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Daniel dreams of becoming a rhythm-and-blues singer; Eli just wants to hold down the fort, although Daniel's habit of giving discounts isn't exactly helping them cover the rent.
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Snoop Dogg said the festival's first day would feature blues, gospel and country acts for the "aunts, grandmas and uncles," with hip-hop and rhythm and blues on the second day.
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That's where, from a white perspective, the real transgression lay, in rhythm and blues, race music, black vocal groups, gospel, blues and even in early country and western and hillbilly music.
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In the 21950s Mr. Brand played what were then known as "race records" by the likes of Memphis Minnie and Tampa Red, precursors of rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll.
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Fats Domino, the New Orleans rhythm-and-blues singer whom Elvis Presley once called "the real king of rock 'n' roll," sold 65 million singles in the 2503s and early '60s.
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She won three Grammy Awards, one for best rhythm and blues recording for the 21966 album "How Glad I Am," and two for best jazz vocal album, in 22006 and 19733.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 52%Synopsis: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" is a biographical drama of the incredible but short-lived life of rhythm and blues singer Frankie Lymon (Larenz Tate).
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Artists began to record music in ways that easily lent themselves to classification, and after World War II, "race" music and "hillbilly" became "rhythm and blues" and "country and western," respectively.
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His first national rhythm and blues hit, "That's How It is (When You're in Love)," came in 1967, with the following year seeing another single, "She's About a Mover," hitting the charts.
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Jacquees was happy to re-crown himself as the reigning King of R&B -- even in front of rhythm and blues royalty like Keith Sweat ... who bit his tongue around the youngin'.
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In a break with tradition, the group added bass, drums and keyboards to the standard guitar backup and developed a funky sound that split the difference between gospel and rhythm and blues.
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Still, there is a whiff of condescension in "Memphis," even as it righteously highlights important moments in history — like the "stealing" of black music, mainly rhythm and blues, by a white music establishment.
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The Mother-in-Law Lounge was originally opened in 1994 by Ernie K-Doe, the rhythm and blues singer, and was named for a song he recorded that topped the charts in 1961.
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In "Carma" (2016) the figure has a derrière clad in corduroy and padded to give that rounded fullness that has inspired many a rhythm and blues ballad and rap song (Baby got back!).
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Berry still called it "rhythm and blues" in the lyrics, but any listener can tell he's playing stone cold rock 'n' roll — his volcanic guitar solo at the start has revolution in its soul.
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Brown watched Hampton have a 220-point night against one of Italy's better clubs and then followed her to a nightclub, where Hampton, a talented singer of mostly rhythm and blues, had a gig.
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Along the way, he absorbed a blend of rhythm and blues, cowboy songs, gospel and jazz, as well as New Orleans' Mardi Gras music, boogie, barrelhouse piano and funk — or "fonk," as he pronounced it.
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Along the way, he absorbed a blend of rhythm and blues, cowboy songs, gospel and jazz, as well as New Orleans' Mardi Gras music, boogie, barrelhouse piano and funk - or "fonk," as he pronounced it.
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Dave Bartholomew, the producer, arranger, composer, trumpet player and bandleader who had a major hand in the shaping of New Orleans rhythm and blues and early rock 'n' roll, died on Sunday in New Orleans.
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Mr. Crawford's jubilant blend of rhythm and blues, rock, gospel and jazz ties him both to his home city and to icons like Ray Charles and Mr. Domino himself, who was among his musical mentors.
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Mr. Berry articulated every word, with precise diction and no noticeable accent, leading some listeners and concert promoters, used to a different kind of rhythm-and-blues singer, to initially think that he was white.
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"By adding blues tone to some fast country runs, and yoking them to a rhythm-and-blues beat and some unembarrassed electrification, he created an instrumental style with biracial appeal," explained famed rock critic Robert Christgau.
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Mr. Leonard said that when Mr. Cohen died, they were at work on an album of string arrangements of his songs and another of songs that he said were inspired by old rhythm-and-blues grooves.
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In 1959 he set up his own record label, West Indies Recording Limited, and helped develop ska music, an indigenous Jamaican sound that incorporated American jazz and rhythm and blues and was a precursor to reggae.
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In Detroit, the birthplace of Motown Records, Mr. Blacc pays homage to the city's legacy of rhythm and blues, soul and jazz when he visits Hitsville U.S.A., the record label's former headquarters and now the Motown Museum.
