Louis Jordan
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The Pointer Sisters, Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five: Roseland Ballroom, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 20 September 1973
THE FALL is upon us at last, and the theme for the season, the dreary, greasy '50s having run their course, is the revival of ...
The Pointers: Sign of a Wasted Rock Culture
Profile by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973
ANYTIME THE American media welcomes a new act with such an overt display of scraping and bowing for superlatives, it's time to be suspicious. ...
Louis Jordan: "Still Feeling Good"
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Lydon, Ramparts, January 1974
"DRINK SOME beer and be of good cheer!" Louis Jordan stood on the dimly lit stage of Ruthie's Inn. Before him was a crowded floor ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 1975
"DRINK SOME BEER and be of good cheer!" ...
Louis Jordan: A First Class Original
Obituary by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 February 1975
MAX JONES pays tribute to a fine blues singer/alto player ...
Louis Jordan: The Best Of Louis Jordan/Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 1 May 1976
SUFFERING FROM HEAVY metal fatigue? Bunions on your disco feet? Are you too pooped to pop, too puked with punk rock, rasta'd rigid by reggae ...
Louis Jordan: Hep And The Art Of Alto-Sax Repair
Retrospective by Nick Tosches, Creem, October 1979
IN THE 1940's, there were two black singers who crossed over from Race Records (as Billboard called its bluegum charts until 1949, when the phrase Rhythm & ...
Retrospective by Cliff White, The History of Rock, 1982
The king of jive who made the good times roll. ...
Louis Jordan: Going For The Long Jump!
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 6 August 1983
The last of the swingers, the first of the rockers, altoist Louis Jordan's influence stretches through BB King and David Bowie to the '80s jive ...
Louis Jordan, Forefather of Rock 'N' Roll
Retrospective by Nick Tosches, The Village Voice, 18 August 1992
He made some of the greatest music that has ever been made; if any one man is to be given credit for siring rock 'n' ...
Sleeve notes by Pete Grendysa, Bear Family, 1993
FOR TEN of the most crucial years in the history of American black music, Louis Jordan was the main man, the solid sender, the hep-est ...
John Chilton: Let The Good Times Roll – The Story Of Louis Jordan And His Music (Quartet Books)
Book Review by Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm, February 1993
YOU'VE HEARD the records, maybe even bought the recent Bear Family nine-CD box set (The Complete Decca Recordings) – now read the biography. ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 8 July 1908, Brinkley, Arkansas, USA, d. 4 February 1975, Los Angeles, California ...
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