Editing New Orleans rhythm and blues (section)

== Characteristics ==
New Orleans rhythm and blues can be characterized by predominant piano, "singing" horns, and call-and-response elements.<ref name=":2">Jason Berry, Jonathon Foose, and Tad Jones, ''Up From the Cradle of Jazz'' (Athens: [[University of Georgia Press]], 1986), p. 5, {{ISBN|9780820308548}}</ref> Clear influences of Kansas City Swing bands can be heard through the extensive use of trumpet and saxophone solos.<ref name=":0">Gérard Herzhaft, ''Encyclopedia of the Blues,'' trans. Brigette Debord (Fayetville: [[University of Arkansas Press]], 1997), p. 154, {{ISBN|978-1-55728-452-5}}</ref> A "double" bass line, when the guitar and bass play in unison, was combined with a strong backbeat to make the music easy to dance to.<ref name=":2" /> It is also common to hear the influence of Caribbean rhythms such as the [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[rhumba]], and the [[Calypso music|calypso]].<ref>Berry, Foose, and Jones, ''Up From the Cradle of Jazz,'' p. 20</ref>

In addition, the usage of [[blue note]]s is characteristic. Like most blues, New Orleans R&B typically follows a standard three-stanza form that contains tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords. Within these chords, the three "blue notes", also known as flatted notes, are the third, fifth, and seventh scale degrees. In New Orleans R&B, the flatted third is particularly notable.<ref>Berry, Foose, and Jones, ''Up From the Cradle of Jazz,'' p. 70</ref>