Let the Good Times Roll
Louis Jordan and His Tymphany Band
July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975
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Louis Jordan was one of the leading practitioners of jump blues, a swinging, up-tempo, dance-oriented hybrid of jazz, blues and boogie-woogie.
After time as a journeyman, he got the nod to join Chick Webb’s orchestra at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem where he became the band’s master of ceremonies thus launching his own influential career.
Good times, let ’em roll!
– Scott Yanow
Ella Fitzgerald