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Name: Louis Jordan
Birth Date: July 8, 1908
Death Date: February 4, 1975
Place of Birth: Brinkley, Arkansas, United States
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: musician, bandleader, singer, instrumentalist

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Louis Jordan's (1908-1975) jazz-based boogie shuffle rhythms laid the foundation for rhythm and blues, modern electric blues, and rockabilly music. At the height of his career, in the 1940s, bandleader and alto saxophonist Louis Jordan scored 18 Number...


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One of America's most prominent musicians of the 1940s, Louis Jordan was a singer, a baritone and alto sax player, a clarinetist, and a bandleader. From 1942 to 1951, he had 18 number one hits on the R&B chart and was one of the biggest...
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Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as The King of the Jukebox, Jordan...


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