From Barrelhouse to Broadway: The Musical Odyssey of Joe Jordan

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Release Date: 1st Oct 2006
Catalogue No: NW80649
Label: New World
Length: 69 minutes

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Joe Jordan: Double Fudge

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Paragon's Pekin Band

Joe Jordan: Nappy Lee

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Lovie Joe

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Bernadette Boerckel
Paragon Singers, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: The Darkey Todalo: A Raggedy Rag

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Take Your Time

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Trevor Smith
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: J.J.J. Rag

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: I Am Waiting For You, Honey Dear

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Bernadette Boerckel
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: The Whippoorwill Dance

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Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Dat's Ma Honey Sho's Yo' Born

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Trevor Smith, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: That Teasin' Rag

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Brother-In-Law Dan

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Bernadette Boerckel
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Pekin Rag - Intermezzo

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: He's Coming Back!: Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Song

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Trevor Smith
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Bouclaire Waltzes

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: The Morocco Blues

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Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Sweetie Dear Fox Trot

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Sweetie Dear: An Afro-American Serenade

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Rick Benjamin, Trevor Smith

Joe Jordan: Happiness

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Bernadette Boerckel
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: The Century March

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: Tango Two Step

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Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Rick Benjamin

Joe Jordan: 1962 Joe Jordan Interview Exerpt

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Joe Jordan

Joe Jordan: 1962 Joe Jordan Interview Exerpt

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Joe Jordan

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Joe Jordan (1882-1971) is the musician who most directly links authentic African-American ragtime with the Golden Age of the American musical theater. An artist of great versatility-he was a gifted pianist, composer, songwriter, arranger, conductor, organizer, promoter, and educator-Jordan was also remarkable for his extraordinary successes in an era of appalling racial discrimination. Threads of his long and fascinating career intertwined and intersected with historical figures as diverse as Fanny Brice, Scott Joplin, Orson Welles, James P. Johnson, Florenz Ziegfeld, "Fats" Waller, W.C. Handy, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Williams & Walker, Ethel Merman, Cole & Johnson, Ginger Rogers, Ernest Hogan, Will Marion Cook, Tom Turpin, and a host of others. Although he had little formal musical training, Joe Jordan composed, orchestrated, and conducted dozens of important musical productions in Chicago and New York, and wrote more than six hundred songs, several of them nationwide hits. He was also a businessman of such keen ability that by the late 1910s he had become one of the wealthiest blacks in the nation. Yet, with the passage of time, awareness of Joe Jordan's music and career has faded. But a study of his rich creative legacy reveals much of importance to current and future generations. It is time for Joe Jordan's amazing story-and music-to be heard once again.

This well-chosen anthology of twenty songs, the first-ever comprehensive survey of Jordan's remarkable output, features several of his most popular hits, including "Lovie Joe," the song that made Fanny Brice a star. The stylish and vital performances are the fruit of exhaustive research by Rick Benjamin and bring this music vividly to life again for today's listeners and scholars of early American popular music and culture.

Double Fudge (ragtime two step, 1902), Nappy Lee (slow drag, 1903), Lovie Joe (from the Follies of 1910), The Darkey Todalo: A Raggedy Rag (1910), Take Your Time (comic song, 1905/1907), J.J.J. Rag (1905), I Am Waiting For You, Honey Dear (waltz song, 1914), The Whippoorwill Dance (c.1921), Dat's Ma Honey Sho's Yo' Born (comic song, 1912), That Teasin' Rag (1909), Brother-N-Law Dan: A Sequel to "Lovie Joe" (1922), Pekin Rag - Intermezzo (1904), He's Coming Back!: Teddy Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Song (1912), Bouclaire Waltzes (1904), The Morocco Blues (1922/1926), Sweetie Dear Fox Trot (1914), Sweetie Dear: An Afro-American Serenade (1906), Happiness (song, 1918), The Century March (1902), Tango Two Step (1912)

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