Louis Jordan
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American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908–1975)
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Louis Jordan appears in Vinony's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame collection — one of 410 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 710 inbound references to Louis Jordan, and connects out to jazz, blues and rock and roll.
It is catalogued under topics including 1908 births, 1975 deaths and 20th-century African-American male singers.
Vinony links it to 27 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
Known for
- The Harlem Renaissance — Self (archive footage)2004
- Swing Era - Louis Jordan2003
- It's Black Entertainment — Self (archive footage)2002
- Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five — Himself2000
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)1999
- Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music — Self1993
- The Judy Garland Show — Self1963
- Startime — Self1959
- What's My Line? — Self - Mystery Guest1950
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self1948
via TMDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Family name
- Jordan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brinkley
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- bandleader
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- popular music
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Record label
- Aladdin
- Official website
- www.rockhall.com/inductees/louis-jordan
- Image
- Louis Jordan, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946 (William P. Gottlieb 04721).jpg
Show 9 more facts
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1908-07-08
- date of death
- 1975-02-04
- Commons category
- Louis Jordan
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Louis Jordan
- start of work period
- 1932-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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Categories
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