Best of Louis Jordan
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With 20 originals from Louis Jordan's '40s and early '50s heyday at Decca Records, Best Of is the definitive collection of the blues-jazz bandleader-singer's work. Most of the cuts are up-tempo jumpers with lyrics that tell sly tales of the black experience in midcentury: the house-partiers in "Saturday Night Fish Fry" end up in the slam, while the institution of marriage occasions a warning in "Beware." Jordan also dabbled in Latin and Brazilian rhythms on "Run Joe" and "Early in the Morning," and even added a major ballad, "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'," to th
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Manufacturer: MCA
Release date: 26 July 1989
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0076732407929 UPC: 076732407929
Release date: 26 July 1989
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0076732407929 UPC: 076732407929
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