THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION gathers 17 tracks by jazzman Louis Jordan.
Though many music fans don't realize it, alto saxophonist/singer Louis Jordan was one of the founding fathers of both rhythm & blues and subsequently rock & roll. Jordan was a renegade from the Swing era, who left the popular Chick Webb Orchestra (featuring singer Ella Fitzgerald) to start his own band. His "formula" was for his band to swing fast and hard while increasing and emphasizing the blues content. Jordan, meanwhile, always the irreverent hipster, sang audacious but good-natured songs of romance and alcohol-assisted partying. ESSENTIAL COLLECTION contains many of his biggest hits in this style from the 1940s and early '50s.
Professional Reviews
Q (9/01, p.133) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Even those with only a passing interest in R&B can't fail to be impressed by Jordan's unique way with a jive vocal, his forceful, booting sax-attacks and the tight surround sound afforded by his Tympany Five..."
Format:
Compact Disc
Country:
USA
UPC:
0731454432825
Studio/Live:
Studio
Release Date:
9 July, 2001
Tracks
1. Choo Choo Ch Boogie
2. Five Guys Named Mo
3. Saturday Night Fish Fry
4. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
5. Blue Light Boogie
6. Beware Brother Beware
7. Never Trust A Woman
8. Let The Good Times Roll
9. Open The Door Richard
10. Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door
11. Fat Sam From Birmingham
12. I Want You To Be My Baby
13. Buxx Me
14. Three Handed Woman
15. Come And Get It
16. Caldonia
17. Reet Pelite And Gone
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