But Taylor credits African-American blues and jazz as his musical inspiration.
Sales of "Wang Dang Doodle" would reach a million, and Taylor hit the road to blues and jazz festivals around the country and abroad.
Lord was influenced by classical, blues and jazz but played his Hammond organ with a rock attitude and helped Deep Purple become pioneers of progressive and heavy rock.
On a recent visit to the House of Blues and Jazz, the tall, blond hostess was dressed in a floor-length evening gown, with a bright red hat angled down the front of her face and an intriguing Russian accent.
The migrants brought the blues and gave birth to jazz, rock, rhythm and blues and hip-hop.
We salute his unparalleled contribution to Blues, Jazz and Rock culture in Europe, and will miss him greatly.
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Growing up in Atlanta I heard much more blues and bluegrass than jazz music, though I was most excited to learn to play jazz when I was growing up.
Back in the 1950s, Allison created a style all his own by coupling his talents as a pianist and lyricist and applying them to the elements of jazz and blues.
The 40 or so clubs and bars there echo with blues, jazz, punk, country and techno.
And after hearing about Katrina, she decided to have a Jazz and Blues Festival at her high school.
Even within the confines of musically narrow genres, Cooder allows himself room to stretch, manipulating the song structures of 1930s American music: minstrel folk, country ballads, blues and even the lounge jazz of Chet Baker.
But after Katrina, New Orleans jazz, blues and zydeco artists were scattered across the nation.
It's absolutely an all-star lineup of New Orleans jazz and blues performers.
The centenary of the birth of Muddy Waters is to be marked at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival with a concert by his eldest son Mud Morganfield.
Her style, which blends blues, soul, funk and jazz, has earned Copeland a Grammy nomination, while allowing her to open for the likes of The Rolling Stones, B.
He went through changes that ranged from imitating Nat Cole and Charles Brown to finding his own voice in jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, country, pop and soul.
In 1959, Mingus released the albums Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Dynasty and Blues and Roots, all of which are jazz classics.
Turkish-born Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, providing an early platform for jazz, soul and blues musicians, including John Coltrane, Leadbelly and Dizzy Gillespie.
The group is the combined result of an urban tradition in American music that stretches back to historical precedents in jazz, rhythm and blues, funk and popular music since the 1970s.
Always a musician's musician due to his aptitude for blending his sound a mixture of Tex Mex, blues, surf-rock, jazz and country Cooder appears comfortable in any project he attempts.
It sounds as if Ms. Krall and producer T-Bone Burnett journeyed back to the beginning of time and landed at that Big Bang moment when all the American idioms jazz, country, blues, Tin Pan Alley and Broadway were being invented simultaneously, and not completely independent of one another.
In the 1970s, musicians began mixing flamenco with jazz, rock, blues, rap and other genres.
They infuse an African-American sensibility into music that includes, not only opera, but jazz, gospel, soul and blues.
Dr. John's funky takes on jazz standards, his original blues, and his unstoppable stage persona (deer antlers and robes figure prominently) have made him a legend well beyond his hometown of New Orleans.
In the United States record collectors said that her songs, with their four-line stanzas, were like the blues, and she did indeed make some recordings with a jazz saxophonist, Don Byas.
Traces of blues and funk weave through echoes of Jamaican dub and flashes of jazz anarchy.
The emphasis on improvisation reminded him of jazz and the depth of feeling recalled older blues, but the overall effect was closer to blues arranged or a classical orchestra.
On one side was a blues and on the other a dance number two forms that jazz would rely on for decades to come.
After all, many of the key elements that fostered jazz in the beginning were vocal the blues, spirituals and work songs among them.
Ranging from 1919 to 1994, the set is divided into sections on the blues, church roots, party songs, standard tunes (slow and up-tempo), jazz originals, scat-singing and novelties, though the compiler acknowledges that many of his pieces overlap their pigeonholes.
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