Jump blues
The jump blues is a kind of Blues " up-tempo" orchestrated for Big band S. It is characterized by musical adaptations swing, an insistent rate/rhythm, vocal syncopated and energy ones, and the songs with the racées and comic words. The most important instrument in the jump blues was the Saxophone; the Guitare appeared in it only like rhythmic instrument.
The first efforts in this kind are appeared during the 1930s, and the kind reached a top of popularity during the 1940s and 1950s. The artists the best known ones of this kind was Wynonie Harris, Louis Jordan, and Big Joe Turner, which was the first black American musicians to reach success out of the race music (Rhythm and blues) or of the Jazz. The jump blues strongly influenced the sound of the Rock-and-roll of this time; the disc " Shake, Rattle, and Roll" of Joe Turner is one of the traditional recordings of this period, and provided a great success to Bill Halley, which made a taken again of the song.
Musicians
- Roy Brown
- Wynonie Harris
- Louis Jordan
- Smiley Lewis
- Jimmy Liggins
- Joe Liggins
- Jimmy Nelson
- Big Joe Turner
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