• One important stylistic prototype in the development of R&B was jump blues, pioneered by Louis Jordan, with his group Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five.
  • Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American musician, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.
  • Louis Jordan was born on July 8, 1908 in Brinkley, Arkansas, and passed away on February 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California.
  • Louis Thomas Jordan[1] (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975)[2] was a pioneering American musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity...
  • Louis Jordan was a pioneering musician whose contributions to jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues helped shape the sound of popular music in the 20th century.
  • Because of his father’s musical background, little Louis Jordan learned how to play the clarinet, the piano, and the saxophone when he was still a small boy.
  • Chuck Berry’s opening riff of “Johnny B Goode” is even a direct rip from Louis Jordan’s “Ain’t That Just Like a Woman (They’ll Do It Every Time)”.
  • Louis Jordan, 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...
  • The supreme ruler of Forties R&B. Louis Jordan topped the R&B charts for a total of one hundred thirteen weeks, an unheard of accomplishment.