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The Best of Ray Charles is a compilation album released in 1970 on the Atlantic Jazz label, featuring previously released instrumental (non-vocal) tracks recorded by Ray Charles between November 1956 and November 1958.
In Full Gear is a double album that draws on various influences in its hip hop style, including R&B, jazz, dancehall reggae, and rock influences. It also incorporates beat-boxing, sampling technology, and live band performance. [3] "Freedom or Death" and "Talkin' All That Jazz" discuss credos of revolution and sampling, respectively. [4]
The band's second album yielded the song "Winds of Change", which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Instrumental. Hiroshima got its first gold album in 1985 with Another Place and the second with Go which followed it. The album Legacy was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album in 2010. Hiroshima has sold more than four million ...
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) In 1990 and 1993 it was awarded as Best R&B Instrumental Performance; Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous ...
Five years after Gábor Szabó's original recording, the song became even better known for a successful rerecording by singer and guitarist George Benson, whose 1976 cover was the title track of his album Breezin'. His version was recorded in January 1976 and released as a single in September of the same year, entering the American charts in ...
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 ...
The album spent 63 weeks on the Billboard charts, peaking at No. 16 on the R&B albums [2] chart and No. 50 on the Top Pop Albums chart. [3] In 1987, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental [4] and the song "Since I Fell for You" earned a nomination for Al Jarreau in the category Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male.
From 1959 to 2011, the Award was called Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group. In 2012, it was shortened to Best Jazz Instrumental Album, encompassing albums that previously fell under the categories Best Contemporary Jazz Album and Best Latin Jazz Album (both defunct as of 2012). [1]