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In the early 1950s blues music was largely known in Britain through blues-influenced boogie-woogie, and the jump blues of Fats Waller and Louis Jordan. [9] Imported recordings of American artists were brought over by African American servicemen stationed in Britain during and after World War II, merchant seamen visiting the ports of London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast, and in a ...
British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. In Britain, blues developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar, and made international stars of several proponents of the genre, including the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds, John Mayall, Eric ...
In June 1962 they recorded R&B from the Marquee, [4] actually recorded in Decca Records' studio. After touring the UK and headlining a residency at the Marquee, [2] by October 1962 there was musical tension in the band as some members wanted to play crowd pleasers like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs while Cyril Davies and others members were blues purists who wanted to play what they saw as ...
At the start of the British rhythm and blues boom the Graham Bond Organisation earned a reputation for playing aggressive R & B with prominent jazz and blues. Bond was the primary songwriter but encouraged the other musicians to contribute material, including Dick Heckstall-Smith's "Dick's Instrumental" and Ginger Baker's "Camels and Elephants", in which the drummer explored ideas he ...
This is an incomplete list of British blues bands and musicians. Individuals. Ian A. Anderson; Elles Bailey [1] Ginger Baker; Long John Baldry [2] Chris Barber;
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 ...
British rhythm and blues musical groups (3 C, 38 P) M. British rhythm and blues musicians (3 C, 7 P) S. British rhythm and blues songs (18 C, 3 P) Pages in category ...
This category contains rhythm and blues songs by British artists. R&B songs by British artists active during the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and/or 2020s should be categorized under Category:British contemporary R&B songs