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
Jordan in New York City, 1946
Louis Jordan's Tympany Five (c. 1946–1948)
Jordan in New York, July 1946, shortly after getting second billing to Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra at the Paramount.
Ray Charles
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Ray Charles Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Ge
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…Jordan record "sounds eerily like the vocal tone Little Richard would adopt", in addition to the "Jordan-style pencil-thin moustache". James Brown and Ray Charles also said that Jordan's style had an influence on their work. B.B. King cites Jordan as an influence and recorded an album of his tunes called Let the…
Charles in 1969
Charles's childhood home in Greenville, Florida
Charles in 1968
Charles in 1971