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Description of Blues Jazz

 
So much jazz has roots in the blues, but this style is a closer hybrid of two. Blues Jazz starts with the steady beat and classic chord structure of the blues and laces it with instrumental improvisation. It developed in the 1940s and '50s in the jazz-friendly blues of artists like drummer/vocalist Roy Milton and his Solid Senders, and in the swinging vocals of blues shouter Jimmy Rushing. Artists like genre-hopping drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie continue to revisit Blues Jazz, keeping the style alive and well into the '90s.
 

Top Blues Jazz Tracks

 
Play Track Artist Price
1. Georgia On My Mind Ray Charles
$1.29
2. I Got a Woman Ray Charles
$0.99
3. You Don't Know Me Ray Charles
$0.99
4. Hit The Road Jack Ray Charles
$0.99
5. Crazy Love Ray Charles
$0.99
6. Here We Go Again Ray Charles
$0.99
7. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine Lou Rawls
$0.99
8. What'd I Say Ray Charles
$0.99
9. Fever Ray Charles
$0.99
10. It Had To Be You Ray Charles
$0.99
11. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind? Ray Charles
$0.99
12. He Touched Me (LP Version) Esther Phillips
$0.69
13. Unchain My Heart Ray Charles
$0.99
14. America The Beautiful Ray Charles
$0.99
15. Somewhere Over The Rainbow Ray Charles
$0.99
16. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Ray Charles
$0.99
17. Seven Spanish Angels (with Willie Nelson) Ray Charles
$0.99
18. You'Ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine Lou Rawls
$1.29
19. When Your Lover Has Gone Ray Charles
$0.99
20. Hey Girl Ray Charles
$0.99
21. I Can't Stop Loving You Ray Charles
$0.99
22. Georgia On My Mind Ray Charles
$0.99
23. Night Time Is The Right Time Ray Charles
$1.29
24. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (Rae & Christian remix) Dinah Washington
$0.99
25. Sinner's Prayer Ray Charles
$0.99
26. Georgia On My Mind Ray Charles
$0.99
27. Autumn Leaves Cannonball Adderley
28. Sweet Potato Pie Ray Charles
$0.99
29. Midnight Blue Kenny Burrell
$1.29
30. Relax Max Dinah Washington
$0.99
31. Lady Love Lou Rawls
$0.99
32. What A Diff'rence A Day Makes Dinah Washington
$0.99
33. Heaven Help Us All Ray Charles
$0.99
34. Hit The Road Jack Ray Charles
$0.99
35. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby Dinah Washington
$0.99
36. It Was A Very Good Year Ray Charles
$0.99
37. I Can't Stop Loving You Ray Charles
$0.99
38. What'd I Say Parts I & II Ray Charles
$1.29
39. Sugar Stanley Turrentine
$0.99
40. Busted Ray Charles
$0.99
41. Footprints Pat Martino
$0.99
42. America The Beautiful Ray Charles
$0.99
43. Me And My Gin Dinah Washington
$0.99
44. Unchain My Heart Ray Charles
$0.99
45. Compared To What Les McCann
$0.99
46. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning Ray Charles
$0.99
47. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Cannonball Adderley
$0.99
48. Busted Ray Charles
$0.99
49. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine Lou Rawls
$1.29
50. I've Got A Woman (Live) Ray Charles
$0.99
 

Blues Jazz Key Albums

 
Back To The Blues
$9.99
Blue & Sentimental
(Bonus Tracks) $9.99
Everyday I Have The Blues
$9.99
In A Grand Style
$9.99

 

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Blues Jazz Key Artists

 
Al Hibbler

Hibbler's jazz & blues soaked
vocals took him from Duke
Ellington'd band to solo
stardom.

Dinah Washington

Steeped in the blues,
Washington excelled at
jazz, pop and R&B.
Washington's jazz- and
blues-soaked vocal style...

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

Vinson always played a hot
jazz sax but it was his
haunting blues falsetto that
put him over the top.

Hadda Brooks

The lovely Miss Brooks
helped define sophisticated
boogie woogie and West
Coast blues.

Ike Quebec

A tenor sax player known
for his distinctive, powerful
sound, Quebec played both
energetic Swing and
mellower Soul-Jazz.

Jimmy Rushing

With or without Basie,
Rushing's barrel-chested,
blues-drenched, banshee
vocals smack you upside
the head.

Joe Williams

Williams became a star with
Count Basie's band in the
1950s and just kept getting
bigger and better through
out the decades.

King Curtis

This soulful saxophonist
was a key part of the 1960s
Atlantic Records jazz, blues
and R&B sound. Curtis had
many instrumental R&B hits...

Lou Rawls

A much-loved singer who
treads the line between
jazz and R&B, Lou Rawls'
elegant voice brings the
game to a whole new leve...

Ray Charles

This national treasure has
combined Gospel with the
best of secular music to
help give birth to soul, rock
and hard bop. Charles' sil...

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