Urban Blues
Description of Urban Blues
Urban Blues focuses lyrically on life in the city. The term "Urban Blues" was initially used to distinguish between Uptown and Country Blues styles, but came into its own as a style in the 1940s. Urban Blues encompasses everything from Louis Jordan's Jump Blues to the newest tweaks of jazz, including the crooning of Percy Mayfield and Ray Charles -- though always with a citified feel.
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Big Maybelle
Big Maybelle was one of the
most popular R&B/blues
shouters of the 1950s. Her
voice was as big as the
world. Her star faded in t...
Charles Brown
Seminal Jazz Blues vocalist
and pianist Charles Brown is
best known for his 1945
self-penned staple "Drifting
Blues."
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Vinson always played a hot
jazz sax but it was his
haunting blues falsetto that
put him over the top.
Jimmy Witherspoon
A legendary blues and jazz
singer, Jimmy Witherspoon
performed on stage and on
wax for nearly 50 years.
Percy Mayfield
Recording for Specialty
Records in the early '50s,
Percy Mayfield went on to
be a hit songwriter for Ray
Charles.
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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