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(2004/MAGIC) 24 tracks 1943-53 (24-bit remastered) Digipack Rock 'N' Roll Jubilee by Jacques... more

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Louis Jordan: The Man Who Invented Rock

(2004/MAGIC) 24 tracks 1943-53 (24-bit remastered) Digipack Rock 'N' Roll Jubilee by Jacques Barsamian & Martial Matinay; 50 Anniversary Original versions restored & remastered include booklet with french & english sleeves notes.

Article properties: Louis Jordan: The Man Who Invented Rock

Interpret: Louis Jordan
Album titlle: The Man Who Invented Rock
Genre R&B, Soul
Label MAGIC
Artikelart CD
EAN: 3700139304051
weight in Kg 0.1

Jordan, Louis - The Man Who Invented Rock CD 1
01	Five Guys Named Moe	Louis Jordan
02	Is You Is Or You Ain't My Baby	Louis Jordan
03	Caldonia	Louis Jordan
04	Salt Pork, West Virginia	Louis Jordan
05	Choo Choo Ch'Boogie	Louis Jordan
06	Ain't That Just Like A Woman	Louis Jordan
07	Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens	Louis Jordan
08	Let The Good Times Roll	Louis Jordan
09	Texas And Pacific	Louis Jordan
10	Open The Door Richard	Louis Jordan
11	Jack, You're Dead	Louis Jordan
12	Beware	Louis Jordan
13	Boogie Woogie Blue Plate	Louis Jordan
14	Reet, Petite And Gone	Louis Jordan
15	All For The Love Of Lil	Louis Jordan
16	Saturday Night Fish Fry	Louis Jordan
17	Blue Light Boogie	Louis Jordan
18	You Rascal You	Louis Jordan
19	Chartreuse	Louis Jordan
20	If You So Smart, How Come You Ain't Rich?	Louis Jordan
21	Louisville Lodge Meeting	Louis Jordan
22	House Party	Louis Jordan
23	I Want You To Be My Baby	Louis Jordan
24	Fat Sam From Birmingham	Louis Jordan

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Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five

No artist was more seminal to the development of R&B and ultimately rock and roll than jumpin', jivin' alto saxist Louis Jordan and his relentlessly swinging Tympany Five. The most popular R&B act of their era with an unbroken string of hits for Decca spanning 1942-1951, Jordan and his compact crew managed to cross over to the pop hit parade in unprecedented fashion. A naturally gifted comic, he starred in several low budget musical films for black audiences and proved a major influence on Bill Haley & His Comets, who were produced by Jordan's former Decca A&R man, Milt Gabler.

Born in Brinkley, Arkansas, on July 8, 1908, Louis came by his musical talents naturally: his father was a bandleader. The younger Jordan was skilled enough on his horn to find work in New York during the early '30s, recording behind Louis Armstrong and Clarence Williams before joining drummer Chick Webb's orchestra in 1936 (he was showcased on Webb's Rusty Hinge). Louis left Chick's employ in 1938, ready to lead the first incarnation of his Tympany Five (he was playing clarinet as well as alto sax in those days).

The hits began to come in late '42 with I'm Gonna Leave You On The Outskirts Of Town and didn't let up for a full decade. Jordan rallied the troops with his Ration Blues and G.I. Jive and kept jitterbugs hopping back home with Caldonia and Choo Choo Ch'Boogie. Like nine of his Decca 78s before it, Ain't That Just Like A Woman paced the race music charts. Written by Claude De Metruis (alleged co-author Fleecie Moore was Jordan's wife; he'd soon divorce her after she attacked him with a knife, losing a lot of compositional royalties he'd assigned to her in the process) and cut January 23, 1946 in New York, the humorous romp saw Louis' band expand to six with the addition of guitarist Carl Hogan.

Pianist Wild Bill Davis keeps the track driving, but it's Hogan's fluid boogie underpinning that gets the witty number rocking. Chuck Berry has long cited Hogan as a main influence and cut his own version of the song nearly two decades later; Fats Domino and Lloyd Price made convincing renditions as well. Sadly, like many of his peers, Jordan got left behind during the rock and roll revolution he helped spark. He was still performing until shortly before his February 4, 1975 death.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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