Louis Jordan

Louis Jordan made jump blues witty, fast, danceable, and sharply professional. The saxophonist, singer, and bandleader from the USA brought small-band swing, comic timing, and blues phrasing into records that pointed toward rock and roll. Caldonia, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie, and Let the Good Times Roll place him between jazz, blues, and 1940s popular entertainment.

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  Caldonia: the song that spawned the term rock and roll

  Caldonia is a 1945 song released by Louis Jordan, an American songwriter and saxophonist whose popularity in the 1940s...