Many of his records were produced by Milt Gabler, who went on to refine and develop the qualities of Jordan's recordings in his later production work with Bill Haley, including " Rock Around the Clock". These recordings presaged many of the styles of black popular music of the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and exerted a strong influence on many leading performers in these genres.
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With his dynamic Tympany Five bands, Jordan mapped out the main parameters of the classic R&B, urban blues and early rock-and-roll genres with a series of highly influential 78-rpm discs released by Decca Records. Jordan's band also pioneered the use of the electronic organ. It strongly emphasized the rhythm section of piano, bass and drums after the mid-1940s, this mix was often augmented by electric guitar. Typically performed by smaller bands consisting of five or six players, jump music featured shouted, highly syncopated vocals and earthy, comedic lyrics on contemporary urban themes. Jordan began his career in big-band swing jazz in the 1930s, but he became known as one of the leading practitioners, innovators and popularizers of jump blues, a swinging, up-tempo, dance-oriented hybrid of jazz, blues and boogie-woogie. He was an instrumentalist who played all forms of the saxophone but specialized in the alto. He also made numerous cameos in mainstream features and short films, and starred in two musical feature films made especially for him.
Jordan was also an actor and a film personality-he appeared in dozens of "soundies" (promotional film clips) the one for " Caldonia" is the most readily available for viewing on various websites.
He duetted with some of the biggest solo singing stars of his time, including Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Jordan was a talented singer with great comedic flair, and he fronted his own band for more than twenty years. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an "early influence" in 1987. Known as " The King of the Jukebox", he earned his highest profile towards the end of the swing era. Louis Thomas Jordan (J– February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.
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