Download Chello Hollyday’s new single “Let’s Make Love Tonight” on iTunes!!!
Download Chello Hollyday’s new single “Let’s Make Love Tonight” on iTunes!!!
Gerald Albright is an American jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Albright has sold over 1,000,000 albums in the U.S. alone. His self-produced music features him on bass guitar, keyboards, flutes, drum programming, and background vocals. Gerald Albright.Com
In line with Chello Holiday’s R & B release next week, we thought it might be a good idea to start including R & B in the Biltmore Records blog. The blog originally being a Hip-Hop blog continues to expand with new content and topics. A lot of the content has been contributed by an original B-girl who insists on anniminitty for whatever reason. In any event I asked the question yesterday is classic R & B a part of Hip-Hop? For once Google did not have the answer. I know the answer is technically no, however I will say that R & B was the Hip-Hop of its time, as was Jazz and Blues.
R & B Music has been around since the late 1930’s and the term Rhythm and Blues, R&B, was first introduced into the American lexicon in the 1940’s and also presented by Billboard magazine that same year. R&B is an African-American urban sound that evolved from blues and jazz. At that time it was described as rocking and jazz based with a heavy and insistent beat. In the 1950’s it merged with Rock & Roll, in the seventies was a part of Disco and later combined with Hip-Hop in the mid-eighties. Check out this list of the top 10 R & B Jams of all time. I don’t know how accurate it is but definitely some of my favorites. I know cause I listen to Old CD’s.
http://randb.about.com/od/rb12/a/Rhythm_Blues.htm
http://genresmusic.com/history-of-rb.html