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For fans of rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll in the 240s and '21990s, the death of singer and pianist Fats Domino on Tuesday elicited both nostalgic solemnity and a desire to celebrate his musical legacy.
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Created by Mehr Mansuri, with music by Ms. Mansuri, Frank Sanchez, Eric Dozier and Sam Urdang, and dramaturgy by Joy DeGruy and Hinton Battle, the show relates Brown's journey through rhythm and blues, folk, bluegrass and gospel.
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Herb Hardesty, a tenor saxophonist whose name was synonymous with New Orleans rhythm and blues and early rock 'n' roll and whose lyrical solos were heard on nearly all of Fats Domino's hit songs, died on Dec.
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The greatest of his distorted videos was "Global Groove" (1973), a half-hour video collage that blends Nixon and Cage, Korean musicians and rhythm-and-blues dancers, into a cascade of psychedelic imagery that overturned television's commercial objectives.
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Ms. Hopkins had been performing gospel, blues and rhythm and blues for more than 19793 years when she took the stage in "Inner City," a musical based on a book of urban Mother Goose tales by Eve Merriam.
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"You saw the scruffiness, the down-dressing that really didn't exist in the American vocabulary: the mismatched look, the leather jackets, adopting some of the traditional rhythm-and-blues style," said the designer Anna Sui, a lifelong Stones fan.
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" The news release praised Presley as a musical icon who defined American culture to adoring fans around the world and "fused gospel, country, and rhythm and blues to create a sound all his own, selling more than a billion records.
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Mr. Mack was a country boy from southern Indiana who grew up on the Grand Ole Opry, rhythm and blues radio, and the gospel music he sang at his local church, influences that he blended as both a singer and guitarist.
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Hailed as the King of the Honkers, Mr. McNeely was at the forefront of a group of post-bop saxophonists who, in the late 260s, abandoned the heady reveries of jazz for the more gutbucket pleasures of rhythm and blues.
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The property presents an opportunity to see a slice of the city that has dealt with a great deal of tumult, but also one that always embraced Mr. Domino and paved the way for his first forays into rhythm and blues.
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Remaking 90s R&B in his image, D'Angelo was equal parts Sly Stone and A Tribe Called Quest; this collision of soul and street gave birth to a new brand of rhythm and blues that fit him like a glove.
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But the score for "A Bronx Tale" harks back to the rhythm-and-blues-inflected sounds of "Little Shop of Horrors," his first successful musical, written with Howard Ashman (with whom he collaborated on the first two of those Disney shows).
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Mr. Burgess, a fan of the blues singers Jimmy Reed and Big Joe Turner, performed a mix of rhythm and blues and old standards, but in 1955 the group changed its sound after opening for Elvis Presley on four dates.
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Andre Williams, who carved out a place in the 19886s rhythm-and-blues scene with earthy songs distinctively delivered, then fell on hard times as a result of addiction before enjoying a late-career resurgence, died on Sunday in Chicago.
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James Brown and Joni Mitchell were his idols and, under their seemingly disparate influences, he could throw down the thickest, hardest grooves of any rhythm-and-blues musician of his generation while weaving some of the most enigmatic, indelible imagery in pop music.
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What he thought he was playing was rhythm and blues, though there was not much blue about it: only he, on "Ain't That a Shame", could make "my tears fell like rain" sound like the best thing that had happened all week.
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"If you don't want jazz to change, you are putting a pillow over its face, and it's going to die," says Mr Glasper, whose acclaimed recording, "Black Radio" became a marker for its genre-defying blend of jazz, rhythm-and-blues and rock.
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Mr. Toussaint, who died last year at 77 after performing a concert in Madrid, was a soft-spoken yet statesmanlike eminence of New Orleans music: a pianist, singer-songwriter, producer and arranger whose influence ran deep through soul and rhythm and blues.
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She was nominated this year by the Blues Foundation for a Blues Music Award in the soul blues female artist category, alongside Mavis Staples and Bettye LaVette, and she was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2015.
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A crane operator and an unsuccessful rhythm-and-blues musician, Mr. Jackson was struggling to provide for his wife, Katherine, and their many children in the mid-1960s when he discovered his sons' budding talents and began pushing them into the music business.
