NOUN
- a combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll
How To Use rhythm and blues In A Sentence
- The band has a wide appeal, playing everything from small band swing to Dixieland jazz and 50s influenced rhythm and blues.
- They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region.
- Songs were picked from pop, rock, rap and rhythm and blues. The Sun
- They were not merely brilliant musicians fusing avant-garde influences with rhythm and blues music. Times, Sunday Times
- Each of these rhythm and blues legends had the hall rocking to the sounds of the Sixties.
- From the States came rhythm and blues, hot on the heels of swing and jazz which had arrived some years earlier.
- Rhythm and blues mutated into rock and roll.
- I'm from a cynical generation raised on electronic dance music, but felt I finally understood what the fuss with rhythm and blues was all about.
- The band is obsessed by the music of Rhythm and Blues, with its contagious grooves, boogie piano, sax riffs and overdriven guitar solos.
- There is music for everyone in this city - traditional jazz, honky-tonk piano, Cajun, zydeco, rhythm and blues, gospel, rock, and country.
