Clifford Jordan

Biography

Clifford Jordan was an excellent inside/outside participant who somehow held his own with Eric Dolphy within the 1964 Charles Mingus Sextet. Jordan acquired his own audio on tenor nearly right away. He gigged around Chicago with Potential Roach, Sonny Stitt, plus some R&B groupings before shifting to NY in 1957. Jordan instantly made a solid impression, leading three albums for Blue Take note (including a gathering with fellow tenor John Gilmore) and touring with Horace Sterling silver (1957-1958), J.J. Johnson (1959-1960), Kenny Dorham (1961-1962), and Potential Roach (1962-1964). After executing in European countries with Mingus and Dolphy, Jordan proved helpful mostly being a head but tended to end up being forgotten since he had not been overly influential or even a pacesetter within the avant-garde. A trusted participant, Clifford Jordan toured European countries several times, is at a quartet going by Cedar Walton in 1974-1975, and during his last years, led a huge band. He documented as a head for Blue Take note, Riverside, Jazzland, Atlantic (a little-known record of Leadbelly music), Vortex, Strata-East, Muse, SteepleChase, Criss Combination, Bee Hive, DIW, Milestone, and Mapleshade.

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