Following "Blues With a Feeling" through cutting-edge changes

Update: 2013-11-22

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Here’s a perfect example of a song that changed with the times, and was at the cutting edge of those changes. Drummer and singer Rabon Tarrant recorded “Blues With a Feeling” in 1947, a time when big band swing music was in transition to rock and roll. This version straddles both genres with the beat of rock and roll, but the more jazzy instrumentation of piano, sax and trumpet.

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Following "Blues With a Feeling" through cutting-edge changes

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Following "Blues With a Feeling" through cutting-edge changes

John Kessler

Following "Blues With a Feeling" through cutting-edge changes