Sunday, April 1, 2012

From R&B to Jamaican popular music - Entertainment - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | April 1, 2012

From R&B to Jamaican popular music - Entertainment - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | April 1, 2012: "Louis Jordan, best known for his infectious, uptempo recordings like Cho-Cho-Chi-Boogie, Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Caledonia, Show Me How You Milk The Cow and many others, was indeed the single-most important catalyst and main progenitor in the development of the music genre that became known as rhythm and blues (R&B), which flourished in the late 1940s and 1950s.

It had a central influence on rock and roll that followed and for all intents and purposes, was the main contributor to the development of early Jamaican music. Some amount of confusion, however, exists when these early uptempo rhythms are compared to some present-day slow, soul-sounding tunes that go under the R&B banner."

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