Sunday, April 1, 2018

Jazz Musician Of The Day: Duke Jordan

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All About Jazz is celebrating Duke Jordan's birthday today!
Duke Jordan was a pianist whose work with the saxophonist Charlie Parker endures in the jazz pantheon. Jordan was regarded as one of the great early bebop pianists, the sound that he helped to create in the postwar era was something new, and it remains a cornerstone of jazz. Irving Sydney Jordan was born in New York in 1922, and began his formal piano studies at the age of eight.Hecontinued to study piano until he was 16... Read more.
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