Johnny Mercer practically grew up with the sound of jazz and the blues in his ears.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

He skips around from jazz, to blues to boogie -- accompanying himself on piano and frequently pulling the customers in on the act.

The Jazz Three displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns & Leon James, the superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution of the blues to a spot on the evening program.

Tracing the blues from its African roots among the slaves who were brought to this country and the West Indies, he stressed the close relationship between the early jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches.

It was included from 1926 to 1930 in Okeh Records ' catalog, which typically concentrated strongly on blues and jazz.

It was from these roots, of spiritual songs, work songs and field hollers, that blues, jazz and gospel developed.

The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, and jazz.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.

Other live-music genre which are part of the city's cultural heritage include Chicago blues, Chicago soul, jazz, and gospel.

One example is Band-in-a-Box, which is capable of creating jazz, blues and rock instrumental solos with almost no user interaction.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

Performed by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts, a band Kanno assembled to perform music for the series, the jazz and blues themed soundtrack helps to define the show as much as the characters, writing, and animation.

* Cadence Magazine, a monthly review of jazz, blues and improvised music

In addition, it is used in other genres such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly / psychobilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many types of folk music.

In many non-orchestral settings, such as jazz and blues, amplification via a specialized amplifier and loudspeakers is employed.

Bluegrass and jazz players typically use less amplification than blues, psychobilly, or jam band players.

The upright bass remained an integral part of pop lineups throughout the 1950s, as the new genre of rock and roll was built largely upon the model of rhythm and blues, with strong elements also derived from jazz, country, and bluegrass.

In contrast, in genres that mainly or exclusively use pizzicato ( plucking ), such as jazz and blues, a great deal of time and effort is focused on learning the varieties of different pizzicato styles used for music of different styles of tempi.

In some cases, blues or rockabilly bassists may have obtained some initial training through the classical or jazz pedagogy systems ( e. g., youth orchestra or high school big band ).

Such kits are particularly favoured in musical genres such as trad jazz, rockabilly and swing blues.

The city hosts the annual Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, attracting regional and international jazz, blues, rock, and world artists.

* 1916 – Bill Doggett, American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist ( d. 1996 )

In traditional jazz, swing, polka, rockabilly, and psychobilly music, it is sometimes played in the slap style.

Some bassists increase their employ-ability by learning several different styles, such as classical and jazz or rockabilly and bluegrass.

The double bass is the standard bass instrument for classical music, bluegrass, rockabilly, and most genres of jazz.

Unlike the musicians in bands such as The Comets, or Elvis Presley's backing band, who had rockabilly or country music backgrounds, many musicians in Australian rock ' n ' roll bands – such as Johnny O ' Keefe's famous backing group The Dee Jays – had a solid background in jazz.

Recordings of Wills's from the mid 40s to the early 50s include " two beat jazz " rhythms, " jazz choruses ", and guitar work that preceded early rockabilly recordings.

The addition of Howard's guitar was certainly a catalyst ( his later use of audio feedback being a hallmark of the group ) but there were other changes, as well: their sound drew upon punk, rockabilly, free jazz and the rawest blues, but defied concise categorisation.

His guitar work was heavily influenced by surf music, jazz and rockabilly, and, alongside Jello Biafra's astute lyrics and unique vibrato-based vocal style, East Bay Ray's playing was one of the defining factors of the music of the Dead Kennedys, and by extension, of the " second wave " of American punk.

Punk rock band NOFX also covered " Last Caress " on the Misfits tribute, " Violent World " Others who have covered this song include AFI on Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, Batman, Eye Q, a rockabilly version by the Bricats on Swing-A-Billy Chartbusters, acoustic versions by Local H and Papa M, and a jazz / lounge version by Daniel Jordan.

The double bass was still used in some types of popular music that recreated styles from the 1940s and 1950s such as jazz ( especially swing and bebop ), traditional 1950s blues, jump blues, country, and rockabilly.

