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Kidd Jordan
Edward
'Kidd' Jordan is probably the single most under documented jazz musician of his
generation. A fact that is even more remarkable when you consider that he is also
one of the busiest working musicians in the world. The list of bands and artists he
has performed with reads like a 40-year Grammy program....from Ray Charles and Stevie
Wonder to Aretha Franklin and the Supremes. And the list of jazz musicians he has
performed with goes even wider....from Ed Blackwell and Ellis Marsalis, to Ornette
Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and Cecil Taylor. Fortunately, this fact has not lost
on his appreciative European audiences and was recognized by the French government with a
knighthood for his contribution to the European performing arts.
In addition to his live performances though, Kidd has long
been associated with music education due to his position at Southern University at New
Orleans, his work with children, documented by 60 Minutes, and his educational programs in
Sierra Leone, Senegal and Mali,
A quiet genteel man, Kidd has always
remained faithful to the sounds in his soul. The honesty in his playing is only
matched by a tone that has rarely been heard in the history of his instrument. When
audiences talk about Kidd, sometimes it is necessary to stop and think for a moment...are
they referring to Kidd the prophet, the artist, or the teacher....Fortunately for
all those that are privileged to know and hear him, they are all the same, all one.
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© Photo by Michael Wilderman/Jazz
Visions
Discography on Drimala Records
1998
Southern
Extreme
DR98-001-01
Selected Discography
1983 No Compromise, Improvisational Arts
Quintet. Prescription Records 9002
1988 The New Orleans Music, Improvisational Arts
Quintet. Rounder Records 2066
1988 Debenge-Debenge, Dennis Gonzalez New
Dallasorleansippi. Silkheart 112
1996 Nickelsdorf Konfrontation, Futterman-Jordan
Quintet. Silkheart 143
1997 New Orleans Rising, Futterman/Jordan
Quartet. Konnex 5076
1998
Southern
Extreme, Futterman/Jordan Trio with Alvin Fielder. Drimala Records
98-001-01
1999 2 Days In April, Fred Anderson and Kidd Jordan.
Eremite Records
2001 Kidd Stuff, Kidd Jordan and the Elektra Band
2002, Emancipation Suite #1, Kidd Jordan, Alan Silva,
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