Rhythm and blues

The focal point if this image is the tower because it is vertically tall and full-size compared to the other buildings surrounding the structure because they get smaller within the image. The buildings have an architectural design where it creates a rhythm by a repetition of straight vertical and horizontal lines. Also the shadowing helps create this illusion that makes it look realistic because in between the plaza there are two wide buildings where the right building is being overshadowed and…

guitar and electric bass. Rock also uses strong baseline and driving rhythms. Rock music, which was developed from rock ‘n’ roll, originated from the late 1940’s in the United States. It was influenced by country and blues music that started making a new sound using electric guitars and a balanced drum beat, which was a faster beat and rhythm instead of a slow one. Rock music also produced greatly on other genres like electric blues and folk. By the late 60’s mentioned as the golden age or the…

saxophonist based in Paris, Logan Richardson, released interesting albums in the past to make us curious about his next step. Shift, his Blue Note debut, was recorded with the illustrious Pat Metheny, Jason Moran, Harish Raghavan, and Nasheet Waits, but the new album, Blues People, features a new band whose exploration of sound allows a sensible coexistence between post-bop, blues, hard rock, hip-hop, and electronica. Throughout the 14-song repertoire, a past and present reflection on black…

Introduction Jazz music is regarded as a genre whose roots are traced from the communities of African-American ascent in the New Orleans. The development of jazz is associated with ragtime, blues and band music from the European military in the 19th and 20th centuries. Also, it is composed of blue notes, polyrhythms, improvisation, and response vocals. Different cultures such as the Latin culture in the USA have been added in the jazz music genre leading to the development of variations…

that shaped his music included county, blues, rhythm and blues music, and the popular tunes at the time. In 1954, Presley was scouted by Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records, and was put in a trio group with Scotty Moore and Bill Black at the age of 19. The trio recorded the first single with the songs That’s all right, mama by Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup and Blue Moon of Kentucky by Bill Monroe in 1954. The trio created a mix style of country and rhythm and blues music. The unique sound of…

their physical body in a way that matched the sound of the music coming from the piano. Similar to Theme and Variation, Rhythm and Blues was also used to speak to the peoples’ emotions, specifically the African Americans. R&B started to evolve from the years 1938-1945 and a couple of decades afterwards. According to Cahoon, “Billboard magazine coined the term rhythm and blues to rename its "race records" chart in 1949,…

Gospel music transformed rhythm and blues in the 1950's because of the influence it had in the 1940s. Gospel music was a type of outsider music. It came around in the early part of the 1930s and it made people feel better about themselves. There were many positives things that were told when people sang gospel music. It focused on the positive things in peoples lives. Gospel music influenced some R&B styles of music with styles such as call and response. One particular style that was developed…

Music is “an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color” (Dictionary.com 2016). Not only does this statement consider, and include the audio aspects of music, it also values the sentimental factors of music which plays a major role in the success of a song or album. Artists from the 1920’s to artists in 2016 all get to experience the rush of emotion when creating and forming new music. “I Feel Fine”…

Music has influenced many societies over the yea, including the civilisation humans. Music is a method of self-expression, inspiration, give voice to the voiceless.it a tool that uses to communicate, as seen through how ancient aboriginal cultures around the world have always used music to tell stories and express their history, culture and themselves as people. so music is always there no matter what, it is something that I personal have had the fortune in understanding; how it functions and…

In the late 1940’s, a new genre of music was starting to take shape. Music artists were starting to combine different elements of country, western, and rhythm and blues (R&B) to create what would eventually evolve into rock and roll. Of these earliest artists, Bill Haley and His Comets would rise to popularity and become known as (if not, one of) the Father(s) of rock and roll. Haley was not the creator of rock and roll, but he was the one that changed rock and roll from a “ ‘virtually an…