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  2. Rhythm and blues - Wikipedia

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    Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...

  3. Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance

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    The Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 1990 and in 1993. The award had several minor name changes: From 1970 to 1985 the award was known as Best R&B Instrumental Performance; From 1986 to 1989 it was awarded as Best R&B Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)

  4. Portal:Rhythm and blues - Wikipedia

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    Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...

  5. British rhythm and blues - Wikipedia

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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 a peak in the mid-1960s. It overlapped with, but was distinct from, the broader British beat and more purist British blues scenes, attempting to emulate the music of American blues and rock and ...

  6. Soul music - Wikipedia

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    Several terms were introduced, such as "blue-eyed soul", which is R&B or soul music performed by white artists. The meaning of blue-eyed soul has evolved over the decades. Originally the term was associated with mid-1960s white artists who performed soul and R&B that was similar to the music released by Motown Records and Stax Records. [34]

  7. The Dirty Boogie - Wikipedia

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    The illustration and logo for The Dirty Boogie was created by Sir Richard Wentworth, using techniques such as pen and ink linework and cut rubylith sheets. The album cover began life as a show poster designed by Wentworth to advertise a Brian Setzer Orchestra concert at Detroit's State Theater (currently The Fillmore Detroit).

  8. Musical ensemble - Wikipedia

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    A pops orchestra is an orchestra that mainly performs light classical music (often in abbreviated, simplified arrangements) and orchestral arrangements and medleys of popular jazz, music theater, or pop music songs. [clarification needed] A string orchestra has only string instruments, i.e., violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

  9. Contemporary R&B - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.. The genre features a distinctive record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement.