Jump blues, R&B

Blues family · late 1930s → · United States · Roots and blues

Danceable small groups issuing from swing, boogie and the Kansas City riff style. Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five (Caldonia, recorded January 19, 1945, Decca). Toward rock and roll.

What is still debated

The explicit Louis Jordan → bebop link is unsourced.

Where it comes from

• Blues, spirituals, work songs
• Boogie-woogie
• Swing, big bands
• Kansas City
• Gospel

What it gave rise to or influenced

• Soul jazz, boogaloo

Artists

• Dinah Washington (1924–1963, vocals)
• Jimmy Forrest (1920–1980, tenor saxophone)
• Huey "Piano" Smith (1934–2023, piano)
• Lionel Hampton (1908–2002, vibraphone, drums)
• Big Joe Turner (1911–1985, vocals)
• Esther Phillips (1935–1984, vocals)
• Hot Lips Page (1908–1954, trumpet, vocals)

Tracks to start with

• Caldonia — Louis Jordan (1945)
• Choo Choo Ch'Boogie — Louis Jordan (1946)
• Strange Things Happening Every Day — Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1944)
• Everybody's Somebody's Fool — Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra (chant : Little Jimmy Scott) (1949)
• Night Train — Jimmy Forrest (1951)
• Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu — Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns (1957)
• I Can't Stop Loving You — Ray Charles (1962)
• What'd I Say — Ray Charles (1959)
• Baby, It's Cold Outside (Hot Lips Page & Pearl Bailey) — Hot Lips Page & Pearl Bailey (1949)

Sources

• EN : Jump blues

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