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56 relations: A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, Allen Toussaint, Alligator Records, Atlantic Records, Bell pattern, Big Chief, Blues Hall of Fame, Bogalusa, Louisiana, Boogie-woogie, Calypso music, Cell (music), Clave (rhythm), Contradanza, Crawfish Fiesta, Crossover music, Dr. John, Earl King, Fats Domino, Federal Records, Funk, Go to the Mardi Gras, Grammy Award, Guajeo, Harry Byrd, Henry Bird, Huey "Piano" Smith, Hugh Laurie, James Brown, Jelly Roll Morton, Let Them Talk (Hugh Laurie album), Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Louisiana blues, Mambo (music), Mercury Records, Montreux Jazz Festival, New Orleans, New Orleans blues, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans Piano, New Orleans rhythm and blues, Newport Jazz Festival, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney and Wings, Pérez Prado, PBS, Rhumba, Rhythm and blues, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Swing (jazz performance style), ..., The Meters, Tipitina, Tipitina's, Trad jazz, Tresillo (rhythm), Tuts Washington. Expand index (6 more) »
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
A Bit of Fry & Laurie is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on both BBC1 and BBC2 between 1989 and 1995.
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Alfred "Uganda" Roberts
Alfred "Uganda" Roberts (born April 8, 1943) is a conga/percussion player.
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Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint (January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, who was an influential figure in New Orleans R&B from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music’s great backroom figures."Richard Williams,, The Guardian, November 11, 2015.
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Alligator Records
Alligator Records is an American, Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971.
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Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.
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Bell pattern
A bell pattern is a rhythmic pattern of striking a hand-held bell or other instrument of the Idiophone family, to make it emit a sound at desired intervals.
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Big Chief
"Big Chief" is a song composed by Earl King in the early 1960s.
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Blues Hall of Fame
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum located in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Bogalusa, Louisiana
Bogalusa is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African-American communities in the 1870s.
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
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Cell (music)
The 1957 Encyclopédie Laroussequoted in Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990).
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Clave (rhythm)
The clave is a rhythmic pattern used as a tool for temporal organization in Afro-Cuban music.
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Contradanza
Contradanza (also called contradanza criolla, danza, danza criolla, or habanera) is the Spanish and Spanish-American version of the contradanse, which was an internationally popular style of music and dance in the 18th century, derived from the English country dance and adopted at the court of France.
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Crawfish Fiesta
Crawfish Fiesta is an album recorded in 1979 by Professor Longhair during his revival period only months before his death in January 1980 and released in 1980 by Alligator Records.
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Crossover music
Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audience, for example (especially in the United States) by appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical styles or genres.
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Dr. John
Malcolm John Rebennack (born November 21, 1940), better known by his stage name Dr.
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Earl King
Earl Silas Johnson IV (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003), known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music.
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Fats Domino
Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017) was an American pianist and singer-songwriter.
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Federal Records
Federal Records was an American record label founded in 1950 as a subsidiary of Syd Nathan's King Records and based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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Go to the Mardi Gras
"Go to the Mardi Gras" or "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" is a New Orleans Mardi Gras-themed R&B song that was performed by Professor Longhair (real name Henry Roland Byrd) and recorded several times since 1949.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Guajeo
A guajeo (Anglicized pronunciation: wa-hey-yo) is a typical Cuban ostinato melody, most often consisting of arpeggiated chords in syncopated patterns.
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Harry Byrd
Harry Byrd or Bird may refer to.
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Henry Bird
Henry Bird may refer to.
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Huey "Piano" Smith
Huey Pierce Smith, known as Huey "Piano" Smith (born January 26, 1934, New Orleans, Louisiana), is an American rhythm-and-blues pianist whose sound was influential in the development of rock and roll.
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Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, musician, comedian, and author.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.
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Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Let Them Talk (Hugh Laurie album)
Let Them Talk is the debut studio album by English actor and musician Hugh Laurie.
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (New Orleans, May 8, 1829 – Rio de Janeiro, December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works.
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Louisiana blues
Louisiana blues is a genre of blues music that developed in the period after World War II in the state of Louisiana.
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Mambo (music)
Mambo is a musical genre and dance style that developed originally in Cuba.
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Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Montreux Jazz Festival
The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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New Orleans blues
New Orleans blues, is a subgenre of blues music and a variation of Louisiana blues that developed in the 1940s and 1950s in and around the city of New Orleans, rooted by the rich blues roots of the city going back generations earlier.
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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, often known as Jazz Fest, is an annual celebration of the music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana.
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New Orleans Piano
New Orleans Piano is a 1972 album by Professor Longhair.
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New Orleans rhythm and blues
New Orleans Rhythm and Blues is a style of R&B that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana and was most popular between the years of 1948-1955, serving as a precursor to Rock & Roll and strongly influencing Ska.
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Newport Jazz Festival
The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.
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Paul McCartney and Wings
Paul McCartney and Wings, also known simply as Wings, were a rock band formed in 1971 by former Beatle Paul McCartney with his wife Linda on keyboards, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.
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Pérez Prado
Dámaso Pérez Prado (December 11, 1916 – September 14, 1989) was a Cuban bandleader, organist, pianist and composer, who also made brief appearances in films.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Rhumba
Rhumba, also known as ballroom rumba, is a genre of ballroom music and dance that appeared in the East Coast of the United States during the 1930s.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.
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Swing (jazz performance style)
In music, the term swing has two main uses.
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The Meters
The Meters are an American funk band formed in 1965 by Zigaboo Modeliste (drums), George Porter Jr. (bass), Leo Nocentelli (guitar), and Art Neville (keyboards) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Tipitina
"Tipitina" is a song written and made famous by Professor Longhair.
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Tipitina's
Tipitina's is a music venue located at the corner of Napoleon Avenue and Tchoupitoulas Street in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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Trad jazz
Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century, which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet and trombone in contrast to more modern styles which usually include saxophones, and the revival of these styles in mid 20th-century Britain before the emergence of beat music.
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Tresillo (rhythm)
Tresillo is a more basic form of the rhythmic figure known as the habanera.
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Tuts Washington
Isidore "Tuts" Washington (January 24, 1907 – August 5, 1984) was an American Louisiana blues pianist, who exemplified New Orleans rhythm and blues, a style also made famous by musicians such as Professor Longhair and Huey "Piano" Smith.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Longhair
