Jump blues
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Jump blues is an uptempo style of blues with jazz and boogie woogie influence, usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm
Alto saxophonist Louis Jordan in New York, July 1946
Jordan with his Tympany Five
Lionel Hampton
Louis Jordan
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Louis Thomas Jordan was an American jazz, blues and jump blues saxophonist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "the King of the Jukebo
Jump blues
…blues lineup consisted of between five and seven members, including sax, bass, drums and piano and/or guitar. The genre produced musicians including Louis Jordan, Earl Bostic, Arnett Cobb, Roy Brown, Amos Milburn, and Joe Liggins, as well as sax soloists Jack McVea, Big Jay McNeely, and Bull Moose Jackson. Jordan…
Jordan in New York City, 1946