Personnel includes: Louis Jordan (vocals, alto saxophone); Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Bill Doggett, Wild Bill Davis (piano).
The young art forms of film and jazz became almost inextricably entwined as soon as sound pictures came on the scene in the late '20s. Need one be reminded that the first talking picture was Al Jolson's THE JAZZ SINGER? Jazz musicians were ...
Personnel: Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five; The Calypso Boys.Recorded between 1941 & 1954. Includes liner notes by Dave Dexter, Jr.Personnel: Louis Jordan (vocals, alto saxophone).Liner Note Author: Dave Dexter, Jr.This is a bes...
Personnel: B.B. King (vocals, guitar); Dr. John (vocals, piano); Russell Malone (guitar); Hank Crawford (alto saxophone); David "Fathead" Newman (tenor saxophone); Marcus Belgrave (trumpet); Neil Larsen (piano, Hammond organ); John Heard (b...
Over two hours of skin bashing, bass pedal stomping, and unrivaled stick-twirling energy is captured here. From Gene Krupa to Keith Moon, this is an all-star compilation of the most incredible drum solos in music history. CLASSIC ROCK DRUM ...
JIVIN' IN BE BOP: A collection of hit singing and dancing numbers from the Jive era of the 1940's.BEWARE:When Louis and his band find themselves stranded at a college, they discover a feud between the dean and a pretty gym teacher--...
Bebop, jump, and jive with this all-star cast of jazz greats. Produced in the 1940s and 50s, this collection of musical short films includes appearances by Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, and many more...
Louis Jordan was born in 1908 in the strictly segregated town of Brinkley, Arkansas. In LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, British musician and writer John Chilton describes Jordan's professional start performing on the "chitlin' circuit," backing bl...