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Louis Jordan: Son of Arkansas, Father of R&B

By Stephen Koch

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2014
ISBN
9781625849687, 9781626194359, 2014004793
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3138171 bytes)
Series
Music
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-02 17:08:57
HistoryMUS020000MusicNonfiction

Description

Though you may not know the man, you probably know his music. Arkansas-born Louis Jordan's songs like "Baby, It's Cold Outside," "Caldonia" and "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" can still be heard today, decades since Jordan ruled the charts. In his five-decade career, Jordan influenced American popular music, film and more and inspired the likes of James Brown, B.B. King, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. Known as the "King of the Jukeboxes," he and his combo played a hybrid of jazz, swing, blues and comedy music during the big band era that became the start of R&B. In a stunning narrative portrait of Louis Jordan, author Stephen Koch contextualizes the great, forgotten musician among his musical peers, those he influenced and the musical present.

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