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Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as " the King of the Jukebox ", he earned his highest profile towards the end of the swing era.
Louis Jordan war ein afroamerikanischer Jazz- und Rhythm-and-Blues-Musiker. Er wird auch der Vater des Rhythm and Blues und Großvater des Rock and Roll genannt. Von ihm kamen 54 Songs in die Rhythm and Blues Charts, ein Großteil von ihnen erreichte die Spitzenposition.
Louis Jordan (born July 8, 1908, Brinkley, Arkansas, U.S.—died February 4, 1975, Los Angeles, California) was an American saxophonist-singer prominent in the 1940s and ’50s who was a seminal figure in the development of both rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Born in Brinkley, Arkansas, on 8 July 1908, Louis Thomas Jordan was the son of an itinerant musician who encouraged his boy’s interest in music by coaching him on clarinet and saxophone and introducing him to the world of the then-popular traveling minstrel shows.
4. März 2008 · One of the most popular and successful bandleaders of his day, saxophonist and singer Louis Jordan broke from the jazz mainstream to become a founding father of rhythm & blues.
Louis Jordan was born on July 8, 1908 in Brinkley, Arkansas, and passed away on February 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California. He was an American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues.
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