In the course of the forties no fewer than eighteen titles by Louis Jordan climbed to the top of Billboard's rhythm & blues charts. The singer-saxophonist had become the number 1 Atro-American star, way ahead of Nat King Cole or Ella Fitzgerald, and he'd been nicknamed the ''king of the juke boxes''. What was his recipe? The man himself put it this way, somewhat mischievously: ''Say a few magic works like abracadabra, mumbo-jumbo, si-boum-ba, etc...mix it up...shake it real strong...say a little prayer...record your song and listen; what you get is a hit like Choo-Choo-Ch'Boogie''. Quite forgotten today, Louis Jordan was in fact the biological father of rhythm'n'blues; probably he even fathered a kind of rock'n'roll, although he never recognized the latter...40 total tracks. Nocturne. 2005.
Louis Jordan/Predo Zamith,Louis/Predo Zamith Jordan,Jazz
Jazz Music:
- Mastercuts Presents: Roy Ayers
- Milt Jackson and Strings
- Moonlight Serenade
- My Spanish Heart [Import]
- Obliqsound Selection, Vol. 2
- Ornithology
- Os Catedraticos 73 [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- Paint the World [Import]
- Peckin' Time [Import]
- Perfect Machine
Jazz Music
Blues Helping [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Music: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Oratorio Elijah
Iliad of a Wolverhampton [Import]
Inno a Maria Vergine / In Domum Domini Ibimus