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

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

Koch, Stephen

Paperback

Blues & SoulRegional: South

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1626194351
ISBN13: 9781626194359
Publisher: History Press (SC)
Published: Mar 18 2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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