: Not many people know it, but Buffalo was like a mini Chicago back then, with a smoking blues, soul, jazz, even rockabilly scene, of all things.

") and parodic, and just as often laced with a profoundly questioning spirituality ; their music blended elements of polka, country, cocktail jazz, blues, rockabilly, Tex-Mex, rock & roll and other genres.

A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres.

Hasil Adkins ( pronounced " Hassle ," not " Haysil ") ( April 29, 1937 – April 25, 2005 ) was an Appalachian country, rock and roll, and blues musician, though he was frequently considered rockabilly and sometimes primitive jazz.

Among the specialty shows at WRAS are: Nippon Music Champ ( one of the few Japanese music shows in the southeast ), The Georgia Music Show ( dedicated exclusively to artists from Georgia ), I Don't Care ( punk ), Soul Kitchen ( funk, soul, disco and related ), Crossroads ( blues ), Psychobilly Freakout ( rockabilly and psychobilly ), Beatscape Lounge ( ambient, electronica and nu jazz ), Subterranean ( drum and bass ), Cowtipper's Delight ( classic country and alternative country ), Dot Dash ( post-punk ), Hotel Parallel ( drone music and space rock ), Mighty Aphrodite ( female vocalists ), We're Not Gonna Take It ( heavy-metal music ), Tower of Song ( psyche, prog, freakbeat ), a large variety of hip hop including the long-running shows Tha Bomb, Rhythm and Vibes ( Atlanta's longest-running hip hop show ) and Hush Hush ( instrumental hip hop ), Martinis Con Queso ( lounge ) and many more.

Before the breakup of the band Koda purchased a multi-track recorder and started producing one-man band tapes of rockabilly, blues, R & B, country, early rock and roll, and jazz music, which he released as the album That's What I Like About The South.

* The Club King, a semi-hollow guitar prized particularly for rockabilly and jazz, is available in an RT model with two Reverend " Revtron " mini-humbucker pickups, a 290 model with two Reverend P90s, and an HB model with two Reverend humbuckers.

In San Francisco he has worked with Brew Moore, Charlie Mingus, and other `` swinging '' musicians of secure reputation, thus placing himself within established jazz traditions, in addition to being a part of the San Francisco `` School ''.

The mushrooming of FM outlets, offering concerts ( both jazz and classical ), lectures, and other special events, is a phenomenon which has had a fair amount of publicity.

Most pop standard and jazz ballads are built from a single, introductory verse ; usually around 16 bars in length, and ending on the dominant ; the chorus or refrain, usually it is 16 or 32 bars long, and in AABA form ( though other forms such as ABAC are not uncommon ).

Its signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.

Chicago is home to several other modern and jazz dance troupes, such as the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

When Brubeck signed with Fantasy Records, he thought he had a half interest in the company and he worked as a sort of A & R man for it, encouraging the Weiss brothers to sign other contemporary jazz performers, including Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Red Norvo.

In jazz and other genres outside of classical music, this instrument is commonly called the upright bass or acoustic bass to distinguish it from the electric bass guitar.

A number of other bassists, such as Ray Brown, Slam Stewart and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, were central to the history of jazz.

The classical bassist Edgar Meyer has frequently branched out into newgrass, old-time, jazz, and other genres.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

It is most often a heavy, standard cymbal, but some drummers use a swish cymbal, sizzle cymbal or other exotic as the main or only ride, particularly for jazz.

* Jazz fusion, music combining jazz with other genres

He has seven top-20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in the US jazz chart history.

Dorothy Ashby ( sampled by hip-hop artists ) and Alice Coltrane are other jazz harpists. Harpist performing

A hi-hat, or hihat, is a type of cymbal and stand used as a typical part of a drum kit by percussionists in R & B, hip-hop, disco, jazz, rock and roll, house, reggae and other forms of contemporary popular music.

On the other hand, the same lists can be used by the puzzle setter to stump their opponent by choosing a word which deliberately avoids common letters ( e. g. rhythm or zephyr ) or one that contains rare letters ( e. g. jazz ).

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.