Duke Jordan
piano
Bebop pianist who played in Charlie Parker’s quintet in the late 1940s; at a 2004 master class Barry names him, then still alive, with Hank Jones and John Lewis among the older pianists, none of whom played with the left hand kept up high.
- mentions
- 3
- recordings
- 3
- Barry speaking
- 1
What Barry says
Answering students at a 2004 master class, Barry objects to pianists who keep the left hand high and play single notes in the right. He names the oldest pianists, himself, Hank Jones, Duke Jordan (still alive, he says) and John Lewis: none of them played that way. They learned two-handed chords, so the new way did not come from them.
Artists House Master Class Barry Harris - Student Interviews After Concert8:289:019:33
In his own words
Hank Jones is one of the oldest ... we had Duke Jordan, he’s still alive, and we had John Lewis, and none of us played like that, none of us
Every mention
3 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Artists House Master Class Barry Harris - Student Interviews After Concert
- 9:01
Still alive, one of the oldest pianists, with Hank Jones and John Lewis; none kept the left hand high.
Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York
- 30:14
Speaker unclear
On the Columbia LP I Remember Bebop, which includes Barry, Jordan plays Tadd Dameron (caption ‘Ted Dam’).
Detroit Jazz: Ancient to the Future
- 24:46
Someone else
A Detroit singer recalls Parker playing a Detroit club with Miles Davis, Tommy Potter, Duke Jordan and Max Roach.
In the interviews and notes
Cleary traces the first seven notes of a lick he names after Sonny Rollins’s 1957 Tune Up solo back to Duke Jordan’s piano introduction on Charlie Parker’s original Scrapple From The Apple. Ornette Coleman’s The Blessing later opens with the same shape in Jordan’s rhythm.
Tom Cleary (University of Vermont), Six Degrees of Bud Powell, Part ii-V-I ¶7
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.