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In the late 1950s, the disc jockey Tommy Smalls was making a name for himself at WWRL in New York as Dr. Jive; his popular afternoon show and the concerts he promoted helped established rhythm and blues in the New York market.
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The 23-year-old BAM Rhythm and Blues Festival at MetroTech continues to interpret the genre of R&B with rewarding openness, putting on free outdoor shows each summer by an eclectic assortment of artists who draw on pop, jazz, soul and more.
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From rhythm and blues, soul music as well as pop later on, the Motown Sound features a string of popular hits made famous by the label's African-American stars, who also influenced U.S. culture during the civil rights era with their songs.
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Meanwhile, some music experts wonder if jazz can survive: it represents only about 1.2% of recorded and streamed albums sold (compared with the 26.8% for rock and 22.6% for hip-hop and rhythm and blues combined), according to the 2016 Nielsen Music US Mid-Year Report.
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He points out that "a direct line can be drawn between 'Little Shop' in 1982 and 'Hairspray' almost exactly 20 years later" in that both were based on cult films and situated in the 1960s, with a beat grounded in doo-wop and rhythm and blues.
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But local rhythm and blues musician Deacon John Moore brought his brother and another musician to form an impromptu band, according to the AP. Friends and other guests, who had Saturday marked down in their calendars for months, managed to make the wedding despite its last-minute change.
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St Charles County Police confirmed the news this afternoon Berry was one of the first artists to catalyze rhythm and blues into rock 'n' roll music in the 21966s, drawing country and blues sounds together in his guitar licks and imbuing his performances with a radical and joyful showmanship.
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Wayne Cochran, who wrote a classic love-and-loss pop song while still in his early 21997s, then morphed into an energetic rhythm-and-blues singer with a devoted following and an outrageous pompadour before finding a new purpose in a Christian ministry near Miami, died on Nov.
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We learn about the forces that weighed on the superstar singer, including the criticism she faced for embracing pop instead of rhythm and blues; speculation about her sexuality; and, in the movie's telling, the feud between her husband, Bobby Brown, and Robyn Crawford, her friend and possible lover.
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But unlike other exponents of the Nashville Sound, who were drawn to material written expressly for the country market, Mr. James often recorded versions of recent pop and rhythm and blues hits, like Roy Orbison's "Only the Lonely," from 19733, and the blues singer Jimmy Reed's "Bright Lights, Big City," from 21973.
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Fats Domino, the New Orleans rhythm-and-blues singer whose two-fisted boogie-woogie piano and nonchalant vocals, heard on dozens of hits, made him one of the biggest stars of the early rock 'n' roll era, died on Tuesday at his home in Harvey, La., across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.
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Shaped in part by the influence of black filmmakers such as Spike Lee and the musical cadences of rhythm and blues, soul and hip hop, Singleton's film made stars out of rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube and future Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr., and featured an early performance from Oscar winning actress Regina King.
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Stuff like, "Woman Love" by Gene Vincent, "The Swag" by Link Wray, and "I Put a Spell on You," by Screaming Jay Hawkins, and then classics like "Louie Louie" and "Wooly Bully," all that rhythm and blues, rock-a-billy, surf, as well as Dick Dale, the Ventures, the Trashmen—all that kind of stuff.
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His musical tastes alone are a dead giveaway: Before going to prison, King loved classic jazz masters like Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong, but now that he's out, his tastes run to the tormented sounds of Thelonious Monk ("the madman in the corner pounding out the truth between the fabrications of rhythm and blues").
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Sitting in with Mr. Bartholomew's band, he came up with the memorable piano part for "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," one of the first rhythm-and-blues records to cross over to a pop audience Through the early 1950s Mr. Domino turned out a stream of hits, taking up what seemed like permanent residence in the upper reaches of the R&B charts.
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It's the first of many signs that the characters have no idea what they're dealing with: the harmonic memory of a country's evil and of a dream betrayed before anyone hummed it, from which nearly all other post-19th-century Western music grew into other vibrant incarnations: ragtime, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, rhythm and blues, pop, soul, rock 'n' roll, rap and hip-hop.
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When she got to "Flipside," a turbocharged new rhythm-and-blues tune, she belted the chorus but compressed just as much feeling, at a cooler temperature, into the second verse: I finally know who I'm supposed to be My mind was locked but I found the keyHope it don't all slip away from me A few weeks later, during a lunch interview, Ms. Jones allowed that those lyrics reflected her current state of mind.
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