Louis Jordan - I Believe in Music

Artist:

Jordan, Louis

UPC:

730182600629

See Also:

Ellington, Duke Turner, Ike Waller, Fats

Description:

Personnel: Louis Jordan (vocals, alto saxophone); Louis Myers (guitar); Irv Cox (tenor saxophone); Duke Burrell (piano); Dave Meyers, John Duke (bass); Archie Taylor, Fred Below (drums).
Reissue producer: Jerry Gordon.
Recorded at Barclay Studio, Paris, France on November 6, 1973. Includes liner notes by Fred Bouchard.
Personnel: Louis Jordan (vocals, saxophone, alto saxophone); Louis Myers (guitar); Irv Cox (tenor saxophone); Duke Burrell (piano); Fred Below, Archie Taylor (drums).
Liner Note Author: Fred Bouchard.
Recording information: Barclay Studio (11/06/1973).
Photographer: Jean-Pierre Tahmazian.
Recorded in a single Paris session on November 6, 1973, for the French label Barclay Disques, I BELIEVE IN MUSIC finds jazz vocalist Louis Jordan just barely a year prior to his death at the age of 67. In poor but not frail health, Jordan sounds somewhat subdued but hardly sickly. What`s interesting about this date is that Jordan sings comparatively little, preferring to focus his energy on his under-appreciated alto saxophone skills. A blues honker in the Jimmy Forrest/King Curtis tradition, Jordan blows the hell out of his axe, trading lines with tenor Irv Cox while a hot piano-guitar-bass-drums rhythm section pounds behind them. Jordan revisits a few of his own classics, like "Saturday Night Fish Fry" and "Is You Is Or Is You Ain`t My Baby," but mostly he prefers to explore other standards like Duke Ellington`s "Take the A Train." The closing "Something For Louis" is a tender farewell to the recently deceased Mr. Armstrong, an old friend and cohort of Jordan`s.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. It`s a Low Down Dirty Shame
2. Three Handed Woman
3. Hard Head
4. I Believe in Music
5. Every Knock Is a Boost
6. Caldonia
7. Is You Is or Is You Ain`t My Baby?
8. Saturday Night Fish Fry
9. I`m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
10. Red Top - (previously unreleased)
11. Take the `A` Train - (previously unreleased)
12. Groovin` in Paris - (previously unreleased, part 1)
13. Groovin` in Paris - (previously unreleased, part 2)
14. Something for Fred - (previously unreleased)
15. Something for Louis - (previously unreleased)

Album Information

Release Date:

06/05/1992

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Jump Blues

Label:

Evidence

Catalog Number:

ECD-26006

Original Release Year:

1973

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

AAD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

62 : 22

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