Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five
Think five discs and 131 songs is too much Louis Jordan? Not a chance. Not for a man who so consistently and so definitively achieved the elusive and delicate combination of musicianship and accessibility. Not for a man who paved new and vital musical roads without ever losing his sense of style or his appetite for fun. Covering Jordan's historic (not to mention commercially successful) Decca tenure (1938 to 1950), this amazing collection finds the alto sax player, songwriter, and singer building blues and swing into a hot mix that came to be known as R&B, producing hit after hit with topnotch bands behind him, streamlining the big-band concept without diminishing the music's force. Much has been made of his role in the development of R&B--and as a result, rock & roll--and his importance as a musical pioneer can't be underestimated. But all ideas about "historical importance" fade away as these vibrant, insistent, irresistible tracks roll by. --Marc Greilsamer more
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Track Listing: 1. Friendship, 1. Honey in the Bee Ball, 1. My Baby Said Yes (Yip, Yip de Hootie), 1. Onion, 1.... |
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-10-2007
- The foundation set of R&B
Simply put, for its value this is one of the greatest collections of CD's of utter joy and happiness around.This multivolume set covers the early music and musical peak of the musical and comical link between Bert Williams and Louis...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-14-2006
- Great Listening
I wandered into this CD while checking out the many great boxed sets that JSP Records has to offer. I knew very little about Louis Jordan before hearing this, and now I'm hooked! For anybody whole loves to hear the building blocks of...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-17-2006
- Lloyd Brown St Louis, MO
Wolf Shadow, great review. Louis Jordan was my uncle and I have almost all of these great cuts on original 33 1/3s and even 45s and 78s. I will buy this CD to preserve my Louis collection which I hardly ever played in the past 40 years.I...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-07-2006
- A Whole Lotta Music For Not Much Dough
Don't think twice-- buy it! Great collection goes on and on, and never runs out of steam. Louis Jordan was at his peak when these were recorded. I repeat: buy!
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-10-2007
- The foundation set of R&B
Simply put, for its value this is one of the greatest collections of CD's of utter joy and happiness around.This multivolume set covers the early music and musical peak of the musical and comical link between Bert Williams and Louis...
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