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Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and jazz and comedy recordings, released on the Chess and its subsidiary labels Checker and Argo/Cadet.
Bo Diddley beat takes its name from Bo Diddley and his eponymous song. The Bo Diddley beat is a syncopated musical rhythm that is widely used in rock and roll and pop music. [1] [2] [3] The beat is named after rhythm and blues musician Bo Diddley, who introduced and popularized the beat with his self-titled debut single, "Bo Diddley", in 1955.
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 ...
His 1955 rhythm and blues hit, "Bo Diddley", had a "driving African rhythm and ham-bone beat". [116] Beginning that same year, Diddley collaborated with various doo-wop vocal groups, using the Moonglows as a backing group on his first album, Bo Diddley, released in 1958. In one of the most well-known of his 1958 doo-wop sessions, Diddley added ...
[1] [2] Originally the "New Rhythm and Blues Quintet", the group was formed circa 1965. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Adams disbanded it for a time, and the group re-formed in 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 6 ] The quartet is known for its live performances, containing a high degree of spontaneity and levity, and blending rock , pop , jazz , blues and Tin Pan Alley ...
The Rough Guide to Voodoo (various artists) (World Music Network, 2013) Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (ANTI-/Epitaph, 2013) 2-CD set – performing "In Lure of the Tropics". [75] Cracking the Code, Stephen Dale Petit (333 Records, 2013) – piano and organ on "Get You Off" and "Hubert's Blues".
Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.
William James Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. [1] He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time.