New Orleans had piano-based music that would propel the career of Fats Domino, who broke into mainstream pop music charts. By the mid-50s, clear regional differences began to emerge - Chicago with its harmonica-driven small combo sound, LA and Kansas City with leaning toward honking saxophones. The late 1940s and early 50s saw releases such as Jackie Brenston’s Rocket 88, which would pave the way for the mature form of the mid-50s, while Professor Longhair worked away in New Orleans on R&B piano riffs that had a rolling Latin tinge. Over the years, I’ve written a fair amount about the development of R&B - how it came out of the post-World War II boom and migrated from the Deep South to Northern cities such as Chicago how earlier styles like small combo blues (such as Charles Brown), jump jive (Louis Jordan) and piano boogie woogie (Professor Longhair) created the platform for the progenitor of rock ‘n’ roll. Without it - the songs of Willie Dixon, for instance, or the small band format of electrified Chicago R&B outfits led by legends such as Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters - there would have been no rock ‘n’ roll, no British beat band boom of the 60s. It was the golden era of R&B, and the music created during this era has had a lasting influence on the development of popular music.
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