As a fan of rock music, this man is one of my heroes. I have loved Louis Jordan since the first time I heard Cho Cho Cha Boogie. This man and many others like him (black people, blues and jazz focused, ignored, and ripped off) started it all baby, it was called "jump blues" back then, but we know what it became. Mr. Jordan is one of maybe 10 people I'd love to just go back in time, have a beer and shoot the shit with him. What an icon!!!! He had the chops, the energy, the songs, the swag and the showmanship to set the bar that few since have been able to get to.
Luis was the guy that's responsible for rock and roll. It wasn't the blues greats as we are told. They played a part in the influence of early rock artists. But the genesis came from this guy and to a lesser degree, this song.
I agree. Although guys like Robert Johnson had an influence on 60s rock musicians and later........those guys had nothing to do with influencing the BEAT of rock music, or the instrumentation. Or the good times vibe that Rock and Roll originally brought. There’s literally no single person who was more important in bridging that gap than Jordan. He is criminally underrated and less well known compared to others like Johnson, Ellington, Armstrong, King, etc. Which is strange considering his large commercial success.
It was Luis Jordan's music being described as rocking and rolling by a columnist I believe, as the first use of the words rock and roll. He is the (truth be known) father of rock and roll.
Rock N Roll was a White-washed rhythm and blues, which Louis Jordan greatly innovated in the 40's. I also don't mean to take anything away from the rock musicians that rose in the 50's.
He had a great rock-flavoured album in 1957 called _Somebody Up There Digs Me_ on Mercury Records, featuring artists like Mickey Baker and Sam "The Man" Taylor.
Damn right, it's music baby let it rip, Louis Jordan and is Tympany Five always kicked ass and took names. I'd kill to go back in time and hit a blues club with these guys performing back in the day. I bet it fucking rocked.
MR. LOUIS JORDAN IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ALTO SAX PLAYERS EVER HE IS TRULY UNDERRATED AS A PLAYER I WOULD PUT HIM UP THERE WITH MR.CHARLIE PARKER AND THE OTHER GREATS OF THAT ERA.🎼🎷🎼 THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION.
The first rock and roll record ever. Chuck Berry was once introduced as the man who0 invented rock n roll. but said Louis Jordan was playing this long befire him !
Not familiar with Bill Allen or this program "The Beat",but props for him programming Louis Jordan on his show.Live version of kickass proportions here!
From Wikipedia: "Caldonia" is a jump blues song, first recorded in 1945 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. A version by Erskine Hawkins, also in 1945, was described by Billboard magazine as "rock and roll", the first time that phrase was used in print to describe any style of music. So many artists played this song at later dates.
Jordan is described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "The Father of Rhythm & Blues" and "The Grandfather of Rock 'n' Roll".....He could play jazz too. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and more prominent artists and appeared in films. He dominated the 1940s top charts..In this period Jordan had eighteen number 1 singles and fifty-four in the Top Ten. BB King says ...I learned phrasing from him and Chuck Berry probably got something to go on for his lyrics, with comedy and such....so and so..
Also evidently not from Ed Sullivan! Indeed, this has gotta be 60s for sure, for that & other reasons: the age Louis J looks, the pop-art stage set, & the fact that all the other clips I've seen on YT from that amazing show are early/mid 60s...)
The Program is called "The!!! Beat". I looked it up, it ran in syndication for 26 episodes in 1966. The resolution is too low to make out if it's a spaghetti logo or a transition logo, but the headstock is small, so it's a 65 or earlier. But technically, The Jazzmaster came out in 58, with only a Rosewood fretboard. Most people forget that little fact. but yeah, the rest of the models switched to rosewood only in 59. BUT, if you special ordered a strat or tele directly from Fender in the early/mid 60's, you could get a maple cap fretboard. In the first half of 1967, Hendrix had a 65 Candy Apple Red strat with the transition logo and it had a maple fretboard.
Why is this SO much faster than the recording of the time. I wonder if it was a focus hocus pocus situation. Some one was like you get 2 miutes 40 seconds and not a single one more!
