Post by bluesron on Jul 2, 2006 18:26:55 GMT -5
The 10th annual Louis Jordan Tribute will take place at 7;30 pm, Thursday at the Cornerstone Pub, 314 Main Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Central Arkansas bands or musicians performing jordan's music will include The Honkies, Nasty Abbott, John Lefler & the Good Time Ramblers, members of the Bug Tussle Boys, The Munks, Little Rock lawyer/writer Bill Jones and Eugene Porter, who attended Arkansas Baptist College, as did Jordan.
Jordan, who died in 1975, is a member of the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in cleveland. He racked up more than 50 Top 10 hits during the 1940s, and later influenced B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and James Brown.
After learning to play saxophone during his Arkansas youth, Jordan moved to New York in the mid-1930s and played behind Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. He moved on to work in Louis Armstrong's band and by 1938 had his own ensemble, starting out as the Elk Rendez-Vous band and a year later changin its name to the Tympany Five.
Jordan's hits included "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town", "What's the Use in Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)," "Five Guys Named Moe," "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," "Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby," "Caldonia,"
"Choo Choo Cha Boogie." "Saturday Night Fish Fry." and "let the Good Times Roll."
His song "Five Guys Named Moe" became the title of a revue that ran in London and New York and at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre a decade ago.
Arkansas Band The Greasy Greens was performing Jordan songs in the mid-1970s and as part of its occasional reunion gigs.
The Jordan tributes were founded by Stephen Koch, an Arkansas writer and musician and host of Arkansongs, a syndicated radio series about Arkansas musicians on KUAR FM 89.1. The show airs Friday mornings and evenings.
Proceeds from the first nine Jordan tributes have made possible a bust of Jordan sculpted by John Deering of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, now on display in the Depot Museum in Brinkley (Arkansas).
The annual Jordan tribut event has been recognized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the U.S. Library of Congress "Living Legacies" program.
Admission to the tribute is a suggested $6 donation with all proceeds going toward a memorial to be placed in Brinkley, where he was born on July 8, 1908.
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to get an idea of one of the roots where Rock and Roll came from, find yourself a Louis Jordan compilation disc and sit back and learn. and Enjoy!
ron
Central Arkansas bands or musicians performing jordan's music will include The Honkies, Nasty Abbott, John Lefler & the Good Time Ramblers, members of the Bug Tussle Boys, The Munks, Little Rock lawyer/writer Bill Jones and Eugene Porter, who attended Arkansas Baptist College, as did Jordan.
Jordan, who died in 1975, is a member of the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in cleveland. He racked up more than 50 Top 10 hits during the 1940s, and later influenced B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and James Brown.
After learning to play saxophone during his Arkansas youth, Jordan moved to New York in the mid-1930s and played behind Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. He moved on to work in Louis Armstrong's band and by 1938 had his own ensemble, starting out as the Elk Rendez-Vous band and a year later changin its name to the Tympany Five.
Jordan's hits included "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town", "What's the Use in Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)," "Five Guys Named Moe," "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," "Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby," "Caldonia,"
"Choo Choo Cha Boogie." "Saturday Night Fish Fry." and "let the Good Times Roll."
His song "Five Guys Named Moe" became the title of a revue that ran in London and New York and at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre a decade ago.
Arkansas Band The Greasy Greens was performing Jordan songs in the mid-1970s and as part of its occasional reunion gigs.
The Jordan tributes were founded by Stephen Koch, an Arkansas writer and musician and host of Arkansongs, a syndicated radio series about Arkansas musicians on KUAR FM 89.1. The show airs Friday mornings and evenings.
Proceeds from the first nine Jordan tributes have made possible a bust of Jordan sculpted by John Deering of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, now on display in the Depot Museum in Brinkley (Arkansas).
The annual Jordan tribut event has been recognized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the U.S. Library of Congress "Living Legacies" program.
Admission to the tribute is a suggested $6 donation with all proceeds going toward a memorial to be placed in Brinkley, where he was born on July 8, 1908.
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to get an idea of one of the roots where Rock and Roll came from, find yourself a Louis Jordan compilation disc and sit back and learn. and Enjoy!
ron