Duke Basketball Report · May 28, 2022
YouTube Gold: The Very Definition Of Musical Longevity
Posed studio portrait of Louis JordanThe 20th century was full of insanely good American musicians. Where do you even start? Louis Armstrong? Ella Fitzgerald? Miles Davis? Big Bill Broonzy? Irving Berlin? Cole Porter? Professor Longhair? Chuck Berry?
It’s really incredible. You could make a list of literally hundreds of supremely talented musicians, get to the end, and say...wait! We forgot Rosanne Cash! Or Wynonie Harris!
Or, maybe, Louis Jordan.
Jordan was born in 1908 and the best years of his career were between the late ‘30s and the early ‘50s when rock and roll blew everything else out of the water.
Jordan just kept going. He played smaller venues, went overseas, but he always kept going.