Kidd Jordan

Edward " Kidd" Jordan ( born May 5, 1935 in Crowley ( Louisiana)) is an American jazz and R & B musician ( clarinet, saxophone ), who also works as a high school teacher. At Jordan's instruments include the tenor, baritone, soprano, alto, C -Melody and sopranino saxophone and double bass and bass clarinet.

Life and work

Jordan's first instrument was a C -Melody saxophone until he switched to alto saxophone, which then - influenced by Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt - became his main instrument. He studied Music Education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, played in dance and rhythm & blues bands and moved to his graduation in 1955 to New Orleans. Later, he also lived in New York and Chicago, where he earned a master's degree from Millikin University and his studies at Northwestern University continued. Here it came to contacts with musicians from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM ), particularly with Fred Anderson, Joel Futterman and Alvin Fielder, with whom he was to collaborate for many years.

From 1974 to 2006 he taught at Southern University in New Orleans; next he played in theater bands and worked with a variety of artists from different musical genres from R & B to free jazz, such as with Big Maybelle, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder as well as with Cannonball Adderley, Ed Blackwell, Ornette Coleman, Dennis Gonzalez, Peter Kowald, Louis Moholo, Ellis Marsalis, Sunny Murray, Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor. In 1976 he organized the first concert of the World Saxophone Quartet.

In 1980 he worked with the Clarinet Summit of Julius Hemphill, Hamiet Bluiett, Oliver Lake and David Murray and later played at The Improvisational Arts Quintet ( No Compromise ). He regularly appeared on the New York Vision Festival on. As a guest musician he also worked on recordings by Larry Williams ( Bad Boy ), Professor Longhair ( Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge), Johnny Adams (Good Morning Heartache ) and the rock band REM ( Out of Time ) with. From the mid- 1990s, Jordan worked increasingly as a manager and member of ensembles of Creative jazz and new music improvisation. After his retirement he worked with Kali Fasteau, in improvisation trio with William Parker and Hamid Drake and in a trio with Joel Futterman and Alvin Fielder. In 2009, he appeared as a guest of honor of the World Saxophone Quartet on the banlieues Blues Festival.

At Southern University, he worked for many years in the field of jazz study program operates; to his students included, inter alia, also Terence Blanchard, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton and Charles Joseph, founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. For the formation he wrote " Kidd Jordan 's Second Line" and also appeared in the 1982 appearance of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band in Groningen on sopranino saxophone with. Jordan also taught in public schools and taught courses in Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone. In 1990, he was the founder of the Heritage School of Music at Southern University. From 1995 on he was ten years artistic director of Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp.

Jordan is also active as a horse breeder. In an interview, he commented " to breed horses is like improvising ... You never know what herauskonmmt there".

With his wife Edvige Jordan, a classical pianist, he has seven children, including the jazz flutist Kent Jordan, jazz trumpeter Marlon Jordan and the singers Stephanie and Rachel Jordan.

Awards

The French Ministry of Culture honored Jordan in 1985 for his life's work as a teacher and musician with the title of Knight ( Chevalier ) of the Legion of Honour ( Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ). In 2006 he was honored by the New Orleanser music magazine Offbeat with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Music Education. In 2008 he received the honorary prize of the Vision Festival for his life's work.

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Albums under his own name

• Kidd Jordan Quartet: New Orleans Festival Suite ( Silkheart )
• Kidd Jordan & the Electric Band: Kidd 'Stuff ( Danjor )
• On Fire (2012 )

Joel Futterman / Kidd Jordan / Alvin Fielder Trio:

• Revelation ( Kali )
• New Orleans Rising ( nexus Records);
• Southern Extreme ( Drimala Records)

Alan Silva / Kidd Jordan / William Parker Trio:

• Emancipation Suite # 1 ( Boxholder, 2002)

Kidd Jordan / Hamid Drake / William Parker Trio:

• Palm of Soul (AUM Fidelity, 2005)

Kidd Jordan / Alvin Fielder / Peter Kowald Trio:

• Trio and Duo in New Orleans ( NoBusiness Records, 2014)