{"title":"Duke Jordan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDuke Jordan took his nickname at fourteen from the musician he idolised most. As Irving Sidney Jordan, raised in Brooklyn and already obsessively collecting Duke Ellington records, he joined Coleman Hawkins at Kelly's Stable and spent a year with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans before Charlie Parker heard him playing with guitarist Teddy Walters and asked him to join his quintet. The 1947-48 Parker quintet, with Miles Davis on trumpet, Tommy Potter on bass and Max Roach on drums, produced some of the most collected bebop sessions on record: the Dial dates that yielded \"Dewey Square\", \"Bongo Bop\", \"Bird of Paradise\" and the famous eight-bar piano introduction Jordan played on \"Embraceable You\", an introduction Leonard Feather later described in liner notes as one of the great unheralded moments in bebop piano. Jordan wrote \"Jordu\" in 1953, and when Clifford Brown adopted it into his repertoire the following year it became a standard, turning up in the Brown-Roach Quintet recordings and remaining there ever since. What happened next is one of jazz's more unusual stories. Jordan spent time accompanying Sonny Stitt and Stan Getz, recorded his own sessions for Signal and Prestige, contributed to the soundtrack of Roger Vadim's 1959 French film \"Les Liaisons Dangereuses\", and then largely disappeared from recording for most of the 1960s, driving a taxi in New York. He reconnected with the recording world through SteepleChase in 1973, moved permanently to Copenhagen in 1978, and recorded prolifically in trio and quintet settings for the label until 1985. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"duke-jordan-trio-two-loves-1982-japanese-steeplechase-vinyl-lp","title":"Duke Jordan Trio - Two Loves (1982 Japanese SteepleChase Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eVG+\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSleeve:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eVG+\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObi:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur grading system explained \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDuke Jordan Trio - \u003cem\u003eTwo Loves\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1982 Japanese SteepleChase Reissue (UPS-2162-S, Teichiku Records)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJordan's story runs through the entire history of bebop. He was Charlie Parker's regular pianist in 1947 and 1948, playing on the Dial sessions that produced \"Bird of Paradise,\" \"Embraceable You\" and \"Dewey Square.\" He wrote the score for Roger Vadim's \u003cem\u003eLes Liaisons Dangereuses\u003c\/em\u003e (1959), performed by Art Blakey's group. His composition \"Jordu\" became a standard. Then, like so many American jazz musicians, he found the European scene more hospitable than the American one, and in the 1970s he began an extended relationship with Nils Winther's SteepleChase label in Copenhagen, eventually settling permanently in Denmark in 1978. \u003cem\u003eTwo Loves\u003c\/em\u003e comes from his first SteepleChase sessions, recorded in late November and early December 1973 with Danish bassist Mads Vinding and the American expatriate drummer Ed Thigpen (Oscar Peterson's long-time drummer). \"Subway Inn\" opens the album, one of Jordan's originals, played with the clean, melodic phrasing that defined his style. \"My Old Flame\" and \"Embraceable You\" are ballads. \"Blue Monk\" is the one Monk composition, and Jordan brings his own melodic sensibility to it rather than imitating Monk's angularity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title track \"Two Loves\" and \"Wait and See\" are Jordan originals, the latter a piece he had been playing since the early 1950s. \"I'll Remember April\" gets an uptempo treatment. \"Lady Dingbat\" is another Jordan original. And \"Jordu\" closes the album, the composition that guarantees Jordan a place in the standard repertoire, played here by its composer in a relaxed trio setting nearly 20 years after Clifford Brown made it famous. Jordan's playing throughout is unhurried and lyrical, prioritising melody over display, with a bebop foundation that never hardens into cliché. Ed Thigpen's brushwork is characteristically tasteful, and Vinding (one of the finest bassists Denmark produced) provides a warm, resonant foundation. Nils Winther produced and recorded for SteepleChase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the 1982 Japanese reissue on SteepleChase UPS-2162-S, manufactured by Teichiku Records Co., Ltd.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SteepleChase","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43769595002939,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7673.jpg?v=1783724570"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/duke-jordan.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}